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Show "TV . ijr Utah . . . . Kansas j BYU -. .- .13 Wyoming. . . IS Ariz. State . . 13 Arizona , 28 Washington . 23 Minnesota . . 20 Indiana . . v . 42 7 Michigan St. Nebraska Michiganrlfr Ttl 14 ItaliforniO: Iowa State Notre Dome . 24 Cots mm 74 32-Wa- sh. : VP olCalif.. 1 . . . 41 6 Iowa . . ...22 . . Oregon .128 Alabama . . . J3T ; Okla. Statp : .1 0 . . 29 . ., . State . . 35; State v 7 ' .lOClemsoirfrrl 0 o . . Mississippi Pfe Outplay 'Opportunist' Redskins in Thriller On d Field 1 It 1 J4 . oirt:v Jed . Rain-Soake- By JOE WATTS touchdown which tied the score. Herald Sports Editor. Only Field Goal The Utah Pigskins built their house of stone, and the BYU Cougars huffed and puffed, and huffed and puffed, and finally blew the house down, but still win 3 just, escaped with a by the hah of their chinny-chi- In the second quarter Dennis f Patera booted his one success" ful field goal from the 25 yard line to give the Cougars a 10-- 7 lead at halftime. It also put tne Lougars in the diver's seat, and they stayed there through-ou- t " the game. The yictory for BYU was the Top Rippee, who couldn't be hird .straight over the Utes, a more aptly named, ripped for plateau tor the BYU rec 130 yardr in 25 carries Jahia ord books, and it was no fluke. first starting performance in a In fact, it was a fluke that it Cougar uniform: He was possi--' was so close. bly jhe outstanding backfield performer of the game, although The game was played in Marc Lyons, Terry Sanford, and- storm the for drenching...rain final two, and a half quarters wany HawKins also turned in before 32,641 fans. The field excellent running performances for the surprising BYU ground becamevery muddy in the final "" stages of the game and it be attack. TheweLweamer forced the came bard to distinguish uni out their of Cougars traditional form numbers because of the mud. Thousands of fans gaye passing game into a running game and it produced 377 yards, up the ship for drier shores. nearly nail of what the Cougars Second Half had compiled in all other games " t cumoinea uus year. half the second Throughout . j v Successful the Cougars held a 10-- 7 lead Play and were continually pounding , The quarterback option play at the Utah door, but the stub worked very effectively for the born Utes wouldn't give in. Cougars with Lyons gaining 81 Finally with 42 seconds remain. yards in 11 carries and Sanford TomJU.pee getting 89 in 12 carries. iing crashed into the Ute end zone It was a team victory for the with the clinching touchdown Cougars and it is hard to single to give the Cougars a 17-- 7 lead. out a game hero. Coach Tommy Hudspeth then Rippee was certainly impressent in a sea of clean jerseys to sive, but the offensive line of handle the BYU kickoff to the Monte Squires, Dick Theimann, Utes, and if anyone was wor Richie Lopez, Max Newberry, ried about those uniforms get and Max Huber were' opening ting dirty they worried need gaping holes in the Utah line, which was very instrumental in lessly. Utah's Tom Fowler, Lehi High School graduate play-- the successful BYU running 17-1- n- . , - T " 1 ; oneclocr w r A A SEA OF UMBRELLAS replaced fee usual gay colorful attire football fans usually display at grid games as Saturday's murky skies dumped rain by the bucketful on spectators at the BYU-Uta- h game. Those who braved the storm Sidelights on Splosh Cot-Inju- n - o - and remained m their seats throughout the game were re warded by a flurry of action In the dosing minute of play that saw two touchdowns cored, one by each team. (Photos by Mark I Rigtrup) , . i ing bofftrw 'Unearned' But What a Run! T By RAY SCHWARTZ Both Utah and BYU iad play- er injuries that hurt their cause Cougar Saturday In ' Stadium. ; " Simonson and Jack Jerry Gehrke of Utah reportedly suffered shoulder injuries, before the end of the first half, while BYU's Perry Rodrigue suffered what appeared to be a leg injury in the third quarter. Gehrke is Utah's No. 1 quarterback. Gehrke and Simonson went off the field under their power but Rodrigue had to be carried off the field. ' Rodrigue was put on a stretcher at the sideline and carried into the Cougar dressing rooms. ' Gehrke got back in the game with a little over five minutes left to play in the battle. rain-soak- ed Although the rain came heavily during halftime both . the bands carried on heroically in potting on then shows during the fatermis-"-slo- n. And both turned ' in creditable performan c e despite the elements. Craig SmithT while trying to punt early in the second half, got a low pass from center and : - their forces to play the Star Spangled Banner. After the Cougars scored the first touchdown on a pass from Marc Lyons to Phil Odle Mow ing the opening kickoff, one press box observer said, "Well, we've proved the Utah defense no good, now we find out how BYU's On the kickoff" after BYU's first touchdown JUck Dixon, a defensive tackle, lowered the boom but good on Utah's kick- off return man, Charlie Smith. They collided -- headon while traveling full tilt It was one of the hardest col lisions, seen in the Cougar Sta dium this year, but both players jumped right op apparently none the worse the crash. - - After Ga7 Barker of College Grid Scores " , a "roughing the KicKer penary West Michigan 42 Marshal Oklahom 7 Missouri 0 with a eood job of "acting." Both BYU and Utah bands participated in the pre-ga- me show. The Ute Marchmoved onto the Band ing LSU 17-1- -- . I . However, the Cats held a that point and Jim Whitely's field goal try on fourth down Tennessee Defeats was no good. - -A person didn't have to be standing or sitting outside to r tell when it started to rain in III! Willi tit the second period. Both ', the east and west stands and tem '. . porary bleachers behind the north and south end zones be BATTLING FOR an airborne ball are BYU's Bobby Roberts came a sea of (right) and Raj Grout 4 Utah. Roberta broke up the Ute umbrellas. .pass play, t - -- 4 multi-colore- KNOXVTLLE. Term. fUPIl - Fourth-ranke- d Tennessee called on its passing ace Dewey War ren, just returned from the in jury list, and kicking specialist to lead it to &an 4 win Saturday! over tough fired-u- p Louisiana State in a key battle for the Southeastern Conference lead. Kremser gave the Vols then winning margin late , in the fourth period with a field goal. Warren scored once seven-yar- d on run and tail back Walter Chadwick scored another touchdown on a'siX' yard plunge. sparked, earlier by i isu d kickoff return by Sam my Grezaffl, was only 36 yards sway from tying it up with 34 seconds left in the game but kkker Roy Hard missed his field goal attempt wide to the d . Kansas 28 Iowa St 14 Minnesota 20 Michigan IS Purdue 41 Iowa 22 Citadel 21 East Carolina Florida Vanderbilt 27 19 22 14 Houston IS Mississippi Brown 7 Colgate 0 Peon St. 29 Syracuse 20 Columbia 24 Rutgers 13 Yale 41 Cornell 7 Princeton 28 Penn 14 Dartmouth 23 Harvard 21 Wake Forest 20 N. Carolina 10 Tennessee 17 Louisiana St 44 North Carolina SL 28 Duke 7 Alabama 13 Clemson 10 North Texas 34 Cincinnati 14 1 Miami (O.) 9 Bowling Green ! Indiana Pa. 23 Slippery Rock 7 umisvme Z4 Wichita St. 17 Oklahoma St. 10 Colorado 7 field first and formed a "U" as it played the Redskins' Washington 23 California 6 fight song, "Utah Man Am, Oregon St 35 Washington St 7 Southern California 28 Oregon 6 V" The Cougar band then Brigham Young 17 Utah 13 U. of Pacific 34 San Jose 14 marched onto the field and th two bands combined Idaho 28 Parsons f! . a 7-- 2-- PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, , 1967 con-tentio- 100-yar- 10 defense Bobby Roberts intercepted a Utah pass on the BYU 38 yard line midrway through the fourth quarter to kill a threatening Utah rally. yCougar Fumble utafonnsback Utah had gained good field on the field to receive the Utah kickoff and mey rot-ab- le io l8iaoa afterpunting grind out the clock to win the down in their own end zone and few plays later recovered a ball game. Terry Sanford fumble on their Deep In Territory own36. JThe - interception - by that drive, , but The Cougars pounded deep Roberts-kille- d Into Utah territory relentlessly moments later the Utes penethroughout the ball game. They trated into BYU territory for were inside the Utah' 85 yard the first time in the second half line 12 times, inside the 25 yard on a pass interference penalty line 11 times, inside me 20 that put the ball on the BYU 40. " yard line 10 times, and inside However, another timely inter the ten yard line six times, and ception, this time by Terry Col- yet managed to score only two son, killed that drive and start ed the Cougars on their-fina- ltouchdowns and a field goal Dennis Patera got-- a real touchdown march. Dick Banky and Leo Presley workout in the field goal de were also impressive on de partment as he tried five times and made one goodrwhicn actu- fense. Banby played one of his : best games of the year and ally proved to be the difference Presley was playing his same' in the game score. balL consistent hard-nose- d BYU set the tone for the entire Few . Passes game by completely dominating BYU four tried only passes play during the first quarter. BYU scored two touchdowns in the second half and complet but one was for Utah, made ed only one. The change of nine first downs compared to system made Phil Odle and one for Utah, rolled up a total Casey Boyett decoys throughout ouense of 160 yards compared the second half. Odle wound up " to 31 for Utah, and yet the with four receptions for 43 yards score at the end of thelperiod andlrae touchawandJByetL was 7 caught three for 35 yards. The Cougar - victor- y- leaves Early Score.. ti them with a 1 WAG record The Cougars took the opening and the loss for Utah was the kickoff and with Marc Lyons second in league play, which n, them from title at therthrottles rolled 79 yards eliminates ' " ; in six plays for an impressive opening score. Lyons completed Injuries two passes to Casey Boyett for Utah's Jack Gehrke suffered 12 yards each tune, and then shoulder injury in the ball got loose on a 24 yard gallop game and missed most of the on a quarterback keeper. final quarter. Jerry Simonson, The scoring play came from Ute linebacker, suffered a shoul 21 yards out when Lyons con der separation and will be lost nected with a perfect pass to for the remainder of the season. Phil Odle on a down and out BYU's Perry Rodrigue was pattern. Odle has made some injured in the contest also, and unbelievable catches in his was carried from the field on three years at Cougarville, and a stretcher. He had a serious that one ranks right alongside leg injury and could be lost for the others. He caught the pass the remainder of toe season for over his shoulder right on the the Cougars. end zone flag despite three man Jim Rees. a Provo lad in a coverage on the play. (Later in Utah uniform, turning in a fine the game Odle Came up with for the Redskins with two . game another sensational reception, a pass receptions for 19 yards' one hand turn around grab.) each time. BYU Late in the first quarter again penetrated deep into Utah Statistics of the Brigham territory. With a third and goal Young University of Utah foot situation on the Ute three yard ball game: line Marc Lyons had Phil Odle BYU Utah 24 9 open in the end zone, but the First downs ; toss was not quite high enough Rushing yardage 37, 3i and Gary Barker; playing the Passing yardage 121 94 " 249 85 play perfectly for the Utes, pick Return yardage ed it out of Odle s hands and Passes 2 447: raced 100 yards for the Ute Punta d' 17-1- Navy 22 Pittsburgh 21 He feH down in the process and Holy Cross 38 Buffalo 25 tried to get the officials to call Army 24 Stanford 20 the start of Saturday's BYU- Utah football game. Mr. Sandgren wrote the BYU fight song, "Rise and Shout the Cougars Are out." the BYU 12. r iirfyiagamt,. On bunch-of-dirt- Jim Rees. former Provo High athletic star and now tight end for Utah, caught two consecutive passes in the first five minutes of the second quarter as the Utes moved to - is." The Cougars stopped The Utes cold on the Redskins' first series of play. just Coach Mike Giddings went along with the act and protested vehemently to a couple of the officials but they refused to be taken in bv the act Crvde D. Sandgren. chief counsel for BYU. had the honor lighting the flame on top of the Block Y at the north end of the Cougar Stadium before Utah intercepted one of Marc Lyons- '- passes and raced 99, yards untouched for a touchdown near the close of the first quarter, one observer remarked: "That's what you call an ' unearned run )vymm for the enemy, dashed 90 yards for a touchdown to make it 17-with 23 seconds remaining on the clock. Nary Cougar got dirty, but there were a s c r. , ngat Warren, out with a knee in jury since midway of the Auburn game, came on late in the first period after starting quar terback Bubba Wyche, star of Tennessee wins against Georgia Tech and Alabama, was unable to move the team against tough Tiger defense. ' Navy Squeaks Past Pitt 22-2- 1 - PITTSBURGH (UPI) Church, whose missed John extra point attempt nearly made him the game's goat kicked a 32- yard field goal in the fourth quarter Saturday to bring Navy JACK GEHRKE, (14), Utah's quarterback, d Idn't get rid of the ban fast enough on mis a come from behind 2241 vic play and Is hauled down by an unidentified B YU defender in a bit of action from Saturday's d tory over Pittsburgh. , game. The Cougars won their thi rd straight game from the Utes rain-soake- 17-1- 3. I |