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Show THE DIXIE SUN FOUR September 25, 1959 Flyers Roll Over Beaver, The Dixie Flyers opened their league play by rolling over the undercontest last manned Beaver Beavers by a 27-- score in a locally-playeDixie too was much it the For Beavers afternoon. power as just Friday the Flyers scored twice in the first quarter and once in each of the second and third periods. Big Leon Fish, 180 pound fullback who ground out valuable yardage with each carry, scored the first touchdown from seven yards out after a previous scoring play had been nullified by a holding penalty. Gordon Hutchings run for the extra point was good. Jerry Neilson, who led Dixies impenetrable forward line, accounted for the second score when he recovered a Beaver fumble in the end zone. Fish scampered over the line for thesecond P.A.T. In the second quarter Brent Stucki set up Dixies third touchdown when he intercepted a Beaver pass on the fifty yard line and fought his way to the 35 before being stopped. On the next play Stucki passed to Ralph Staheli who outran two Beaver defenders to the end zone for the The try for the extra point failed, leaving Dixie on the heavy end of a 20-- score. Beavers lone tally came when they recovered a Dixie fumble on the Flyers 12 yard line. Seven plays later, Beaver finally hit pay dirt. The conversion attempt failed. Hutchings intercepted another wandering Beaver pass and sped 35 yards for Dixies final TD of the afternoon. The P.A.T. was scored by George Stucki. Nearly every man on the local squad saw action as Coach Walt Brooks substituted freely in the final stages of the game. Although. Dixie lacks speed, the school crew has reasonably Tryouts for the Rebelette march- high with a lot of detering unit will be held Monday, Sep- good depth tember 28, at 4:30 p. m. in the mination, and can be counted as a top contender for region honors. gymnasium. Dixie Flyers roster: Ends: Cox, Miss Myrna Hunsaker, adviser to 155; Heaton, 140; Thompson, 145; the select college group, announced Larkin, 170; Hurst, 170; Graff, 130. that any college girl who wishes to Tackkles: Wells, 165; Dawn, 150; Andrus, 170; Leavitt, 170; Larson, try out may do so. 180; Young, 150; K. Frei, 150; and Eleven girls will be chosen as L. Bundy, 160. Guards: Wittwer, Rebelettes. The group will perform 160; E. Hafen, 135; Earl, 150; Neilat college athletic contests through- son, 140; C. Bundy, 160; Bunker, out the year. 150; J. Graff, 145; R. Gubler, 140. Centers: S. Hafen, 150; L. Gubler, Losing a job has put many a 155; Andrus, 165. Backs: Nelson, man on the road to success. 140; Hutchings, 160; Staheli, 145; L. Frei, 140; W. Stucki, 135; Atkin, People who are stuck up seldom 145; B. Stucki, 145; Forbes, 165; stick up for each other. Fish, 185; G. Stucki, 160. d 6 By JEFF HOLLAND Those of you who took in Dixies rout over the Beavers of (naturby ally) Beaver City last Friday saw some top flight football turned inwas our boys for at least the first moments of the game. The action rather enjoyable and the true potential of the high school squad was shown during the feeting moments. One thing that really caught the eye of this corner during the first quarter was the enthusiasm and gusto with which the Flyers assumed their defensive assignments. The sight of five or six Dixie men swarming over every Beaver who looked good to anyone who had ever graced the dared return a kick-of- f halls of Dixie High. Also the defensive tactics displayed against Beavers ground attack proved to be good football and was fairly staunch for the greater part of the game. It was hard to determine the points of the game which would explain the difference between the two teams. U may have been that Beaver had a comparatively poor day and the Flyers were forced to play that kind of ball, or it may have been that Dixie simply over powered them, or again it may have been a little of both. Which ever explanation fills the bill, one item is certain: A 27-victory on only the second encounter of the season, and on the first league battle, is definitely a solid foundation for a team to build a season ofvictories on. It will be interesting to see what the club does from here on in whether it will progress as a working unit or whether we were mislead by this resounding victory. We might mention that CSU met a strong Chaffey Jr. College (Calif.) team on the Cedar City turf last Saturday! evening, and although the Broncos went down to defeat by a narrow margin, they were playing a big, fast team. The CSU men looked very sharp at several stretches of the game. The Broncos are considered strong contenders for the ICAS title. Eat lots of raw beef steak, men, and like I told my Rebels when I was coach in T7 Prime them there muskets for them there Northern bushwackers. I think there's a little Wyatt Earp mixed in these with John Paul Jones but you get the thought. What do you say we attend the Eastern Arizona-Rebe- l game and see whether the Rebs gained any value from the recent loss to Mesa. 6 O.K.? O.K.! 27-- 6 0 Rebeleties Tryout Battle Axe lias Exciting History At Rebel School The Battle Axe, symbol of athletic supremacy between Dixie Junior College and the College of Southern Utah, Cedar City, is one Dixies Rebels, under the able leadership of General Robert E. of the most famous traditions at Arslanian and his aide Stonewall Hunt, are primed and eager for the Rebel school. Saturday nights game with Eastern Arizona. about The Big Grey will be out to even their seasons score, offsetting the 20 The Axe traditionH. began L. Reid, foryears ago when first loss inflicted in last weeks mer instruction at Dixie College, encounter with Mesa College. recognized the great rivalry that howDespite a determined spirit, existed between the two school ever, the Rebels must rank as unand conceived the idea of the derdogs to the Arizona team, which 'ward He felt it would promote recently mauled a scrappy Carbon good snortsmanship, in addition to crew Utah. at Price, College giving the teams a little extra to Dixies power and spirits were fight for in athletic encounters. bolstered bv the return of cowboy At first the axe was exchanged George Andrus, six and in basketball contests only, but feet and 205 pounds of later was exchanged in all athletic fullback. Georae. in his indecision contests. between rodeo life and the gridiron, Both schools have entered into was making Rebel followers a litan Axe Pact which state the govtle nervous. erning conditions concerning this on Big George was an svmhol of victory. The pact will be Dixie Highs 1057 state champion printed in its entirety in a subseeleven and turned in a similar perquent issue of the Dixie Sun prior formance on the Fiver cage squad to the CSU football game. the following winter. He lettered When the axe first came into exlast year as an end on the Rebel istence, CSU was known as the football team. Branch Agriculture College, or Local Rodeo fans cheered to the BAC, the name which first apthunder of Andrus calf roping in on the axe handle. peared last weeks rodeo. This first of the Charles Merkley. past Dixie inpopular sportsmans loves has destructor. now at Logan. Utah, made manded much of his time in recem the first axe. upon the request of years, but it has all been for his Mr. Reid. A short time later it was sheer delight. niven over to BAC when thev beat At the Intercollegiate Rodeo held the Dixie Flyers (at that time both at Snow College last vear. Dixie the college and high school were College conped first place in the known as the Flyers) in a basketdivision. The Dixie con- BIG GEORGE ANDRUS. From ball game. bareback to tingent was comprised of none othLater, Mr. Merklev was again fullback. er than George Andrus. called on to make another axe when Dixie Faces East Arizona pile-drivin- all-stat- ts hard-ridin- g pile-drivin- g the original was broken in a mild scuffle following a Dixie basketball victory at which time the BAC followers were reluctant to transfer the symbol to the St. George school. This second axe made by Merkley is the one presently hanging in the show case in the student lounge. Since its beginning many strange and humorous things have happened to the Battle Axe. Most common occurance was the sudden disappearance of the axe if the defending school lost the contest. Other incidences include the appearance of a second axe, the different ways in which the axe has been exchanged, and long and drawn out periods of time while college officials located the axe. One time it was discovered in Salt Lake City, another on the campus of Snow College. Since the Cedar Citv school changed from BAC to CSU and the nickname for Dixie changed from Flyers to Rebels, inscriptions on the handle have undergone changes too. Five years ago Dixie took the lead in establishing a pact between ''ould withstand the tests given to the two Southern Utah schools that the tradition. Under the then Dean of Students at the Dixie College. Arthur F. Bruhn. a pact was drawn ud which was a revision of previous pacts. This has proven to be a lasting standard of procedure and conduct for CSU and Dixie |