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Show r I T 1 21- BYU Football Doctors' father, Hal Mitchell gave Coach Edwards his 1st job ByAldon Rachel LaVell Edwards retired aa head football coach at Brigham Young University after 29 yean on a winning note by defeating the UniverM-2aity of Utah, 7 in the final puna of the aeaaon, but hia BYU career begin almost 40yean ago when then-BYcoach Hal Mitchell Sr., who ia the father of Uintah Beam Medical Center doctora, Hal and Mark Mitchell, hired Edwarda aa an aw inU tent coach in 1962. (BYUuaedalast-aecondTscore by third stringquar-terback D -- Brandon Doman to beat the Utea earlier thia month in Salt Lake City.) Hid Mitchell Sr. wan the football coachat BYU from 1961 to 1963, and previoualy he coached the freshman team in 1959-196LaVell waa mainly hired aa a recruiter and waa knowledgeable of the single wingoflrenee. He gave LaVell hia atari, eaid Dr. Hal Mitchell. LaVell hiri coached high achonl football at Granite High School Mitchell, whowaa graduated from Utah State Univeraity where he alao played football, aold ahoea at the Sear store inSalt Lake City to supple-men- t hia income while coaching at Granite. In hia book, "LaVell Edwardt-Buildi-ng a Winning Tradition at BYU, he aaid that he waa offered an aaaiatant coaching job at BYU, and work for Hal a total of two yean. He added, "We didn't win a lot of game but we played a very exciting brand of football. Hal had a great knowledge of the techniques involved in the game cuch aa blocking and tackling. Even the running backs practiced tackling. I thought 1 knew a lot about football when I went to BYU, but after working with Hal awhile, I began to realiae how much I atill had to turn ifl wargoingtobe successful on the college leveL In another book. Airing It Out, Coach Edwarda aaid that Hal'a philosophy on using the single wing offense waa hia at tempt to circumvent the college football status-qu-o that kept struggling programa like BYU (him making inroada into the Big Tima." Edward viewed BYU coaches, Mitchell and Tommy Hudspeth aa invaluable viaionary coaches. BYU waa under Mitchell during hia three yeara aa coach, but even though hia teama potted kiting racorda he along with hia replacement, Hudapeth helped to build a winning tradition, which Edwarda, who replaced Hudapeth in 1972. continued and carried to 2 a 1984 national championship title. Coach Edwarda pve Hudapeth credit for taking a chance on the pasting fame. Edwarda ended hia BYU career with 256 wins, 101 losses, 6 ties. Some key bowl game triumpha were: the comeback arm of 46-4- 5 over SMU in 1960 Holiday Bowl 111 (Jim McMahon to Clay Brown-Ha- il Mary Pam Win It All); 7 1963 Holiday Bowl IV victory over Miaaouri (QB Steve Youngacoree winning TD aa a wide receiver) and 7 1964 national championship win over Michigan at Holiday Bowl VH. He tMitchelDhad losing seasons, but he waa the first coach in the first year of the Western At hletic Conference to be named Coachof the Year in 1962. Hia team wasn't supposed to 21-1- 24-1- have a good season, but they beat Wyoming and Utah-t- he top two teams in the conference, which was one reason he got the honor," commented Dr. Mitchell. Alao in 1962, BYU had its first ever tailback Eldon Fortie, who had hia No. 40 retired by the Coupus and went on to play football in the Canadian League for several yean. He is now a dentist in SL Louis. In 1963 Fortie was named to the Bowl, and wasSports Illuslrateds Player of the Week vs. New Mexico on November 12, 1962. Fortie turn in a super play in what Dr. Mitchell thinks might have been a game against Utah. Fortie was injured, but he came into the game fora 4 and lOplay on the opposing team' 10 yard line. He broke four tackle and got into the end sone to win the game on the last play ofthe game," be said. The tailbiuk is the main man on the offense in the aingle wing, and has the option of running or throwing the ball. Hal Mitchell retired from coaching football, according to Edwarda book, and then went on to coach 1 1 years at Cabrillo Junior College in California where he won a couple of state champions hi pa. He had sons, Scott, quarterback (played on runner-up team), and Mark, defensive end'eorner back, played on his Cabrillo College team. Dr. Hal Big Mitchell, also played college foot ball, waa no longercoaching. Mitchell Sr. invented new style of protective football equipment, which he aold to Rawlings Sporting Good and went to work for them. He became director of research and development. Ha had 25 inventions patented, which included protective equipment for nil football playing positions to improve range ofmotion. He died in 1993. Edwards is the Big Name in BYU football now. In 1962 he was just happy to have a new job on the col lege scene, which allowed him to boot away his part-tim- e job of selling shoes, and gain a valuable learning experience under Hal Mitchell Sr plus a foothold in Cougar footbalL but hia dad had retired and Davenport scores 19 points for SLCC JelTDavenport, a Union High School graduate, scored 19 points in an 84-8- 1 Salt Lake Community College lorn toNeosho County, recently. Game Permits Conservation organizations anticipate raising more than 6860,000 through the sale of 2001 big game conservation permits allocated by the board, Karpowilz said. More than $760,000 was raised by conservation organizations through the tale of big (ptme conservation permits in 2000, he said. Steve Flinders, big game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said pronghorns, elk and deer all benefited from money received last year. Flinders aaid some of the money was used to buy a new pronghorn trap to trap pronghorns on Parker Mountain in southwest Utah. Some of these pronghorns were taken to the Grand StaircaseEsealante National Monument, to start a new pronghorn population there. Elk in the Book Cliffs in east central Utah alao continue to benefit, as conservation permit Kinds are being used to fund an ongoing elk telemetry study there. FGndera said the study is providing biologists with important information about elk distribution and habitat use in the area. The Division also used 2000 conservation permit funds to contrib - Pace 12 UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. December 5. Mitchell said the money was used to help acquire wild turkey from other stales and to trap and transplant wild turkev within Utah. From Ortuber 1999 to October 2000, ute to a mule deer habitat mapping a total of 1,741 turkey found new project thats being coordinated by home in Utah. The conservation permit prothe Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. gram ia beginning to pay for a larger Karpowilz said the money also chunk of our turkey management was used in the Division's moose, program than it ha in the post, bighorn sheep. Rocky Mountain goat Mitchell said. and bison programs. In the past A large increase in the number of year, 140 bighorn sheep, 20 moose wild turkey hunting permits availand 19 Rocky Mountain goals have able for 2001 also means more conbeen transplanted to various areas servation permits will be available. in Utah with the use of conservation Mitchell said the Division estimates permit funds. Extensive aerial sur- as much as $4 1,000 might be raised vey of these species have alao been through the sale oT 2001 wild turkey fiinded with conservation permit conservation permits. dollar. Wild Turkey Permits The board allocated Utah's 2001 statewide wild turkey conservation permit to the Utah Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Foundation. The Utah Chapter of the NWTF also received 55 area wild turkey conservation permits. Sportsmen for Habitat was allocated one area wiki turkey conservation permit. A total of $16,613 was generated and returned to the Division through the sale of 2000 wild turkey conservation permits Inst year, said Dean Mitchell, Division upland game co- ordinator. Baseball camps are scheduled The Rorky Mountain School of Baseball will conduct two Holiday Baseball Camps with one scheduled for December 27-a- ll day at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden (two ), and another age groups one Dwember 28-2- 9 at College of Eastern Utah in Price (age8-12at- 9 8 a.m. to 12 noon and age t1 la 4 pa. both days). For fiirther information call toll free: or website (www rmsbb.com). 13-18- 13-1- Ainsworth quits as golf pro By Aldon Rachele A Brian Ainsworth, golf pro at the Roosevelt Course for 13 yeara. submitted his resignation last week. He will be resigning when hia contract ends December 31, 2000. He had replaced Denny Bearden whowas the pro for several years, and prior to Bearden the pro was Dave Densley. Ainsworth submittedahand-writ-teletter to the Roosevelt City Council that said he plans to pursue other business ventures outside of the are. However, during a phone interview, Wednesday, Ainsworth said, I don't know yet what I'm going to da He added that there ia nothing set in stone as to whether he plans to move or not. - Roosevelt City Administrator, Brad Hancock said, It waa kind of a shork, mdly. We will miss Brian. He's been a fine professional at the course and we certainly wish him and hia family the very beat in his ftituie endeavors. I enjoyed working with him while he was here." Hancock added that plans were to dote the course at the end of last week for the season. Mild weather had allowed play to continue longer that usual. Roosevelt City will be soon advertising for a new pro. Union High School has had several outstanding golf teams through the help of Coach Mike Ross and golf pro, Ainsworth. Several yeara ago Union placed second and this year finished among the top 3-- teams with Judd Larsen taking medalist honors. n f Read The GfegEfl? 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