Show BOX ELDER TIED FOR THIRD PLACE IN FOOTBALL RACE what will probably be the feature game of the football season in bertg hanx ham will occur here next thursday beginning at 3 p m when coach fer guions team from the box elder high school and dixon capples ogden high machine attempt to settle old rivalries neither team cau can be ba given the edge tor for the contests contest even though box bos elder does rate a little higher in the league percentage column and a great battle must certainly result when these teams line up against each other the box elder team has ha a very good record so tar far tola this season with three victories against one defeat not once since ethe the first league game against east in salt lake has hag box elder been scored 0 d on although this aou would la seem to demonstrate that box eld elder er Is 19 going great guns and should be able to easily trample ogden this is not the case one should remember that two of these victories have been against the leagues two tall tail enders in the percentage column jordan and davis neither of 0 which has been able to score a victory yet this season while the other victory was gained over logan whose team proved to bo be very weak box elder then will vill get its first real test next thursday against a really good team since the early season defeat by east the ogden team has a rating of 0 in the percentage column she has triumphed over davis and provo while east and west have handed her defeats it if comparative scores count for anything agdens rating should be on about a par with box elder tor for she was defeated by east by approximately the same score as was box bos elder and she handled davis in about the same manner as did dox box elder last weekend week end coach kapple left his second stringers in too long against grantsville Grants ville and suffered a defeat in a non league game against that school this should have the effect of making the Ogden ites work very hard to get back into form tor for box elder it Is not beyond tic realm of 0 possibility that box elder will administer a decisive deci defeat to ogden 0 den in the game against logan high here over t two weeks ago the loualta lo calta ani played 1 like champions plays were ro jiin n off with the snap all and precision ot of ni machine achille work the backs hit the line with great force tile the line was a stone wall on defense while tile the work of the backs in running interference was beautiful to see then the local team played like a championship outfit in the more recent game against davis however the work was noticeable ragged several times the davis backs were able to penetrate the heavy box elder line for good gains while forward passes were often hurled over the heads of the DrIg the work of the bees offensively of fensIN was very poor also although several several times ilic backfield men notably earl none hone were able to annex good yardage on rung very poor work was done in running interference it will take mighty good interference running to get tar far against ogden there are arc throe things which may have accounted tor for this ragged play last friday in the first place the boys had been disbanded tor for beet va I 1 cation and had forgotten a good deal ot the law and the tha gospel which had been drilled into their heads by coach ferguson secondly the team was without the services of joe call who did such phe nominal work in reeling off almost yards against logan I 1 in the logan game joe received a sprained ankle which Is still giving him just a little trouble and it was thought best to give him another weeks rest the third factor producing the poor showing against the weak davis team may have been that the team realized only too well how weak davis was and become overconfident as to the results get the team in the right fighting frame of mind put joe call back in the line lineup 11 P and give coach earl a good weeks practice to get the team back to its good old machine form and it certainly can give the ogden grid grinders ders the battle 0 of their lives and possibly send them home hame defeated |