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Show Cedar High Team Loses Region Football Title To Dixie Flyers The Dixie H.gh School won the Region Slx-nmn Football title Monday Mon-day by triming the Cedar Hed.iun In u touh game placed In .l.o mud ut at. George. The final store wis 48 to 20. but ttie game was much closer than the scote Mould Indicate. With Dixie leadln 34 to 20 ufter at least three tough bleaks had robbed1 Cedar City of scores, Coach Bai.ey threw in all his Redmen subs and the Flyers ran up their score with two touchdowns in the final minutes min-utes of play. The victory gave the Dixie team the Region title and " chance to play for the state championship, and forced the Cedar team into a play-off game with Roosevelt high in the Eastern division to determine Dixie's oDDonent in the state tilt. The game will be played at Roosevelt Roose-velt Friday afternoon, and the winner win-ner will meet Dixie next Wednesday If Cedar wins the championship gamp will be played on the B. A. C. field here. Coach Bailey and fifteen sfiuad members left this morning for the Uilitah city expecting one of the toughest games of the season because be-cause of the record the Roosevelt team lias made. The Rough Riders have lost but one gan' during the season, und have won some vd'y Impressive victories. Each of the three teams left In the championship race have lost one game, Roosevelt to Alterra, Cedar to Dixie and Dixie to Hurricane. II Cedar cun win tomorrow the Red-men Red-men will have a chance to turn the tables on Dixie as the Flyers did with them' in basketball last spring, when Cedar won the Region title but lost to Dixie in the state tournament. tour-nament. The game in St. George was played on a sloppy field, made worse by a' drisltng rain that fell throughout the game, and became almost a downpour between halves. In spite of the mud both teams played brilliantly, with Alex Milne' of Cedar and Danny Hafen of St Oeorge planning as sensationally as any high school grlddcr seen in the state in many a day. Frel and Burgess also looked very good for' Dixie, while Pace Webster and Gall Woodbury did soma excellent work for the Redmen. Cedar scored first when Milne passed to Gall Woodbury, but Dixie soon tied It up when Hafen scored after a pass, Frel to Wodward, had put the ball In scoring position. Frel's kick put Dixie In the lead 8 to 6. This was Increased to 14 to 6 before the hulf end when Hafen scored again. The Redmen missed two chances to tie up the score, once when a pass was intercepted on Uie goal line, and again when a pass was knocked out of a Redman's Red-man's hands while standing In the end zone. Cedar tied the score on the third play of the second half, when Alex Milne recovered a fumble and raced 75 yards to the goal line, and Darwin Dar-win WoodLury drop kicked for two extra points. Hafen asaln put Dixie! In the lead, scoring two touchdowns j on long runs, and Frel converted af- ter the first. Trailing 28 to 14 Cedar 1 mlcd another chunoc ;to score j when they funiolcd on the three-j yard line. Dixie scored again before Alex Milne got Cedar's third score, j With the score standing at 34 I to 20 and the minutes running out . i Bailey sent In his third and fourth stringers and the Flyers pushed over: two more scores. i I |