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Show Cedar Loses Title Game to Dixie Playing alert, heads-up football the Dixie high school walloped the Cedar High school Redmen 30 to 8 . in a game played at St. George last Wednesday, to win the State Six-man Football championship. The Redmen defeated the Flyers 8 to 6 for the regional title, but Coach Walt Brooks' Dixie team won the right to meet the Cedar team again by defeating Roosevelt 36 to 6. An epidemic of sickness which hit the Cedar squad a couple of days after the regional game, weakened the Redmen's chances of giving Coach George Cooper a state tltle In his first season at the local school. Three regulars, Alex Milne, Ward and Doug Mld-cUeton, Mld-cUeton, spent most of the week before be-fore the game, and a number of others were suffering from colds and other ailments. The squad was so badly hit, that Coach Cooper was unable to hold a regular scrim mage between the regional and state title games. A series of disheartening breaks, which the heads-up Flyers were quick to take advantage of, cost the Redmen dearly. Two Intercepted passes, a fumble, a blocked kick, and a penalty which cost the Cedar Ce-dar team a touchdown, led directly to four of the Dixie scores. The Dixie team scored early In the first quarter, wTien Gam Stucki went over the goal line, but the teams battled evenly throughout the ' first quarter. In the second period tough luck struck the Red-men, Red-men, a blocked kick and a fumble putting Dixie In a position to score twice, Mark McAllister running the Dixie 8Core up to 18 points. Cedar ?ot back Into the game when Alex Milne scored a touchdown and Darwin Woodbury added two points with a drop kick. At this point the toughest break of the game hit Cooper's team. An Intercepted pass had put Dixie on Cedar's six yard line, but on the next play Ward Mlddleton scooped scoop-ed up a Dixie fumble nd raced to a touchdown, only to have JJie score nullied by an offside penalty. Instead of giving cedar a score the ball was given to Dixie on the Cedar Ce-dar one, and the Flyers scored on the next play, makln? the score 24 to 8. instead of 18 to 14, and the game was won and lost right there. , Dixie added another touchdown In the final period to run Its score up to thirty points. Dixie Cedar Truman le W. Mlddleton Cannon re D. Mlddleton Wittwer c Rice Stucki qb Sherratt Hafen hb Grames McCalllster hb Milne Substitutions: Dixie Sullivan, e, Paxman, c; McMullln, hb; Esplin, hb. Atkln, hb. Cedar Hackett, e; Halght. c; Urle. qb; Woodbury, qb; Hunt hb; Webster, hb. |