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Show Cedar Redmen Defeat Delta Rabbits. 26 to 13 Cedar High School Redmen made up with a series of four long touchdown plays for what they lacked In passing defense Wednesday afternoon to rack up a 26 to 14 victory over the Delta Rabbits In a game played on the STATISTICS CH DH First downs 13 12 Rushing yardage 361 135 Passing yardage 82 143 Passes 3-10 8-16 Passes intercepted b 2 2 Penalities against 45 20 Fumbles recovered by 3 2 local turf on a chilly September Septem-ber afternoon. Ron Prince walked off with top honors for the afternoon with two bowling touchdown runs of 58 and 48 yards while Phil Yergensen Yer-gensen chalked of a 72-yard gal-lup gal-lup and took a lateral on the tail end of a pass sequence for another an-other 28 yard touchdown run. Take to the Air Delta Rabbits found their most effective attack against the Red-men Red-men through the air lanes, attempting at-tempting only 16 passes but connecting con-necting for eight and a total of 153 yards. Neither of the Rabbit'sl touchdowns came via the air, however, but both scores were set up with passes. The Rabbits scored first in the opening quarter of the game, the first time they had possession. Cedar bogged down on the mid-field mid-field stripe after a series of three fumbles and a run back of the punt by Jim MeCormick of Delta to the Redmen 45 got the visitors off to a good start. After being penalized back to their own 49 the Rabbits took to the air with a pass completion that moved the ball to the Red-men Red-men 37 yard line. On the next play Russell Black moved six yards deeper into Redmen territory terri-tory to the 31. On the next play from scrimmage Sterling Church at quarterback bootlegged around the right end and then pitched out to MeCormick coming around at the last second and he -vent all the way into the end zone for the first score. Black bucked over for the extra point and a 7 to 3 lead. Touchdown lun Redmen bounced right back and following the kickoff, which was returned to the 28 by Ron t'rince, t'hil Yergensen cut otf tackle and hit for the sidelines and a 72 yard touchdown jaunt that was nearly stooped by Delta Defenders on about the 20. Yergensen Yer-gensen went in, however, and F.rie Gardner kept on the try for extra point to tie the game up at 7-all. In thr opening play of the second sec-ond quaiter Prince took a hand-nff hand-nff into the middle of the line and before the Rabbits could col-loot col-loot themselves he was into the secondary for a 58 yard touchdown touch-down run. The try for extra point was missed. The Rabbits were .stopped on the following series of downs and a bad kick gave the Redmen possession on their own 45. Successive Suc-cessive running plays by Gardner, Gard-ner, Prince and a 20 yard gain by Yergensen set up the next touchdown play on the 28 yard line. The pass pattern that scored went from Gardner to Sheldon Bowler at end in the flat, and he In turn lateraled to Yergensen Yergen-sen who went all the way to give the Redmen a 19 to 7 lead. Near Pay Dirst The Redmen again moved into a threatening position after an exchange of fumbles only to have a 25 yard run by Gary Anderson An-derson nullified by an off-side penalty. The Redmen gambled on a fourth down and 30 yards to go situation and Gardner back to pass was trapped all the way hack to the Cedar 45 yard line. Delta moved to the 32 on a series ser-ies f running plays then again t.x.k to the air with Church hitting hit-ting Mi-Cormick on a pass r;ood f"r 22 yards and a first and ten situation on the nine yard line. Four plays later on a reverse !Oi:,w Jackson went into tiie end one for ft Delta TD and a half time score of 11? t" 13. Only other touchdown of the game came midway in the third period when Trinee again found n hole In the middle of the Delta line and scamrrcv' 47 yards for pay dirt. Gardner again carried f r the extra point. Remainder of the game was played within the 30 yard lines as both teams fail od to generate a major drive. |