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Show T-Birds Clipped By Stalwarts Of Bakersfield Stotistics CSU Bakersf. First downs . 5 18 Yardage Rushing 22 376 Yardage Passing 18 31 Passes 38 1-3 Passes Inter, by 0 2 Punts 8-31.3 4 26.5 Fumbles lost by 1 0 Penalties Against 21 40 A completly outmanned College Col-lege of Southern Utah Thunder-1 bird football team took it on the chin for the second successive week as they were defeated Saturday Sat-urday evening 69 to 0 by the strong Bakersfield Renegades at Bakersfield. Calif. Playing before a crowd of 13,-331 13,-331 people the Tunderbirds were never able to initiate a drive against the stronger California Club and the greater portion of the game was played deep in the CSU territory. The Renegades of Bakesfield took possession of the ball 15 times during the course of the game. Of those times they scored scor-ed on 10 occasions, were forced to punt four times and were in possession on the CSU 40 yard stripe when the final gun sounded. sound-ed. The Thunderbirds of CSU had possession for 13 times during. ' the game. Only on three plays did they ever control the ball in Bakersfield territory with the furthest penetration o the Bene- j gade's 44. In the first period of play the I T-Birds never advanced beyond their own 33. In the second per-1 iod they moved to the Bakers-1 field 46 when they picked up their first two first downs of the game in the best series ofj plays of the evening. In the third period the Thun-1 derbirds had possession on the! Renegade's 44, the deepest penetration, pene-tration, as a result of a personal foul. On two other occassions they moved only to the 23 and 30 yard stripes in CSU territory and in the fourth period the CSU crew never advanced beyond their own 40 yard stripe. Bakersfield took the opening kickoff and marched on four plays 77 yards for the first score of the game with Clinton Chilton taking a reverse and running it 57 yards for the touchdown. Following Fol-lowing the kickoff a CSU fumble was recovered by Bakersfield on the CSU 38 and on the fifth play, Jones of Bakesfield punched punch-ed over the TD from three yards out. That ended the scoring in the first period. As the second pe riod opened the Renegades had taken a punt and were on their own 37 yardl line. In eight plays they had, marched the 63 yards for the fourth score of the game and, midway in the period a 37 yard j march in nine plays paid off fori the hosts for a 28 to 0 halftime1 lead. I It was in the third period that the Renegades really went wild,; with four touchdowns. The first drive of 38 yards was capped with a six yard plunge by Patter-, son and a pass interception was made by the Renegades on the I CSU 22 and run back for the second sec-ond TD. CSU lost possession midway mid-way In the period on the Bakersfield Bakers-field 48 and one of the few passes by the Renegades was good for 31 yards to set up the third touchdown o the period with Chilton scoring from five yards out to cap the drive. Late In the period CSU was forced to punt and Craven hauled haul-ed the pigskin in on his own 4C and raced 54 yards for the fourth score of the period. Two tallies were made in the fourth period, one a 20 yard drive and the other a 40 yard drive in six plays. Although the contest was a one-siiled event several of the CSU linemen turned in commendable com-mendable performances, including includ-ing Rodney Thayne, Ken Maekey. Cardon Dalley, Ron Eaiit, Karl Ingram, John Crew, Darnell Rjeves, Charlie Bell, Scott Callis-ter Callis-ter and Jim Marshall. |