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Show CSU T-Birds Lose Final Encounter To Weber Wildcats on Local Field UNOFFICIAL STATISTICS CSU Weber First Downs 13 12 Rushing Yardage 118 109 Passing Yardage 140 91 Passes 12-29 10-22 Passes Intercepted by 1 1 Punts 2-39 3.28.3 Fumbles Lost by 3 1 Penalties Against 70 60 For the fourth time this season sea-son the College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds won a statistical battle but lost the battle of scores as they were defeated 14 to 0 by the Weber College Wildcats Wild-cats in the final meeting of the two schools on the Junior college level. Next season Weber College will move out of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Collegiate Athletic Confer-erence Confer-erence and go into an independent independ-ent program in the four-year college col-lege level. For Coach Bruce Osborne and his crew It was the final game of the season and it left the Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds with a record of seven losses and no wins and one tie. The Wildcats capitalized on a recovered fumble and a defense lapse in the opening minutes to push over the first touchdown of the game and came back with a sustained drive midway in the period for a second score and a quick 14 to 0 lead. From that point on the Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds took over but could not push over the scores to catch the Wildcats and the game ended as did the first period. 14 to 0. On the first series of downs the T-Birds moved from their own 11 yard line out to the 31 and a first down before Dennis Bullock, at quarterback, lost control con-trol and fumbled. Weber pounced pounc-ed on the ball on the 29 yard stripe and in four plays moved for the first score of the game. The scoring play was a 16 yard pass play from Dick Pruitt to fullback Frank Bentley which caught defensive halfback Scott Calllster napping. Bentley took the ball in front of Callister near the sideline, turned inside and stepped into the end zone for the TD. Duffy Deaver booted the extra ex-tra point. Following the klckoff after the touchdown CSU failed to move and Phil Anderson put the Wildcats Wild-cats into their own territory for the first time with a 46 yard punt. Weber took the ball on their own 30 and marched back down the field for a second score on a sustained 70-yard drive, the only sustained drive of the entire game by either team. Earl Bloomquist, sophomore halfback, did most of the ground gaining as he picked up gains of 3, 6, 6 and 15 on successive carries. An offside penalty nearly stopped the drive on the 11, forcing the ball back to the 15 but Bloomquist Bloom-quist on a cross buck hit through the line and hit for the sidelines side-lines and paydirt for the score. Deaver's kick was again good and the score read, Weber 14, CSU 0. The second quarter of play was dominated by the Thunderbirds. As the period opened Weber had a first and 10 on the CSU 25. Four plays later they gave up the ball on the 24. CSU began a march that took them to the Wildcat 44 where a fumble again stopped the CSU march. Weber gave their only fumble of the game four plays later and the T-Birds again went on the march to the 30 yard stripe of Weber before a Denaltv stonnod them. Giving up on downs Weber went to the air only to have Jim Jensen intercept and return the ball to the Weber 20. A partially partial-ly blocked pass by Bullock was then picked up Weber to stop another CSU scoring threat. During Dur-ing the quarter the Wildcats were held to Just one yard on the ground and only one first down. CSU picked up 47 yards in the air in the quarter and four first downs but never penetrated the Wildcat 20 yard line. Second half of play was dominated dom-inated by the Thunderbirds and midway in the third quarter they moved to the Wildcat 12 yard line on a pass from Bulloch to Gary Hone that covered 26 yards. Bulloch was thrown for a loss on iiie nt-Ai play, went io iiie ail for the next two, failing to connect con-nect and on an attempted pass found halfback Wilding thrown for another loss to give the Wildcats Wild-cats possession. In the fourth period of play neither team threatened. CSU advanced to the Wildcat 23 for Its deepest penetration of the period and Weber recovered a third T-Blrd fumble on the CSU 28 but could not take advantage of the break. Along the line for the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds some outstanding performances per-formances were turned In by big Jim Allen, Scott Gordon, Ed Gul-Hford, Gul-Hford, Ken Mackay, Cal Hair. Cardon Dalley, Ron Bailey and Steve Cahoon. Bulloch did most of the offensive offen-sive quarterbacking, with Gary Hone, Jim Wilding, Son Sudbury. Jerry Bennett, Scott Calllster and Phil Anderson working hard in the backfield. Defensively Keith Roberts was a standout In the CSU secondary. |