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Show uuii. n i mi -i J.H.H i m Mm li' ii ' " "" " " ' ' "j .U ,V,J sf A terrors ' s?- J V 1 , i' ir cv J J I ijvHf r jk I 1 M m Hi' JfJvi'' i 4 VMf If LI GAINS AROUND END. Rob Jenson, Cedar High School quarterback breaks lose for one of few gains around end of strong Dixie Flyer line. Flyers won contest 50 to 14. Redmen take 50 - M setback at hands of Dixie Flyers The Cedar High School Red-men Red-men know that Dixie had a good team Ibut they are still not so sure that they are as good as the 50-14 score would indicate after the two teams had clashed on the Cedar High School field Friday evening eve-ning to open the 1972 football season. The Redmen came into the contest with a firm belief in their ability to give the Flyers, Fly-ers, the pre-season favorites to win the Region, a battle for that honor. The 50-14 shallacking administered ad-ministered by Dixie to the STATISTICS CHS DIIS First Downs 17 17 Rushing Yardage .... 213 216 Passes 7-12 8-11 Passing Yardage .. 107 219 Fumbles Lost 2 1 Passes Intercepted -0 1 Punts 3-22.3 2-57.5 Penalties 4-30 3-45 Redmen, dampened a few spirits, but those who witnessed witnes-sed the game felt that the score was not an indication of the comparative strengths of the two clubs. The Flyers deserved the victory, there is no question about that. Coach Walt Brooks club seemed to do everything right. They picked up important import-ant yardage when they needed it; they took advantage of breaks and Cedar High mistakes; mis-takes; and they showed the versatility that could make them av strong contender dn the State AA division this season. The Redmen, dispite the licking they took, showed that they have some good material, but that they need to com pensate. Dixie had the greater speed, and they utilized it well. The Flyers relied on their aerial attack to get things rolling and used it for the big yardage gains when they had to. Look at the statistics. Both clubs collected 17 first downs in the game; In rushing the visiting Flyers had 216 yards compared to 213 for the Red-men Red-men and advantage of just three yards. In passing the Redmen hit 7 of 12; Dixie hit 8 of 11. The Redmen had just 107 yards through the air compared to 219 for the Flyers. But that hardly seems enough to account for such a wide scoring margin. The first quarter although not completely typical of the entire game, was an omen of things to come. The Redmen took the opening open-ing kickoff and after three running plays were forced to punt. The Flyers took posession poses-sion on their own 40 yard line. Lewis, the Flyer quarterback connected on a pass to his end Jamison good for 22 yards. Two running plays pushed the Flyers back for two yards loss, then Lewis hit his half-, back Topham coming out of the backfield in the flat and he outran Cedar High secondary second-ary for a 40 yard scoring play. Lewis, on a keeper scored two points on the conversion and Dixie had a 8-0 lead just three minutes into the game. The Redmen took another kickoff with Mark Slack returning re-turning to the Redmen 32. From there, behind the calling of Rob Jenson and the running runn-ing of Steve Moss, Mike Meth-erall Meth-erall and Slack the Redmen moved on a series of 18 plays to the Flyers three yard line only to lose the ball on a fumble. The drive 65 yards took nearly nine minutes to complete. After the fumble the Flyers had only one play from scrimmage before the quarter ended. Net result: First downs: Cedar Ce-dar 5, Dixie 2, yardage gained, Dixie 60, Cedar 65; number of offensive plays, Dixie 5, Cedar 21; Score Dixie 8, Cedar 0. The Flyers ipicked up their second score of the evening in midway dn the second period after a 58 yard punt that rolled rol-led dead on the Redmen two yard line. Cedar took posession poses-sion at that point and drove out to the 37 where they went for a first down on a fourth down and one situation and failed. The Flyers took posession, poses-sion, were penalized 15 yards back to their own 49, but promptly hit two passes to take the ball to the 16 where Tabler cracked over the middle mid-dle and scooted for the T-D. The point after attempt failed and the Flyers took what looked look-ed to be a somewhat shaky 14 to 0 lead into the halftone. Second half turned out to be all Dixie as the Flyers seemed to take complete command com-mand of the game. They took the opening kick and marched 81 yards for a touchdown with K. Ence scoring from three yards out. After stopping Cedar's Ce-dar's first offensive series the Flyers took posession on their own 47 following a Redman punt marched 53 yards on just three plays for another score. The tally was another Lewis to Totoler aerial, bringing the score to 28-0. The first Redman score came just as the period ended. As a matter of fact Moss cracked from four yards out on the final play of the quarter to cap a 85 yard march and a two point conversion gave the Redmen eight points. Fourth period was a scoring spree. Dixie tallied first just four minutes into the period, again on a pass from Lewis to Topham from 21 yards out Again, midway in the quarter the visitors took advantage of an eight yard Cedar High punt to score again marching 45 yards on just two plays. Topham carried to the 36 and K. Tromley scooted 36 yards on the next play to move the score to 44-8. " Dixie did make some mistakes. mis-takes. Near the end of the period per-iod Dixie fumbled at midfield and Hart pounced on the ball for the Redmen to set up another an-other scoring drive. The 50 yard march included 11 plays and the score came on a three yard trap over the middle with Moss again carrying. The point after attempt missed. The score came with just 16 seconds on the clock. ?oi would fcave thought tffet would end it, but it didn't did-n't Dixie took the kick off and had time for one more play, so they heaved the ball deep into Redmen territory. Hart of the Redmen was right there. He went high in the air to bat the ib all down, but he batted it into the hands of Jamison of the Flyers and he was all alone to score with no time remaining. The pass play covered cov-ered 70 yards. i'l |