Show Snow College Badgers Down Dixie pixie 7 13 A up fired-up Snow College de defensive defensive defensive de- de unit that put the brakes down hard on Dixie Colleges College's vaunted attack led the Badgers to a 7 13 win over Dixie Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day afternoon on Snow Field The victory was the first one of the fall season for new head coach Ray Odette and his mainly mainly mainly main main- ly freshman team And the loss was the first one in nine starts for the Rebels The game started out on a sour note for the Baders Cliff Hughes a Dixie defensive back intercepted Jim Borlas Borla's pass on the Snow 18 yard line Four plays later Matt Haili Haill crashed over from the four and Ken Anderson kicked the extra point to put the Rebels ahead 7 At this point Snows Snow's defensive unit went to work and for the rest of the afternoon spent much of the time in the Dixie back- back field Although the entire de defense defense defense de- de played well the standouts were probably Jim Eldredge Salt Lake Stan Jones Roy John Ballard Payson and Gary Downey and Mike Gardner Spanish Fork Gardner himself himsel intercepted three Dixie passes The Badgers got into the scoring column early in the second quarter when Borla who played for Carbon High passed to Dale Palmer on the Dixie eight yard vard line Palmer raced in to score and Brad Bake kicked the extra point to make it 7 Later in the same period the Badgers recovered a Dixie fumble on the Rebel 38 yard line and scored six plays later Charles Larry scored from four yards away but Bakes Bake's kick was blocked to make the score read 7 13 f for r Snow at the half The score remained 7 13 throughout the remainder of the game Both teams mounted some good attacks but alert and very aggressive defensive play broke them up Snow had the edge in the statistics getting 10 first downs dO to Dixie's eight Borla Larry Jose and Mike Green were the starters in Snows Snow's offensive backfield and played most of the afternoon Larry was the leading ground gainer It to win was a good one Coach Odette said after the game Our team is a aver very young one and it the victory over old traditional rival Dixie to come of age I thought our offense was much improved and our defense was tremendous It must have thrilled thrill thrill- ed the very large crowd In the stadium The Badgers will be away awa this weekend They will play the University of Utah junior varsity made up of freshman sophomore and junior players Friday afternoon at 2 In Salt Lake City But local fans will get to see seethe seethe seethe the team in action again on Oct 20 when the Utah State University jay come to Snow Field |