Show 1 Utes Gallant In Comeback Try Before Losing 16 To Falcons Heavily favored service school football teams don't scare Utah's In there must be something about the military and its cadets that inspires Redskin But for an illegal substitution penal- ty on a last-second try for a two- point Utah might have tied an undefeated Air Force For the second time in two years Utah rose up in the waning minutes of play to throw real scares into the victory hopes of marching I Against the two-to-three touch- l down favored Air Force crew Sat- e. in the Utes battled the Falcons almost even-steven for three quarters and then when the Air Force scored two touchdowns in the fourth period Utah wouldn't say and came back with two of its own before losing All this was reminiscent of the fourth quarter last year at West Point after Army's coach Blaik bringing those wild-eyed Redskins into my Ute fans recall that Lee Gross-cup's passing had narrowed powerful Army's victory margin to in the final few minutes of spectacular play in that offensive Saturday's game with the Falcons was otherwise different from the Army but it too should be an eye-opener for some who are skeptical about Utah's capacity to play top One difference was the defensive play of Ray Coach Nagel's group against the Air Pursuing the fine goal-line stand traditions of last week's game with the Redskins stopped the Falcons a couple of times in the shadow of their own goal posts during the first It was in the second period that the Falcons broke a scoreless tie with a field goal by George after Utah's defense had halted an Air Force drive on the eight-yard The score stood until both teams' offenses bore scoring fruit in the explosive fourth All four touchdowns in the fourth were set up by Utah got the ball after a short punt on the Air Force but Monk Bailey fumbled after a good gain and the Falcons recovered on their own They moved to the Utah 15 as the third quarter Five plays later Steve Galios drove across for the converted and the Falcons Thirty-five seconds later the Air Force had a the same score they beat Stanford by last The second six came after Stan fumbled on the kick-off return and recovered for the Academy on the Utah Don Kuenzel hit with a pass and he ran it over for But Utah didn't give Dick White recovered a Falcon fumble and Ken Vierra engineered a third-string Redskin drive to scoring territory against the Air Force Utah's first team came in to push over the Bailey Pete Haun passed to Tom Brown for two extra Then came another The Falcons lost it to Bill on the Air Force Grosscup's aerial to Brown gave the Utes the ball on the Falcon Lee sneaked it After the penalty on the illegal Grosscup was rushed badly and smeared before he could get a pass The first quarter was a defensive Closest Utah came to the Falcon goal was the 19 just as the halt The Utes made a bid in third canto when Lee Grosscup threw a pass to Larry good for 28 yards to the Falcon but penalty cut a backfield-in-motion it Bailey was the stand-out runne for Grosscup had to the ball on several pass but completed 8 of 11 passes for 92 For the Falcons was the obvious accounting for 10 of the Air Force Utah 0 0 0 1414 Air Force 0 3 0 1316 Scoring three-yard one-yard pass from Air Force field 15 seven-yard pass from 22 |