Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-20 | Page 19 | Weber Wins Close Game from Idaho

WEBER WINS CLOSE GAME DAME GA E l FROM IDAHO Tech Tigers Rally in Final Half But Fail Pail to Over Over- Overcome Overcome Overcome come Lead College courtiers after y piling up a 11 21 to 9 score In inthe Inthe the first halt half last night In their contest at st the W Weber ber gymnasium were forced to the limit to trim the snappy Idaho Tech quint of 31 to 25 2 Tho The Wildcats played o tI smart brand of ot basketball In the first 20 minute period sensational long dIstance caging by Irvine and aiding the Purple In their point scoring The Idahoans mis missed ed a a number ot of ups set In this frame framo and had poor luck on a number of an and l long shots At tho the opening o ot of the second halt the Tigers came bi hack ck witha with II a rally that came camo within four fourpoints fourpoints points ot of placing the teams In a deadlock After Arter eight minutes of play the score stood 23 to 9 19 for Weber Coach Merlin Stevenson substituted substituted Stratford for tor at th this Is st stage go ot of the battle to give gl Instructions From the manner In lii which tho the Wildcats traveled In the remaining time the plans of o Stevenson undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly were carried out to the let let- letter letten let letter ter ten Captain Ray nay PrIce ot of o the tIle locals vas T forced from the tha game late In the closing period via the per per- personal foul toul route and Randall Handall con con- concluded con concluded eluded the game at center Budge Dudge and Clark dark tor for the locals each were cl charged ored up with h ha hI a I Three men lUen were outstanding for tor Tech Richie as center was the kingpin for tor the visitors while Thompson an and play play- played played ed cd brilliantly on the guard line Richie demonstrated to the tho sat sat- satIsfaction sat satisfaction of ot a large largo crowd that he knows how to parade on the cage cago court His pivoting was beautiful and his all around team teamwork teamwork teamwork work colorful For the Weber eber five Joe Irvine trotted homo home with Individual hon hon- honors hon honors ors Besides playing a II remark remark- remarkable remarkable remarkable able rustling game Irvine also led all alt of the players In scoring with 14 points One ot of his shots In the first half from a difficult anglo brought the fans tans to their toes and Price also per per- performed performed per performed formed well for the local hoop hoop- hoop The victory last night gives the an ait even oven break with the suffered a 26 to 25 defeat at recently Coach Merlin Stevenson's Ste ath- ath ath athletes lotes letes will now prepare for the Junior college tournament here March larch 3 4 I and 5 The box score COLLEGE 31 SI 31 G T F P rC rt 3 2 0 6 Stratford rt rI 0 0 0 0 Irvine It Ie C G 2 2 14 H Price c 4 3 1 I 9 Inon non c 0 0 0 0 0 C Dudge re rt 1 0 0 2 dark Clark Is Ig 0 0 0 0 Totals 14 U 14 7 i 3 31 3 IDAHO ID TECH 2 25 G T F P P F Williams rt rf rf 1 2 1 0 2 1 C A Mackrill rt rf 0 0 0 0 Jenkins rf rt 1 1 2 1 3 Cliff Mackrill If It r 1 3 0 2 Richie c e S 5 3 3 13 1 Thompson rg rj 2 3 1 5 1 Tati-o Tati Ig 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 10 10 10 13 6 5 25 Referee Watson Vatson Umpire Sar War Warden Jr den no