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Show WM TIGERS MEET WEST HIGH PANTHERS IN CRUCIAL , : CONTEST FRIDAY AFTERNOON Accompanied by several hundred confident and enthusiastic rooters. Coach lart ace "Do ' Douglas and his band of Ogden llich football players will bike to Salt Lake tomorrow morn-ling morn-ling with the avowed intention of handing the highly touted West High Panthen a neat little package hen the two teams meet m Cummings field in th.' afternoon. Loth machines art oiled and primed for the tray, .ind with their ancient rivalry to urge them on and their chances for the state In-terecholaatit In-terecholaatit championship hanging In the balance, they are bound to afford the fans a grand old battle rhe tival coaches have heon per-fecting per-fecting a new and deceptive offense for th1 encounter, and will liin forth their choicest assortment of plays. All the players are in top Shape, The Tl-gers Tl-gers have no! tasted blood .-dnet their victory over Davis Count High in I Kaysvllle two weeks ago. Instead of taking on a contest with some outside 1 team for their open date last week I they accompanied their coach to Salt j Lake and got a close-up view jf the proceedings in the Panther-Crrinite contest If 1 here is anything in the V"?t High strategy thit the Ogden-ils Ogden-ils haven t down pnt. if i.- hecausi- the Panther pigskin chasers didn't trj i' 01 because Coach Chrlstensen did not let it out ol the bag until this week According to the available dope the teams arc decidedly evenly matched. In the season's opener Ogden and firanito plaed a scoreless tie, bu' the 'data on the contest shows that the .linn Hun Citj lads advanced the oval for considerably more yardage than their opponents, and but for some un-I un-I toward "breaks'" and the stubborn Ifighl of the Oranitians, hight well have "Avon b) two touchdowns a feat which 'the vestsiders accomplished last week at Granite Both Have Good Records. In their games to date both teams have been relying on straight football. After losing an early season game to Payon iiiuii soen of whose regulars have sinei? been declared ineligible, the West High eleven found itself and trounced Eureka High 37-0, Jordan High U-0 and Grante 1J-0 Ogden tied Granite and defeated Davis. 13-0. Several letter men on each eleven lend stability to the aggregations, and the coaches have consequently been able to make rapid progress in the development de-velopment of their attack and defense, Richards, the brilliant back, is the outstanding out-standing Tiger star His speed and side-stepping abilitv make him a dan gerous man around the ends and in the open field Captain Vern Funk is the Panther) ! mainstay. A terrific line smasher and la vicious tackier, he sets a sterling example ex-ample for his men Hagen and Lidd at halfbacks nrp both experienced men land make good mates for the plunging I Funk. Bruckner, a sturdy chunk of 1 animation, and Pit k Williams, are backs who can step into ihe shoes of the regulars without causing any misgiving mis-giving to the Red and Blaek support -ers The generalship is in rapable ; hands with Yon Elm directing the ! play. Roberts aud Yarnell on ends have proved effective, particularly the t'or-mer. t'or-mer. The line Is husky and well bal-ianced, bal-ianced, with Mitchell at center the leader and particular star Practically th entire Ogden squad Will be out in tho moleskins Granite - Davis Game Even. While the Panthers and the Tigers are staging their titular affray. Granite and Davis Iliah will do baitlp in Kays-ville. Kays-ville. Both teams are conceded a I chance to annex ihe long end ot the, 'score. The 118 0 defeat administered to the Davis lads bj the Last High last wek has been forgotten it is not considered significant as a trustworthy trust-worthy test of the Davis strength. The ftaysvills rooters are n i ailing the 'hard fight the Davis gridders gave j Ogden, and with t h - experience of the Leopard game and a gruplling week under Coach Warner to their credit the expect to whip the lighting 1 1 rranltia n Fast High is not scheduled for a 'league game this week But the Leopards will not go without n con test Forty players will journey to Logan Friday, where the first team meets the Utah Aecip fresh and the second team plays Logan High Two great gaVnes are anl'cipated Logan High has revealed unexpected Strength, whereas the baby Leopards hav won four games and lost none. The ggie Frosh have a clan slate. , v. ith irtories over Box Elder High. B V. C, South Cache and Logan High j They will meet a great scoring ma-chine ma-chine in th Fast High first stringers, who have ran wild In the three games j played thus far. Coach Olsen will take his Saints to I Park City. The L D. S. team has been coming forward with great rapidity, and should win from ihe high school-! ers of Summit countv. After losing to' the East High reserves, the Park City I aggregation came back and whipped Westminster college, and will try to repeat at the expense of the Gold and' Blue. I |