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Show post-game for the beer-drinking championship of the Western West-ern Rockies. Park City currently current-ly holds claim to that title, but the U of U has taken up the challenge. Hope to see everyone every-one there for a good time. trys. Shaving points against Provo, he managed to miss only one of them. That gives Foster two points for the season; sea-son; and four for his career. Foster also managed to bring upon the rugby scene a new tactic, tac-tic, the 'phantom pass". It was with extreme amazement to whom or for what Foster was aiming this toss. Maybe it was at that fifteenth player, the one the "Muckers were doing without. with-out. At least the ball managed to find touch before confused Provo could figure out what was happening. THE REST of the forward pack played admirably, scrumming scrum-ming and rucking Provo off the ball all afternoon. Sound individual in-dividual efforts were turned in by Rootin" Rick Kappe, Stormin" Norman Hall, and 'Big John Cantlon, a Prop who found new life and vigor at Number Num-ber 8. Bill 'Bimbo Bentley resembled re-sembled a youthful John Unitas with his supurb tosses into the lineouts. Bentley lofted throw after throw directly onto the sticky fingers of his Lock mate Peter Piggott. 'Pig-man" Pete appeared to have steel springs in his legs as he leaped high into the valley skies to snatch the ball uncontested. uncon-tested. Final score: Park City 22, Provo A.C. 6. Do the Park City 'Muckers merit such greatness? Only time will tell. A grueling four games remain for the balance of the 6pring Beehive schedule. Next to face our local heros will be the University of Utah, a rapidly improving young squad who also trounced Provo. It will be an interesting match as the U of U and Park City have never clashed. ' Game time for this up-coming joust will be 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Satur-day, on the U of U home turf just north of the Special Events Center. The two clubs will also meet PARK CITY RUGBY Football Foot-ball Club, sporting a name after four years of deliberation, scored one of its strongest triumphs this past weekend, trouncing Provo Athletic Club, 20-6. P.C.RJ.C. will henceforth be called the "MUCKERS, a convenient handle which happens hap-pens to rhyme with an ancient rugby term used to describe a stout pack of rugby forwards: "ruckers". The Muckers are ruckers. And since a great degree of success is achieved in rugby by a good-rucking team, let's hope the ruckers on each Saturday Sat-urday prove to be the 'Muckers. 'Muck-ers. SATURDAY'S ENCOUNTER was a wide-open affair, a riot of running that shone out of the shadows of a whitish-grey spring season with a blinding brilliance. It was a triumph of strength and enterprise, courage and skill. Every man played like titan, fighting on from glory to glory until he almost dropped (it must be noted that Park City played the entire game one man short, 14 against 15). It is impossible to single out one man for special praise. The defense hadfire in its belly; the tackling was ruthless; the clearance kicks prodigious; and every thwart of the enemy became be-came a counter-attack. JOHN STUART, trying to relive re-live the days when he was one of the most highly touted schoolboy school-boy footballers in Michigan history, his-tory, rose to.the occasion at the ten-minute mark of the first period. With Provo in desperate straits near its own goal line Stuart gained possession with his deft footwork and dribbled the ball into the Provo in-goal. Following up the opportunity with a blinding flash of speed, John flung his body with abandon aban-don upon the leather orb and was awarded the first try of his career. Stuart, when interviewed after the game, tried to brush aside the heroics of his feat by saying: "It was just a matter of "think-quicking". "Think-quicking" "Think-quicking" is not a rugby term. JOHN LANDON, one of the most consistent performers for Park City this season, hitched up his shorts and once again came up with a sparkling performance. per-formance. Landon scored ten points, finding paydirt for two trys and converting a kick on one of them. Playing in every spot in Park City's backfield, Landon slashed slash-ed and slithered his way in a series of serpentine offensive bursts that had the Provo backs dizzy, delirious and disillusioned. dis-illusioned. Combining with Landon in, Park City's vicious attack was "old reliable" Steve Strausser. Strausser, back from exile in Madison Avenue, N.Y., scored his third try of the young season sea-son and had a big hand in those of Landon's. The big wiflfcyr-ward wiflfcyr-ward set up his backs all day with terrifying rushes into Provo's beleagured defense. CORKY FOSTER, developing into one of the finest scrum halfs in the Beehive R.F.U., linked the attack between the forwards and the backs with a high rate of efficiency throughout through-out the contest. f Foster, proving his all-around all-around value, insisted on taking two very close-range shots at the conversion after Park City's |