OCR Text |
Show VIKING FOOTBALL TEAM WORKS OUT The dull thuds & sliarp smacks heard in downtown Pleasant Grove these early evenings are not the echoes of the Montana earthquakes. They are the sounds of toe on pigskin and leather against leather. That's right, the Pleasant Grove Vikings are doing the grunts and grinds in preparation for another football season. Practice is going forward on the "old sod" of the venerable PGHS campus and games will be played across the tracks in the PG ball park. According to head coach, Jim Ditty, the field at the new Senior High is in no reasonable reason-able condition for football this falL "Anyway, where would the spectators sit?" asked Principal A. J. Rogers. When Coach Jim Ditty was contacted after dark Tuesday night, he and assistants Don Crump and John Gourley had just finished a round with some 30 -odd hopeful varsity team aspirants. as-pirants. "We are small this year in size and numbers," said Jim, "but we are large in spcfcnl, alertness alert-ness and enthusiasm." He went on to explain that graduation exercises last spring left him with only four experienced exper-ienced lettermcn on hand as :i nucleus for the 1959 Region VII entry. "However, the boys, headed by Co-Oaptains Steve Walker and Wayne Zupan, are showing better blocking than we have had for some time," the head coach said. The season opener is only one week away. The North Summit Braves will play the Vikings here at 3 p.m. Friday, S-pt. 11. Th-pre-season will close a week later when the PG boys meet the Orcm Tigers on the Orem field. The schedule of league game:) as releasld by Coach Ditty is as follows: Sept. 25, BY High at Provo Sept. 30, Payson at Payson. October 9, Union at Roosevelt. October 16, Lehi at Pleasant Grove. October 23, American Fork at American Fork. October 30, Uinta at Pleasant Grove. |