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Show VIKINGS LOSE 27-0 IN OPENING GAME Coach Jirn Ditty's 1959 Viking aspirants learned a lot of football foot-ball last Friday under the lights at Pleasant Grove ball park. It was a stem lesson meted out by the North Summit Braves, who scored 27 points in the process. PG went scoreless. Not that the Vikings did not try. They wore in the game for the full 48 minutes of playing time; but they were not in the same class with the boys from Coalville Friday night. Mistakes, lack of experience and a dirth of speed on both offense of-fense and defense, all contributed contribut-ed to the Viking deimiso. But happily most of last Friday's shortcomings are correctable. That's what pre-spa-son games are for, and this scribe predicts that marked improvunont will follow as a result of the one:-sided one:-sided contest. Perhaps the silver lining to last Friday's dark cloud was the passing pass-ing of Viking quarterb;ix:k John Lolt. He hit the target at hsist 8 out of 10. Had his receivers been a little more adept in the pass catching department, the final results might have been different. dif-ferent. Other Region VII teams saw action Friday with varying success. suc-cess. Lthi Uxk a 26-0 stinging from the Wasatch Wasps; Union Un-ion (Roosevelt) tied with Range-ly, Range-ly, Colorado 7-7; American Fork swamped Juab 40-12; BY Higli ran wild over North Sanpete 39-0 and Uinta showed signs of strength by beating Class A Carbon 32 to 6. That the Vikings will be busy next Friday was made certain by the way Coach Udell Wcstover's Orem TigeTS smashed the hopes of the Bingham Miners 13 to 7 in a game played in Copperville. Leo Bunnell's two-yard plunge and Gary Shumway's 33-yard pass to Dave Thompson earned the two Orem touchdowns. According to Principal A. J. Rogers, the Viking-Tiger hassl? is set for 3 p.m. on the Orem field. |