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Show Wasatch Takes Sanpete Game Continuing her unbroken string of victories for District 6 competition, the Wasatch Academy football s'Uiad Thursday afternoon on the Academy campus defeated a scrapn..' North Sanpete high school team, 33-0. The game was the annual classic between these two schools. , and wa' preceded by the usual colorful col-orful Sanpete torchlight parade on Wednesday night. The high schorl b?nd under direction of Bardell Lai i-en was a feature at both the pel ade and the game. Cherry at fullback scored first for Wasatch in the opening canto on an end run, after a long pass from Johnson at left half to Jack Seely at quarter had garnered a neat gain. The try for point failed. The second touchdown, also in the first quarter, came largely as the result of an intercepted Sanpete pass by Wycherly, Tiger right end. It was a lucky catch for Wasatch, inasmuch inas-much as Sanpete at that particular phase of the game was marching rapidly toward the Orange and Black goalposts. Once more Johnson John-son hurled a splendid pass, this time to Pentalute at right half, who crcssed the line for another counter. count-er. Cherry converted for the 13f.li point on a line plunge. The halt ended 13-0. 1 In the beginning of the second half Wasatch kicked off and Wycherly, Wy-cherly, on about the third Sanpete play, again intercepted a pass. Wasatch Wa-satch pressed toward the goal, buc , was halt"d by tho fighting Sanpete I lineup on the twenty-five yard line Then came another of almost uncountable un-countable nnd costly fumbles on both sides, Wasatch regaining the I oval on the Sanpete thirty-five varrt line. A pass. Johnson to Pentalute. netted aoout yarns, cnaDiuuj Cherry to plunge through for an- I rthei touchdown. Wilson Keussefl. left tackle, kicked the pigskin DVer i for the 20th point. I I Ir. the fourth quarter, Wasatch o-i j a series of plunges pushed her lighter light-er f.dvrsorte! book and Cherry a-gain a-gain tallied A Johnson to Pentalut" j puss was good i'e' tne extra point.. Once move V. asatch was marching march-ing for a touchdown, when she lest, the ball following a 15 yard poivi!' " nam- of which were called leainst, her but recovered the ball on a blocked Sanpete mint., and Johnson this time scored, making it 33 to 0. Try for point failed. In the last ten seconds of nlay Pentalute intercepted intercep-ted a Sanpete pass nnd raced about forty-five yards to within a yard or so of a touchdown. But Sanpete, flp-hting to the last minute, prevented prevent-ed the runner from scoring. Sanpete threatened several time". ,Fer best chance came toward ine j close of the game when one of her men recovered a blocked punt and started racing toward the goal. Wycherly. Wy-cherly. teller nnd faster, overtook n'.m about, ten yards from the line. On the second play thereafter. San-nefe San-nefe lost the b-dl on a fumble, nnd Wasatch kicked out of danger. So Wasatch chalked up another victory and probably soon will be I pointing fcr a crucial contest with j I lie also undefeated Fillmore eleven, who will likely offer the chief obstacle obsta-cle to the capturing of tho 1933 Region . conference title. |