Show fourth quarter breaks cost Cougars II League i Merchants give team fine support After trailing a fine per-it Union team one-third quarters in q league grid game 9 St Friday in the I American Fork took 5 center in punt 7 i had pass from 1 on fourth IT the Cougars on their own gave the Cavemen a This was the in the arm the n fire them up and win Jine could easily have 2 lost Coach Ken Benson and his Paul un-l of that gave backers a lot of the home-town as they piled up five gist downs and a touchdown jn first and more m held their own with the until that fateful fourth period when the roof literally caved in on the Elected To Kick A strong wind that swept the field all day prompted American Fork to kick off after they won the Terry Bastion received on his own 12 and returned to the carried the ball on three tries for a first and on a pitchout from John who started at Bastian into A. F. territory another 1st Glines gained 8 more and a pass from Merkley to Bastian was nullified when Union was and the Cougars punted to the line of the Larry one of the Cavemen made 20 on a bit of nice But the ar line went into action and stopped any further advancing by their and they i punted to j and Mike moved in- to enemy territory and eventual- ly set up a scoring after they had added two more first Merkley called for a i cross-buck and tossed the ball to Terry Bastian who moved thirty yards for the Harmston's attempted kick for the extra point was blocked and the Cougars were aut front with a Nothing Happened During the second and third mailers play was confined r pretty much to the center of the with neither the Cougars I lor the Cavemen being able to t jo very far against two good r Only until that fateful fourth was A. P. able to gel inside Union's 20 and then th Cougars proved their defensive power to take In fact II was a situation similar to this when the trouble About four minutes into the fourth period the Cougars took over on the and on three plays moved to the On the fourth down Union lined up in punt formation with George Glines back on his 4 to i do the The center pass sailed over his head into the end He turned and recovered the only to be greeted by A. F. tacklers who downed him back of the goal line for two making the score The according to to A. F. on their own The with Searle leading the seemed to have caught the spark and Union's fire had gone and they went on to score a TD and go out front A. F. the goal line and Union took over on the They made a quick first then were held on the fourth A charging gang of Cavemen blocked Union's for the second big which they converted into a juick The third score for American Fork when Union attempted to pass deep in their own territory and Bob A. F. guard intercepted ind scampered for the third Ml three attempts for extra joints were stopped by No Most no one need for losing the despite a cold was well attended by and stores closed from 1 to ot many were in the Hit cars the field and watched the game from their The barring the bad could have easily been the They were that goodall until the bad We are sure no team in Region Seven has a stronger from tackle to Coach Benson has His two Brent Hutch-ings and Ron Dudley are his Dean Duvall and Dannie looked mighty and center Lynn is as good as the Union was bit weak defensively at the end In the Merkley at quarter is coming Bastian and Glines at halves are and and Chris Groves fill the fullback spot very The Cougars proved they can still be the dark horse team and if they improve the next two weeks like they have to this they will win a few ball No action will be seen in Region 7 this week because of in Salt The next scheduled games finds Pleasant Grove coming to Roosevelt to meet the Cougars on The following Union travels to Uintah Has Scare The Utes from Uintah had to capitalize on two Lehi miscues late in the fourth period to win a game from the Pioneers after the Utah county kids had played inspired ball ta almost pull off an B Y High defeated Pleasant Grove 20 to 0 at |