Show J holds big Cougar team to q tie in Roosevelt J mistakes offset Union power though the Cougars from School ground out Union and V in their Saturday the School to com- the ball game S to be content with a tie with the Colorado Saturday's contest was home game and the second preseason for the Cougars and was played under a hot fall COACH BRUCK Parry's big rugged team had every to win a convincing victory over the visiting Using sheer power and speed the Cougars pushed the Panthers back deep into their own territory in the opening few minutes of the but then they began to make many and varied mistakes that cost them an early first quarter touchdown and at least 90 yards In The Cougars won the toss and elected to receive as the game got Kent Denver took the opening kickoff and moved to his own from where the Cougars a quick first down and had another one all chalked except they made their first mistake in the form of a fumble and the Panthers recovered on their own They were unable to move the ball and punted on the fourth to Kent Denver who returned the punt back to his own 45 WITH Boyd Van Tassell and Gordon Jennings doing the ball the Cougars quickly moved to their own only to make mistake 2 an illegal use of hands This happened after the down had been completed and brought a penalty from point of and the Cougars found themselves back on their On the next play Ken Morrill picked up 16 yards and Union was in scoring It was the next mistake that hurt the Cougars- the left end was caught and a power drive by Darrell Murray over the goal line for a TD was nullified with a and gone was a chance to break the game wide open with an The visiting Colorado kids took advantage of the few mis-plays the Cougars had made and during the second quarter they played on even terms with their UNION'S KENT Denver Intercepted a pass on the first play from scrimmage after the second half began and the Cougars were off for a few more yardage plays only to lose the ball via a fumble when a pass attempt was thwarted by a charging Panther one of which recovered the fumbled The first score of the game came on the first play after recovered the Cougar fumble as an unidentified Panther back 32 yards for a They bucked over for the extra point to take a Evidently the Cougars had gotten most of the mistakes for the day out of their system as the fourth period because it didn't take them long to push over a TD to tic the Starting from Rangely's 40 Union began moving as Ricky offensive quarter- picked up 6 and then handed off to Gordon Jennings behind some effective was able to ramble 32 yards for the Murray carried over for the extra point and the score was all tied AFTER TIIE VISITORS received the kickoff following Union's they were contained and forced to punt to the Again the Cougar power went into action as they moved very deliberately down-field only to have time run out with less than a yard to go as the game Missed from the line was John guard who was sidelined with a sprained His absence left a big hole in the Cougar The running of Van Tassell and the offensive play of and and the of Ricky Labrum were the bright spots in the Cougar AS INDICATED in the opening paragraph Union collected a total of 17 first downs as compared to for the The Cougars lost 90 yards from penalties and the Panthers were set back 3 times for 25 Union fumbled four times and recovered only one of their Rangely fumbled three times and recovered A tentative game in Roosevelt with Spanish Fork has not materialized for this which evidently leaves the Cougars without a much-needed contest on Their next game will be at Heber with Wasatch High on Le-hi opens here on 5 to get Region Seven's league games |