Show Cougars jar BYH to maintain tiM travel to American Fork on Coach Bruce Parry and his big Cougar team kept pace with American whom they meet today at American and Uintah as they ripped off a victory over a good Brigham Young High School team at Roosevelt last Friday TIIE COUGARS were great last Friday as they the ball at will and showed defensive power that kept the Wildcats from BY playing deep in their own territory most of the Only twice did the visitors and other times were when they recovered a couple of Cougar and then their defensive skill stopped the kids Only twice in the ball game did Union fail to make the downs and had to surrender the ball to the Blue-clad team which last week held Uintah to a TIIE FIRST BIG thrill of the and incidentally the first came early in the opening quarter when Boyd Van Tassell took a BYH punt on his own 40 and behind some beautiful blocking raced 60 yards to counterpart at Darrell added the extra point as he crashed through the and the Cougars were off and After the kickoff following the first score the Cougars held the Wildcats and Kim Cameron punted to Marden Cougar defensive who returned to his own On the first play after the punt the Cougars opened up a big threw a couple of and Darrell Murray was away for a run and the Cougars' second His plunge for the extra point was Inches and the Cougars led FOLLOWING THE kickoff after second the Wildcats moved about 4 then and Gordon Jennings recovered for the Cougars on the Y Murray picked up and Ken Morrill on an option play pitched out to Van Tassell who moved to the 3 0 as the first quarter After the brief Murray and Jennings moved to the Y only to have an off-side penalty move them back to the on the next play Morrill pitched a strike to Jennings and the big over for their third A back-field in motion cost Union the extra The Wildcats chalked up their first on a penalty after the Cougars were charged with an use of hands violation and it cost them 15 A successful pass and a couple of runs gave BYH two more first-downs as they moved into Union their hopes to go further were dampened when Brent and Ken Cougar recovered on his own A pass from Morrill tb Allen Brown gave the Cougars another then Rick who alternates with Morrill at the quarterback broke loose for a and the Cougars were on the Y Morrill flipped another TD pass to and aided by a timely block made by Rick the big back racked up TD Jennings kicked the extra point to run the score to which was the way the half Early in the third quarter Morrill a Y fumble on their own Murray went 25 to move the ball to the only to 15 of those yards nullified when a personal prompted by a flare of brought a penalty and loss of a Cougar the Cougars wanted their fifth TD and Rick Labrum hit Kelbaugh with a pass and the left end moved in for the Jennings' kick was and Union had 33 OF any particular significance happened in the period until the Cougars held the Wildcats and came into possession of the ball on their own 20 with 25 seconds to On the first play Labrum found Kelbaugh all alone on his 45 and heaved a perfect pass to the waiting end and he went the other 55 yards for a sixth Try for the extra point but Coach Parry's boys had rolled to an easy win over a usually tough BYH Those Cougars looked like the potential champs they could become as they made few and showed the results of some extra fine They gave their passers time to get rid of the and their blocking and tackling were of championship To name stars in the game would be to list a dozen or more kids who came through with some top football Coach Parry his Scott Edrington and Ronald cleared their bench to give the sophomores and juniors a chance to get into the and some of the kids showed real promise for years to UINTAH HIGH School displayed real power as they rolled over the Vikings of Pleasant Grove at Vernal |