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Show I KEARNS ! i KARVINCS f By Cpl. Dave Rowe Army Air Base, Keams, Utah, Dec. 3 king football as retired for the season at Kearns, and all eyes are turned to the coming basketball campaign, which should see the l.agles flooring a fast stepping, accurate shooting team. The first practice was held this week and a large turnout worned out among them a number of crack collegiate basketeers. Among the mast promising was Charlie Dente, small but skillful eager from Seton Hall, where he was a three year letterman. Regular drills will be held daily with Lieutenant Earl P. Beckman on the elert for good candidates. Beckman, himself a fine athlete at the University of Illinois, already al-ready has booked several games but is anxious to schedule games with teams in this Rocky Mountain Moun-tain area. The Eagle monitor believes he will have the caliber team which could give any of the colleges in this section an interesting even- mg. iJians also are Deing maue uo meet several crack collagiate quintets which will be traveling through Salt Lake City, on the way East. If football games were decided on statistics, the Kearns Eagles would have led opponents far and away. The Eagles led in ten of seventeen departments. First downs, yards gained from scrimmage and yards gained on intercepted passes on the black side of the ledger and penalties on the red, had the largest edge. The red, white and blue Kearns-men Kearns-men piled up 64 first downs to 34 for the opponent; gained 229 yards on pass interceptions to 49 for the enemy and were penalized pen-alized 48 times for 450 yards as compared with 24 setbacks for 235 yards. The Eagles backs carried car-ried the ball 281 times for 1360 yards to 234 times for 501 yards. Completing 29 out of 80 passes pas-ses for 4144 yards the Kearns eleven was bettered by the enemy which flipped 113 aerials, of which 39 were good for 507 yards With Howie Wedebrook and Bernie Metzler on the booting end of most kicks, the Eagles had an average of 47.7 to 48.6 for the apposition. Fumbles hurt the Kearns eleven elev-en continually. They muffed 40 times, recovered only 15 themselves. themsel-ves. However they did snag 21 rival bobbles. In the individual statistics, Hank Aloia, jarring fullback, led in total yards gained with 454 in 80 attempts for a 5 7 average. Ton Staffieri, fleet back, had the. best average 8.1 making 306 yards in 45 stabs. Aloia also topped top-ped the individual first down collectors col-lectors with 22 and the former Niagara University ace also paced pac-ed the passers with five of eight completions. He also tied for fumble fum-ble honors with George Lisko, each muffing 9. However, Aloia was most alert on recovering his own and opponent's miscues, feld-ing feld-ing of five of his own and three of the enemies. Wedebrook was credited with gaining the most yards on run-back run-back of intercepting passes 43 yards. Lisko snarred three aerials aer-ials for the most number of interceptions. inter-ceptions. Aloia and Charlie Wat- son, flashy end ceceived four passes pas-ses Aloia for 72 yards and Watson Wat-son for 10 more. However, some of the latter's yardage was gained gain-ed when he flipped laterals to teammates. The longest pass of the season came in the Fort Douglas game several weeks ago when Bob lAppleby southpawed a 56 yard thrust to Paul Mosser for a touchdown. touch-down. Runnerup distances over head was in the Pocatello game when George Lisko passed to Watson who lateraled to Wedebrook Wede-brook for 44 yards. With the grid togs placed in mothballs until next season, the Eagles now turn to basketball. Coach Earl P. Beckman and his aides called foti initial practice this week and believe they'll have a good club. Games are being scheduled and the team personnel person-nel will be announcel soon. |