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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1953 4—The Herald Journal Logan (Cache County) Utah SALT LAKE CITY, @® — As smoke cleared from the first bat tles of the 1953 football season it became evident today that per haps Utah University is stronger than most Skyline conference ob servers at first figured. Coach Jack Curtis unleashed a host of swift backs on highly fa vored Arizona at Tucson Satur day and the Utes easily picked up their first scalp of the season, 28-7. Everyone had conceded that Utah would be tough. Every coach in the conference had picked Utah to win the league crown for the third year in a row. But Utah wasn't supposed to be good enough to push over Arizona. It was enough to cause many coaches in the area to pause and take notice. Cougars Take Lead But as far as Skyline statistics go, Brigham Young is the confer ence leader today. The Cougars, who probably won't be able to stay there for any length of time, at Montana 27 to 13 Saturday is the only conference game on the opening week’s schedule. In other Saturday games Utah State tripped Wichita 14 to 7 and Wyoming ran rough shod over New Mexico 9M, 47 to 0. In addition to two conference games this weekend, Skyline teams will face four rugged in tersectional foes in an attractive schedule. League games will send Wyo ming to Montana and New Mexico to Utah State. Tough San Jose State,one of the strong inde pendents on the Pacific Coast, will be in Provo to take on the Cougars while Drake and Denver renew an old rivalry in Denver. Both games are Friday night. Saturday Utah fans will get their first look at the Redskins in a night game against Idaho while Colorado AM gets its first taste of competition this year against Kansas State of the Big Seven. Showed Better Line Utah displayed a better line than many experts gave them credit for having at Tucson. Out weighed 13 pounds to the man, the Ute forward wall came through when the chips were on the carpet. The Ute backfield pranced in midseason form on the general ship of quarterback Dan Rydalch. Coach Curtis let everybody on the bench run and they did. Besides veterans Jack Cross, Set Bran ham, Don Peterson, and Paul Cook, two sophomores — Herb Nakken and Lou Mele—lived up to advance notices. Branham scored three times and Cross once. Mele kicked the extra points. Wyoming, under new coach Phil Dickens, looked impressive against little New Mexico Aggies. Dickens admitted his team would need stiffer competition to decide its worth but just the same full back George Galuska and half backs Bob Rush and Joe Mas trogiovanni looked awfully good. The stout Cowboy line gave the aggie backs fits. Offense Under Wraps Utah State kept it’s new split T offense under wraps for the most part Saturday but nearly lost its victory in the closing minutes as Wichita made a drive for the goal. The Farmers scored all their points in the first two quar ters. Quarterback Steve Motta carried it over for the first touch down and Matt Trontel tallied the other on a pass from Earl Lind ley. Coach John Boning’s crew displayed a rugged defense. Two jet-speed halfbcks, Dick Felt and Don Wood, made life un happy for Montana's secondary at Provo. The BYU speedsters joined forces with quarterback Lavon Satterfield and end Dewey Brundage to guide the Cats to victory in their first try this year. Reserve quarterback Dick Heath had the partisan BYU crowd on its feet with his passing for Montana in the second quart er as he engineered the first Griz zlie touchdown. Tom O'Brien converted for Montana. Heath, in the fourth quarter, lacking a pass receiver plunged 12 yards to score. Montana’s attack suffered from penalties. SKYLINE EIGHT FOOTBALL This Week's Schedule Friday San Jose State at Brigham Young (N). Drake at Denver (N). Saturday of State at Colorado AM in New Mexico at Utah State (N). Idaho at Utah (N) Wyoming at Montana. FIRST TIME IN EIGHT YEARS—Kid Gavilan goes down after being hit flush on the jaw by left hook thrown by Carmen Basilio in second round at Syracuse, N. Y. It was only the sec ond time in his career, and first in eight years, that Gavilan had ever been knocked off his feet. Gavilan recovered to keep his welterweight crown by winning split decision.
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The Herald Journal
Logan, Utah, US
Mon, Sep 21, 1953
Page 4
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Curtis F.
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