The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
IF IT HAPPE N S
IT'S He r E
OGDEN CHAMPS
HOLD UTAH DOWN
High School Lads Made Good
Showing Against Mad
docks Men.
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Ogden, Sept 8.-The football season OF
1907 opened here this afternoon, plucly
lads from Ogden High school holding the
University of Utah eleven down to a score
of 10 TO 0. While the showing made by
the Junction City boys was ereditable it
must be remembered that Maddocks men
have only been together two weeks and
the team work was lacking for this rea
son. Ogden High has certainly a strong
aggregation for the High school class. All
Of the men are veterans at the game and
most OF them have won their o. The team
work and the tackling Of High school lads
were extremely good
The game was attended BY about 800
people. They were mostly rOoters for the
home team and they showed great enthu-
si9sm when the Ogden eleven was holding
down their big opponents. Much trouble
was experienced in keeping the crowd off
the field. there being only one policeman
present.
The university team did not use any
fancy plays or formations, but played
straight football. Only few forward
passes and end runs were tried. All of the
forward plays were tried once and in
each case they worked perfectly. The
great trouble of the I team was lack of
organization and team work and not be
ing well enough acquainted with the sig
nails. The tackling of MaddOck's men was
that his first act on reaching Salt Lake
would be to erect a tackling dummy
Need More Scrimmage Work.
fled with the outcome as the team had
only been practicing two weeks and had
practically no scrimmage work He said
there were two weeks more before the
first big game and that there was plenty
OF time for them to improve weak spots.
ogden High schools strongest department
is end runs. AT this their formations are
good and they are run off perfectly. The
tackling of Coach Blakeslee's men was
one of the best features Of the game.
Every time one Of the Ogden warriors
would get his hands on a man it was
sure down, Captain Tavey and ScUdder
We're the stars of their team.
The men who showed up strongest for
Utah We're Russell ConviI. Richardson
and HOldswOTth- Grant and Moore at
quarter were also good. Peterson the
husky Utah center. sprained his ankle. bus
Il will not put him out of the game for
long.
Held Utah for Downs.
The game started by Ogden kicking to
Utah. The coll ssians were soon forced to
punt When Ogden got the ball. Carlson
skirted the end for forty yards. after
which HoldswOEth recovered the ball for
MaddOCkS men on a tumble. After the
university backs had plunged to Ogden
ten-yard line the High school braced and
held Utah for downs. Richardson made
CT the next play Home got the pigskin on
an attempted forward PASS After a few
line bucks in which COnVill figured for
two long gains. the big fullback from
Purdue was sent over the line for the first
touchdown. The goal was missed.
The next touchdown was made in three
minutes after the hall had gone down the
field seventy yards in two downs on two
cleverly played forward passes to Moore.
Convill made the next score with a beau
tiful drive through Ogdens line. Shortly
after the kickoff the L men by long runs
and bucks by Russell. COnvill and Rich
ardson placed the ball on Ogden's ten
yard line when time was called.
Utah Substitutes Players.
The second half opened with McNaugn-
ton replaced by Olsen, Russell by Fergu-
son, Moore by Grant, Snow by Houstan.
HoldswOrth by Anderson. ard later HeTbst
was tried out at fullback. The university
team did not play as good ball the sec
Ond half Ogden made number of gains
and held Titan on downs. Tavey. Pugh
and Carlson made some good gains. Grant
caught a forward pass that netted about
thirty yards and the young quarterback
also did some good work racing punts
After the L team had been within striS-
ing distance of the goal twice and was
penalized fifteen yards each time for off
side playing an end run by Anderson and
a few bucks by Richardson and COnvill
the latter went over for the last touch
down. This goal was also missed. The
ball then changed hands a couple OF times
when Houstan nefted a good gain around
end. placing the ibalI on Ogdens thirty
yard line Here Ferguson took the ball
and sent il SQuarely between the goal
posts a drop kick During the rest of
but was lost once on a tumble and Utah
was held for downs the other time.
The lineup:
Utah. Ogden.