Millard High School - Millard Yearbook (Fillmore, UT)

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON SCENES See ThaT apple Tly and The Ral:abiTs run? DELTA 6-MILLARD 6 This second league conTesT was almosT a downTall Tor The Eagles. Played in Hinclcley, againsT an inspired gang of TauTed DelTa Rabi.:-iTs, our Eagles had Their hands Tull To leave The Tield undeTeaTed .... The RabbiTs were ready To deThrone The Three Time sTaTe champs and IeTT noThing undone To Try To do so. Being helped by Millard's over-anxieTy, The hosT reached pay-dirT in The lasT Two minuTes OT The game, aTTer The blue- and-whiTe clad boys had pushed The hosfs all over The Tield during The TirsT quarTer, and missed several good chances To score in The second halT. Calmness under Tire, and heads-up TooTball were no co-parTners oT our Eagles in This conTesT .... MILLARD 60-NORTH SANPETE I3 Coach WaTTs' gridiron machine proved To be Too much Tor The NorTh SanpeTe Rams. The Eagles all l:uT Tramped The Rams inTo The ground. The laTTer Tried Their besT, buT were no maTch Tor The boys Trom Millard. The visiTors ouT-ran, ouT- bloclced, and ouT-passed The NorTh SanpeTe eleven, and per- miTTed second sTringers To play The larger share oT The game's Time. Yes, even sophomores experienced The Thrill oT playing Tor Their alma rriaTer. And only Then was iT ThaT The Rams Tinally succeeded To reach pay-dirT, and Then only Twice. OUR OUTSTANDING LINESMEN FROM OUR GRANDSTAND 5' 1 s..s...4 ' ' Wg . gs fi-fi? .W-. .J i as.. L. E.. Here we go To paydirT. n .Simi - ina! Mcforied MILLARD 22--WASATCH ACADEMY 27 ln MounT Pleasant The reTurn baTTle wiTh The WasaTch Academy Tigers, spelled Millard's TirsT TooTball deTeaT in Tour long years. IT was here ThaT eleven Tigers rolled up a 27-7 lead wiTh nine minuTes oT play To go, beTore The Millard spiriT finally igniTed, buT Too laTe To overcome deTeaT. Two Touch- downs were scored in quiclr succession, and when The Tinal gi.n sounded, Eagles were once more deep in enemy Terrifory. lcnoclcing aT The goal . . . buT Too laTe . . . The Eagles' senses were shoclced . . . deTeaT was Theirs To Talce home wiTh Them. 22-27 read The losing score. MILLARD 47-DELTA I3 The DelTa RabbiTs came To Millard in Their reTurn league conTesT, only To Tind ThaT The gridiron machine oT Coach WaTTs was running almosT Tlawlessly when They exhibiTed Their bloclr- ing, plunging, and passing abiliTies. WiThin Tour minuTes of play The Eagles began To score and leTT liTTle doul::T ThaT They were ouT To redeem Their poor showing oT a Tew weeks ago. In spiTe oT The gallanf sTruggle oT The RabbiTs, The Eagles were Too much Tor Them. They scored almosT aT will: even aTTer subsTiTules and some sophomores were doing The ball handling. A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE IN THREE INSTALLMENTS Here are Three good reasons why American Forlr did noT Roger's dad, Roger, and Coach fNaTTs all geT inTo The Tinals: Diclc Payne, Kimball Davis, and De- have reasons To be happy. GSPGCIGIIY Ciiel' Lyle Carling. winning The sTaTe championship game.

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THROUGH THE CENTER OF HOLD THAT MAN THE LINE Roger IAII-Americanlshalres himself loose for a nice gain. M'II a ' Th T a , - mg ':,of,fjf's an' 8' ew Ya' S on MANY WERE THE OBSTACLES AND ROCKY THE ROAD THAT LED A BULLET PASS . . righT in The arms of Billy Iverson. l'0l'l'l This year's gridiron hisTory aT Millard High was anoTher colorful one, an upward sTruggIe righT To The Top . . . buT noT wiThouT a seTback. Pre- season. league, and posT-season conTesTs all had Their own special appeal and are here recalled in Their proper order: Our pre-season games were Two, one againsT Springville, and The oTher againsT The much-feared and highly-publicized B. Y. High School. MILLARD 7-SPRINGVILLE 7 In a game ThaT showed much nervousness, To- geTher wiTh all The oTher signs of a newly-formed Team under fire, Millard's l953 Toofball ecliiion was inTroduced againsf a sTrong and powerful, experienced eleven from Springville. Before The TirsT quarTer ended our guesTs had enTered pay-dirT and converTed ThaT exTra poinT. BuT our Eagles were noT aT all dishearfened by This facT. Under The capable leadership of Roger Adams. he and Ten raTher inexperienced co-workers made sure ThaT The half-Time score was all evened up 7-7, and ThaT no more guesTs were allowed To gain addi- Tional scoring honors. MILLARD I9-B. Y. HIGH 0 WiTh anoTher week of hard preparafion well dlgesTed, The Eagles showed IiTTle mercy in down- BLOCKING THAT EXTRA POINT One of Friday's familiar scenes. 50 egionaf fo Qual' ing The highly-TauTed B. Y. High CaTs. In facT, in doing so. They ouTdid lasT year's sTaTe champions who won againsT T-he visifors by one poinT margin. A splendid passing aTTack had The Provo boys on The run all affernoon, while The Eagles Took advanTage of every opporTuniTy ThaT presenied iTseIf To enTer pay-dirT Three Times. IT was during This game ThaT The hopes of loyal Millard followers flared up, giving The new boys of Coach WaTTs a chance of perhaps winning The regional crown. MILLARD I9-WASATCH ACADEMY 0 Our Eagles opened Their firsT league conTesT in Their own back yard againsT an always dangerous and highly-respe-:Ted eleven from MounT PIeasanT. Inasmuch as The WasaTch Academy Tigers made iT exfremely hard for The local boys To peneTraTe Their forward wall, The Eagles wenT To The air, unveiled an aTTack ThaT found Them in scoring Ter- riTory once each in every one of The firsl' Three quarTers. AlThough The Tigers ouTgained The Eagles on The ground, The yardage gained Through The air, by The IaTTer, nullified The gains of The visiTors. The game proved To be an exciTing conTesT and provided specTaTors wiTh all The Thrills and spills ThaT any hard foughT fooTball game may have To offer, When The final gun sounded The score- board showed Millard as proud I9-0 vicTor. ANOTHER PASS-RECEIVER DeLUXE DeLyIe makes sure ThaT he holds on To Roger's pass.

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MILLARD BOYS AT WORK IN UTEVILLE Where do The E a g I e s h id e TooeIe's ball car- rier? Th.ree againsT one, and one sTilI on The go. MiIlard's ball carrier misses by inches. The referee waTches DeLyle Tuck away anoTher pass. 52 OUR EAGLES' FORTUNE RAN NEVER OUT Q 0l'l MILLARD 35-NORTH SANPETE 6 Again The Rams and Eagles meT7 again The Eagles had Too much power To malce The game a good con- TesT. The Millard boys scored Twice beTore halT- Time, and sTayed on The scoring march Throughouf The second halT. Only aTTer The bench had been cleared did The Rams Too enioy The Thrills oT scoring Tor Their beloved school. MILLARD 27-UNION 7 Traveling To Union I-ligh was a long journey, buT coming home wiTh The winning score oT The conTesT made iT Time well spenT. The champion Cougars oT Region Five Toughf hard and unTiringly, buT in spiTe oT iT, had To admiT ThaT The guesTs Trom souThe.n UTah were Their superiors. When The hard Tough, close game ended, The Eagles had TwenTy more poinT5 To Their crediT Than The gallanT hosTs, Thanlcs To Coach WaTTs, who helped his charges realize ThaT They could win as long as They permiTTed no one To ouT- Tight Them. MILLARD I3-AMERICAN FORK 0 AnoTher brillianT vicTory won away T.om home was The successTul demonsTraTion oT our Eagles' deTer- minaTion noT To be ouT-done by anyone in American Fork, againsT a highly-raTed newspaper superior, The TauTed Cavemen. As underdogs, Roger Adams, De' Lyle Carling, Dick Payne, Joe Jackson, Jack Johnson, and company proved once moo ThaT The M.llard Eagles are never beaTen unTil The game is over. The hosTs' earlier announcemenT ThaT They would clip The Eagles' wings did noT scare The WaTTs boys. On The conTrary, iT provided ThaT exTra liTTIe spark To win . . . To Tumble paper presTige and To sTruggle onward To SalT Lalce To TighT once more Tor a sTaTe crown. SixTy minuTes OT superior line play had noT only boTTled up The highly raTed oTTense oT The Cavemen. buT also given our baclcfield enough opporTuniTies To enfer The end zone oT our opponenTs Tw,ce. ONE OF THE LAST FEW MINUTES SCORING ATTEMPTS THAT FAILED