Millard High School - Millard Yearbook (Fillmore, UT)

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H TOOELE BOWIN6 OUT 26-20 ourfk Conaecufiue .STafe 6Aamlaion:5 ila 'TOOELE LOSES 26-20 IN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME They did iT again . . . These young Eagles, wiTh only one experienced backTield man. . . . They derailed The black locomoTive Willy Fisher and his Tooele gianTs ..., They won The TourTh con- secuTive sTaTe class B TooTball crown . . . The TaTT WaTTs boys Trom Millard High! And They did iT in The lasT quarTer, in The lasT 45 seconds oT play, aTTer The onslaughTs of our deTermined boys seemed To have been in vain Tor Tour long minuTes. Tooele's deTense was peneTraTed vicTor- iously and wiTh iT a repeaT champion, ever since I95O, declared: Millard High UTah's class B TooTba!l powerhouse. Many were The Thrills and spills when our boys humbled Tooele, a Toe ThaT never gave in and ToughT unTil iTs powers had vanished. Surely iT was The besT Team ThaT our boys meT ThroughouT The season! They were ground gainers superior, heavy, clever, and hard chargers, The only weak- ness oT Theirs was ThaT They ran ouT oT sTeam beTore The game was over, beTore Millard wenT To The air, and Roger Adams Threw his bulleTs so TasT and numerous ThaT a vicTorious cannonball landed in The end zone safely Tucked away in The arms OT Del.yle Carling .... TOOELE'S 230-lb. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS This is only one of The demonsT'ra'I'ions of how our Millard boys slowly, buT surely, succeeded in derailing TooeIe's black shadow. MORE ACTIONS FROM OUR CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY The Tooele back- field is running ouf of sTeam. s in T X. 'i X. Above:-Harold GenTry's kick for exTra poinT failed. Below:-To The vicTor go all The spoils, even if he is assisTan+ coach. 53

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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

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