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Show Football It was this tricky forward-lateral that Navy borrowed and used during two touchdown drives against Army. They watched Grosscup use it several times as Utah gained 316 yards via the air route against the Black Knights on November 9. The quarterback fades back while the center and right guard open a hole in the line. The center blocks to the left. The guard brush blocks his man, then lets him vainly chase the quarterback. He then drives the defensive middle guard to the left to open the hole. The left halfback heads for the hole and receives a short pass from the retreating quarterback. The defensive halfbacks are split wide to cover the two ends in the flat. This leaves only the safety man. From here the ballcarrier can either lateral to the fullback who has swept around right end and block the safety man, or run the ball himself. Vv h The quarterback breaks to the right and throws a jump pass to the left halfback off a fake quick opener. If the halfback is not open, he can throw to the fullback swinging wide. "Never have I been as proud of a football team as I was of this year's University of Utah squad. The Army game was the most gallant football stand a team of mine has ever made. We were outweighed by the nationally ranked Cadets, and as much as 35 point underdogs in the New York press, but we fought them right down to the line. From the time we played Wyoming to the end of the year, Utah was an excellent football team. "We gained many national honors during the year and probably the most important was the nation's pass offense title. "It was a great year for all of us, and I'm extremely pleased that Utah was able to gain so much favorable national publicity. This is a fine school with an outstanding student body, and they deserve the best football team we can give them." -Jack Curtis Utah was consistantly successful with these two plays and used them, along with the other pass patterns, to form the best passing offense in the nation. The story of their successes and failures is in the story of each game. Utah lived up to its billing as the pre-season favorite for the Skyline Championship as they smothered Montana 32 to 13. Utah's passing quarterbacks filled the air with passes in completing 14 for 23, four of these for touchdowns. The powerful Redskins scored in every quarter. Utah gained possession of the ball only seven times in the game but made the best of its opportunities by scoring five of these times. The initial test for the Utes sounded a small triumph as they downed the undermanned Montana team with relative ease. Fresh with confidence from the Montana game, the Utes tackled their next gridiron foe, mighty Colorado. The underdog Redskins did themselves proud in the nip and tuck thriller which saw George Boss put them ahead with a twenty-six yard field goal with just under seven minutes of playing time life. But then the jinx of Foulsom Field struck in the last minute of play to knock down a gallant Ute try for victory. A sixty-six yard drive saw Colorado finally score from the one yard line with only forty-one seconds to go. This made the score 30 to 24, and gave Utah a heart-breaking loss. This game was one of the tests for the Redskins. It saw them play a team, which later held mighty Oklahoma to a close 7 to 6 win, and play them on even terms. After coming within a hair's width of beating mighty Colorado, Utah fell on the wet turf of Idaho's Bronco Stadium. Plagued by fumbles and a bruising, hard charging Vandal line the Ute express was derailed, but good. Highly inspired, the Vandals proceeded to push the Redskins all over the field and win 21 to 6. BYU was proof that the Redskins could bounce back. Exploding for three touchdowns in the second period, they shutout the Cougars 27 to 0. It was Utah's air arm that pentrated the Cougar's massed-attack defense as the Utes completed 16 out of 27 passes for 223 yards. The ground-gains of the two clubs canceled each other out, but Utah's men of the air led the Redskins to victory over BYU. 21 |
