`HUGE' UPSET OF TAFT : CLEVELAND 28, TAFT 26.Byline: Gary Gary, city (1990 pop. 116,646), Lake co., NW Ind., a port of entry on Lake Michigan; inc. 1909. Gary was founded by the U.S. Steel Corporation, which purchased the land in 1905 and landscaped it for a city. Miereanu Special to the Daily News James Bethea rushed for 282 yards and three touchdowns and the Cleveland High defense halted a last-minute, two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. run, giving the Cavaliers a 28-26 victory over Taft. The win gave Cleveland claim to one-third of the resurrected West Valley League championship. Granada Hills' victory over Birmingham leaves the league crown in a three-way split among Cleveland, Taft and the Highlanders. Taft (5-5 overall, 4-1 league) drove the Cavaliers' homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. crowd to its feet with a 2-yard Brandon Hance touchdown scamper with just 46 seconds left in the game. But Jesse Johnson Jesse Johnson may refer to:
n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage. tailback Noun Brit a queue of traffic stretching back from an obstruction Lee Marks' two-point run attempt at the 1-yard line to preserve the win. Bethea was relentless in driving Cleveland (6-4, 4-1) to its first football title in 21 years, rushing 35 times to account for 282 of the Cavaliers' 357 offensive yards. Matthew Clark added a 10-yard TD run with 10:09 remaining, and Bethea tacked on the eventual game-winner with a 13-yard scoring sprint just 4:37 before the final gun. ``I've been on the varsity since I was in 10th grade and I'm used to coming out here every week and just getting my butt BUTT. A measure of capacity, equal to one hundred and eight gallons. See Measure. kicked,'' an exhausted, yet jubilant Bethea said. ``But we finally stepped it up as a team - especially my offensive line - and it was great to do it against, of all teams, Taft. It doesn't get any better than this.'' |
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