High school football 5A Semifinals preview: American Fork vs. Layton

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 8, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Given its recent history on the football field, Layton had little reason to believe it would be among the four teams left standing when the 5A playoffs came to Rice-Eccles Stadium.

The Lancers last won a playoff game in 1994 and had not advanced to a state title game in three decades.

A lack of recent success didn't stop the Lancers from dreaming big. Those dreams have been realized after Layton routed Skyline 49- 0 to stop the Eagles 262-game streak without being shut out in advancing to the semifinals for the first time in 28 years.

If anything stands out about the program's dramatic rise ...

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