The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-15
H. 1T. SIS SPLENDID VICTORY.

The final game in the State Interscho- lastic Football league was played here in a victory for Hillhouse by a score of 2S to 16. The contest was very exciting and several players on both sides were injured, but these were for the most part trivial. In the first half both sides scored and when the whistle blew the score was 12 to 10 in favor of Hillhouse. New Britain kicked off in the second half, and Hillhouse, by beautiful inter- ference and steady center plunges, roll ed up 16 more points against for their opponents. Beecher and Hart did the best work for Hillhouse. If New Britain had won Saturday the cup would have been hers, as she has won the contest two years in success sion. SOME OF THE WELLS. The New Britain Herald of Saturday prefaces it's account of the game with the following:
 | The New Britain rooters were content l to sing the old-time yells with which to exhort the schoolboy athletes to victory. Occasionally the cries were varied by an imitation of Yales famous frog chorus, which rang in this guise:
 Give em the axe, the axe, the axe; Give 'em the axe, the axe, the axe; Where? Right in the neck.
 Who? Hillhouse.
 This was inspiring when it was sounded by hundred bowling and en- l thusiastic dervishes, and for while the l New Haven rooters paled before it. They responded in kind and their yells were more collective than those which emanated from the New Britain side of the field. Tn the big stands, capable of seating twenty thousand, veritable ! coliseum, the whoops had a hollow sound for while, but when the battle waged warmer on the field the enthu- 1 siasm ran riot.
 The old New Britain chorus which has been sung over many football fields and which echoed in triumph on this same 1 turf a year ago was used with a great deal of effect. It had a familiar sound 1 which pleased the players, and when it went out to them
 Rah rah, sis boom ah
 New Britain high school!
 Rah! rah! rah!
 they were almost certain to take a brace and throw themselves in front of the TIillhouse onslaught Then there was the ancient xxi Xxi Brax," and also the expurgated word invention:
 One zip, two zip, three zip gam,
 This whole crowd don't give dam,
 For who? For Hillhouse!
 The slight sprinkling of profanity pleased the crowd and this yell was the most popular on the field.
 A TEAM OF KIDS"
 The New Britain team is a team of "kids," and for kids" they have done wonderfully well. The average age of the eleven is sixteen years, which is a year and half less than the average | age of their New Haven opponents. BRIDGEPORT REJOICES. The Bridgeport Standard says: "The football enthusiasts were cheered up | this morning by the joyful news that | HilIhouse of New Haven had defeated 1 the New Britain high school for the | championship of the state in the Inter scholastic Football league by rolling up | against their opponents score of 2S | to 16. It had been a matter of conjec- ture as to which team would win this final game. as each of the teams was playing very well. | "Bridgeport was played out of the 1eagus games this year by being defeat ed, and rather badly, in the first game l in which they took part, and so all of Bridgeport's prayers have been that Hillhouse might win. Bridgeport has won the state championship twice and so the name of the local high school has twice been engraved upon the handsome silver cup which was offered by the Yale Athletic association. No other team has it's name engraved on the cup more than once"