Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-25
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
The Players Are Ready to Meet New
 Britain at Any Time.

The manager of the New Britain High school football team received word yesterday from Waterbury that the principal of the Waterbury High school had refused to let the eleven play the game arranged in this city for Saturday afternoon on the ground that the Waterbury team would not receive fair treatment. An attempt will be made to secure the Trinity freshmen team. Most of the local eleven are sick or laid up from injuries as result of the warm weather.-New Britain Correspondent of Hartford Courant.
 The New Britain High school foot ball eleven received word from Water bury this afternoon that the principal of the Waterbury High school team has refused to let the eleven play the game arranged in this city Saturday afternoon. He expressed a fear that the visitors would not be fairly treat ed. The local players are amused by the action of the Waterbury principal, who evidently is perturbed by the re- membrance of the pugiliStic tactics in duleed in by the Waterbury players at the championship game i'll New Haven last year and fears that New Britain would seek retaliation. Dr Barton, the coach of the local team, said this afternoon that he would attempt to secure the Trinity Freshmen instead. Every member of the local eleven is sick or injured. The warm weather has been disastrous.-New Britain Herald. <
 In regard to these items and in justice to Principal Wilby it must be said that they are utterly false. The New Britain manager bOasteu at q delegates meeting that his team would play Waterbury any day the Water bury manager might choose. Accord ingly the management of the local team at once wrote to New Britain assigning last Wednesday as the date that the teams should meet. Tuesday morning a letter was received from Manager Steele of New Britain say ing that it would be impossible for New Britain to obtain money enough on a Wednesday game. accompanied with a. request to play Saturday. Wa terbury had a game scheduled with Ansonia High school for Saturday and consequently it was an impossibility to play on Saturday. When Mir Nilby was made acquainted with this fact, he said he would much prefer the team to play New Britain and asked if the Ansonia game could not be cancelled There are the facts, and Waterbury detieS Mir Steele to produce q letter SubStantiating his statements As to the pugilistic tactics indulged in by the Waterbury players, etc, every one present at that game remembers that | Gaffney and GoSs, two of Waterbury s | best players, were hammered and bat | tered by the New Britains until they | had to be carried from the field. Oh no, New Britain, your players know | who did the slugging. Notwithstand ing this, Waterbury never did or never will fear New Britain. We beat then in football, in polo and in baseball last | season; we beat them ill football, al though we had to play both their team and the unsportsmanlike rooters thai | accompanied them. We can bea1 them again, either in Waterbury, New Britain or on the Yale field, and it is our sincere hope that New Britain vii | be our opponents in the championship game this season. Furthermore, we are willing to play New Britain, or any date, in any place, or on any field 1 after November 10.
 The above is a statement from the management of the Waterbury Higl school football eleven when interview
 ed by a Democrat reporter in regard to the above clippings.