Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-10
'IEiiI: CUP AGAIll,
Waterbury Won It for Seeon ]
 Timo To-Day.
BEAT mERIDEN AT YALE FIELD

Only Get G-Manager Murray High
 ly I1lated Over the Victory-Big Crowd of Local Enthusiasts Went
 Down to Cheer Along Their Favor
 itcs If the scno,Ars of the Waterbury High schooi tull the city upside down ti:Is evening Jhc residents should not feel &f all ;ila.nled, iut should give tllp boys and the girls, ,JO. ;l hearty cheer and all the room they want IS they parade through the city streets. The reaSUns are not in the plural num- Der either for there iS but one cause why the NcyH and girls feel like cut ting loose. Thr team of foot ball | p!syo that iourneycd from thiS city this morning will bring back with them tonight the Ialc cup. which they won ell tl!p Yale field t0-iiay by con ! Querin% the best athletes that could hc l sent down to til" Elm city from Mrri- ] tirn High school. It was n great vie i tory. tOn. and WEpu tn2 last whistle i had sounded that told rhe cheering scholars that tLr game was at an eni. the score stood 70 to 6 in favor of the Waterbury boys.
 | Hundreds Of scholars and teachers 1 also left the city this morning on the G.333 and S:12 trains. and they were all bound for one destination. and that was New Haven. Into Now Haven from another direction came another train load of High school foot ball players aud their aGmiring friends. This was the Meriden contingent that Wis supposed to lay the coIors of the 1,-..r on Yale field. When the two opDos- ing factions had assembled out on that field that has been the scene of so many hard battles. the cheers of the enthusiasts of each team echoed and rC-echocd over the field, and the echoes were waited into Waterbury and M"ridcn and told the friends at home that the battle was ready to be- gin. Before the game all dispute as to the protested players by NeriGcn was S9+tlod, for the principal of the Nicri0 Il High school was conyinctl that each member Of the team was q bona tidc student and was eligible to play on the team. When this had been settled the friends Of each team l%eparated and then began the cheers from this side and that as the boys prepared to do battle. The girls were there ill force and their bright but anxious faces added to the beauty ot the scene and made each team work harder to win the smiles Of thc female portion of the gathering. When thC two teams lined up for play il was seen as once that each member had been trained to perfection and tbnt it would '" q battle royal no onp'u0ubt- ed. and thc result. Willie not cIosr one. was I bitterly contested ono.
 Meridcu won the toss and to0N the north goal with the wind i'll her favor. F. Byrnes kicked off and Brown catches the kick. but was G0wnel in his tracks hy Ryrnes. Mcriden tried the line and gained one yard. West puutpd aud T.. ByrneS catches the kick. but was downed before he could make q gain. The bali was on the twenty yar;i line when Walker went around | right end for five wards. F.. BErnPS | went thruU@h jha center for five more, and then Walker pushed through the l center for ten yards. NJ. Brynes then hit the line fer fifteen yard,; and T.. | RyrnCSN went through the center for | five yards more Hart and NJ. ByrEeS then went through the ceuter for five 1 yarlS each, and with only One-hIif yard 10 go Meriden hollis the Water bury lads at a StandStill w. ThOmn- son is then sent back and is sent for ward acan for a gain of five wards. and he i% doWned within a few inches of the goal line. Hart then goes around tho line for the first touch down. and the Waterbury followers shouted themselves hOaTSp. The time was 10:GO Ryrpeg; kicks the goal and the score is G to Q in favor of Water bury.
 West again kicks eff and 2. Byrnes taking the kick is dOwned on Meriden' $ twenty-vard line. Tn the miXup that followed Heaton was pulled from Un- der the crowd almost iuSansible and was carried from the field. Hart now @nt the ball and dragged the whole i NpriIcn team, who were hanging to his back for d gain Of five yards
 Walker skips around tho right end and @ained fifteen wards. Hart and F, Ryrncs went through the center f0l
 rains of two and three wards. W
 Thompson gets five wards more by q nvottv run, Waterbury now tried
 Merillcn's line bat the NToridans held
 fhem Walker skirted the right end
 fer two vards more. AEerideu gets the
 ball for the first time, hut F. Brrnes
 taciles the Meriden fullhack in beau
 tifM manner and Meriden gains noth . 1 ing. By center nucking Meriden gains
 five yards. Rraiuard gets two more vards. but is given bad down by W ThomNsAn. By the hardest kind o
 work Meriden then gained five wards
 and pushes the whole Waterbury tean
 for threa wards. They skirt Water
 fa1rys left end for five yards and Cul = haHe tackles and downs them ant 7 savcs tho ball from being carried over I Gains of Meri!ten throu@h tha richt ant
 left ends and Merden has tho hail o1 the five yard line. Tie hall is fOrcet
 10 the one yard line and here Meridal r fumbles. hut falls on the ball. Tn
 referee allows the nlay and q lnn " wr.an~le followed The ball is thel forced over the line for a{eriden's frs q, touchdown. time fourteen minutes , and West kicked the goal and the SCOT
 was tied
 Meriden Ticks off and Waterhur
 fumbled and the bail was on Water
 bury's two yard line. The Waterbur
 hoys played desperately now. an
 Walker. getting the ball. slirted th
 bunch and aided hy splendid interfel
 ence by ". Thompson. he ran tn