Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-28
ON THE GRIDIR0N
St Thomas Cadets Victorious Over
 Company A.

I Under cloudy sky and on a muddy. sloppy field the St Thomas Cadets football team defeated the Go A elev- en at the Athletic field yesterday af- ternoon before a crowd of about 2,0O0 people, 1,6OO of whom had paid twen- ty-five cents to see the game. Tester days contest was the Yale-Harvard game of the local season. The cham pionship of the city and of the state went to the winner and therefore each team was most desirous of winning. | The game was hard fought and was replete with brilliant runs, tackles and formation plays. Throughout the first half the teams battered each oth- CT, but neither team was able to score, although the Cadets lost the ball once on Co As 15-yard line and again on Co As 8-yard line.
 Words cannot describe the wild scene which followed the only score made during the game, a touchdown by ID. Cronin of the Cadets after near ly nine minutes Of play in the second half. Pandemonium broke loose. Hundreds of people rushed onto the field and fairly smothered Cronin
 Captain Hoffman and the other Cadets It was several minutes before the shouting and cheering subsided The Cadets had a great team in the field and clearly outplayed the military boys in all parts of the game. Their team was much better. though their interference became entangled several l times. It was a very hard fought game. The men were battered and bruised, knocked out now and then. Time and again, a terrific attack would be made on the opposing line by either team and then came struggle l of the brawny players. What either team gained. it had to fight for every 1 inch of it. The Go A team would no doubt have made 1 better showing if it had been run different than it was and if it had an- other end like Bauby.
 There were several new faces on ] both teams. McCabe of Holyoke, Mass, center on last years Holy Cross team; Herr of Dartmouth. Hotchkiss and Peters of Ansonia, played their l first game with the Cadets this year. Crowley, F. Bauby, Slavin and Bar rows of Yale played their first game of i the season with Company A. Cronin, Hoffman, Bagley. Stein and Hotchkiss played great football for the winners, and for the losing team Slavin was the bright star. Hannon, Barrows. Crow l lev and Bauby also put up fine game. 1 The betting on the game was little compared to the betting on last years game between the same teams, which was won by the Cadets by the score of 6 to 0.
 About 2:30 Barrows kicked off for l Company A. Stein caught the ball on l his twenty-yard line and ran the ball forward for five yards before he was tackled by Slavin. Hoffman and Bag I ley bucked the line for six yards and 1 then Stein, whose playing was bril- liant, tore through left tackle for 8 gain of fifteen yards. Hoffman went through right guard for five yards and l Stein bucked the left side of the line l for three yards. D. Cronin, who sell dom failed to make his distance went around left end for eight yards, and a minute later Bag1ey plunged through right tackle for two yards, and the ball went to Company A on tumble near her ffteen-yard line. On the very first l play Company A fumb1ed, but Stout fell on it. Stout bucked the left side of the line for two yards and Barrows made a dive through center for first down. Slavin made 11s yards through right tackle. At this point Chatt1eton I was laid out for the time limit owing I to crash in the head. Slavin squeezed l through an opening between the left l guard and left tackle for two yards, .l and Barrows struck left tackle hard I enough for four yards. Stout went l through the same place for two yards on a tackle back play. McCabe was 1 laid out at this point. On the next | HOtchkiss stopped BarroW's plunge before he made any gain. Cadets re- I ceived the ball in Go As 35 yard line
 for holding by Bauby. Baglev buck ed the line for four yards. Stein only
 made two yards through left tackle owing to good tackle by Stout. Hoff-
 man tore through center for four yards Bagley made no gain through
 left tackle and Hoffman hurdled the
 line for three yards Stein made two I yards through the left side of the line
 and Cronin made four through right
 tackle Cronin bucked the line for
 one and one-half yards, Slavin making
 good tackle. Hoffman gained two ' yards through right guard and Cronin made no gain in trying to the left end
 Bauby bringing him down with a fine
 tackle. Bagley squeezed an opening
 in the right side of the line for two
 yards Cadets lost the ball on Go As 10 yard line on a tumble. Stout made
 two yards and moment later made three yards through right tackle. Bauby trien an end run but he was thrown almost as quickly as he got the
 ball. Barrows punted to Hoffman on l Co As 25 yard line. Hoffman fumb- led but T. Cronin fell on the ball.
 D. Cronin lost two yards on an end run. Bauby was knocked out for a short time. The Cadets tried an at- tack on the line with no gain. The
 half ended with the ball on the Go A p yard line. 4 Hoffman kicked off to Slavin on the five yard line. who ran the bali for
 ward ten yards. Slavin bucked the q line for one and one-half yards and Barrows for two yards On a tackle
 back play Stout gained one and one
 half yards and on the next play Han- non tore through the line for five
 yards. Barrows squeezed through the
 left guard and left tackle for one yard.
 Stout took advantage of an opening through left tackle for three wards.
 Kane made no gain on the next play
 and the ball went to the Cadets. The
 Cadets fumbled but L. Cronin fell on
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