Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-02
THE GRIDIRON
NO SCORING IN
 YESTERDAYS GAME
All Waterbury and Naugatuck Are Evenly Matched Films Beat
 StarIishts in Preliminary.

erbury and Naugatuck failed to score at Rockville yesterday afternoon be- fore a crowd of about 1000, whC shivered during the greater part 0. the contest. There was much rough house" from the beginning of the game until the last play had been made after which "Cooney" Rice in. cured the displeasure of number of spectators and if he had not been taken to the dressing room small sized riot would undoubtedly have been the outcome. "Cooney" is said to have made the crack that he would lick any man on the field and apparently number wanted to take shot at him. "Cooney's" little mixup was not the only one that say. ored of the art of self defense. The players, or at least few, seem tC take as much enjoyment out of mix, ing it up as playing the game Strenuous Foley was removed from the game in the second half by Um. pire Bowling, who caught him land. ing a left hook on DeVane's jaw Bowling immediately ruled Foley out of the game notwithstanding the vigorous protests of the Waterbury players led by Captain Cronin. But Foley had to go. The ball at this time was on Waterbury's 35 yarG line in their own possession, but the umpire did not give Naugatuck the penalty of half the distance to the goal.
 Yesterdays was the last game ot the season and it was not a very good exhibition of football to those who really wanted to see the game played as it should be. In the first place in. stead of having the game started al about 2:30 it was 3:45 when the first half began. Moreover wher two elevens are evenly matched the teams should play full game that i. halves of thirty or thirty-fve min utes duration. Yesterday the first half was twenty minutes and the sec ond fifteen minutes, thirty-five min utes in all or half a regular game.
 Although Waite and Bowling have officiated as wei as any mer could under the circumstances ant have given by far better satisfaction than those who ruled at the game last year, nevertheless the players al usual were at all times willing t( find fault. They have enough, ol should at least have enough of brair matter in their craniums to know that continual wrangling in tim, kills the games. The good player! for the most part dislike this con stant nagging of the officials and tht sooner the offenders get over thi practice the better it will be for tht game. Talk about juvenile team! chewing the rag," well some of tn, players in the game yesterday talked more at random than children in ; kindergarten. As for the game itsel Waterbury on the offensive was faI superior to Naugatuck, and should have made score. Naugatuck's lin, as on Thursday was strengthened b! two "rubbers," Keane and De Vane two college men, presumably iron Brown. Of course they were no members of the varsity, but are saiC to have been on the scrub. Keant did not play the slambang gam, which he put up on Thursday, bu De Vane was right on to his job yes terday. He evidently was getting il some good work for Lou Cronin wa entangled with him on several oc casions while one time he hit Hoff man with so much force as the bil full back was putting off a punt tha Hoffman made grab for De Vane' neck but the player was not to b. grabbed. Naugatuck could not mak' first down during the game and 1 was only seldom that they made 1 yard at all. Rice was again at quart CT, but he was awfully slow in get ting his plays of and there was con siderable fumbling. It would havt been much better to play Ashmore a quarter back and COOney in the bacl field where he would get a chance o doing some of his sprinting. Nauga tuck's only chance was long end rum or some fake plays, but poor judg ment was often used and the ligh backs were sent into Waterbury line of adamant only to be hurled back many times for a big loss. Wat erbury's best chance to make a toucn down came in the first half with Onl! a few minutes to play. With tn, ball on Naugatuck's Is yard line al attempted kick by Rice was blOcke, and as the ball rolled along thu ground Buckley fell on 1t when i was ten yards from Naugatuck' goal line. On the next play RoOnel of Naugatuck was of side and Wat erbury was given five yards of pen alty. Only five to make and thre, downs to make it in, it looked might, good. But as usual the player clustered around Legge instead 0 telling him TO go ahead and run hi team and there was a delay 0 ''steen" minutes between each play The result was that on the three at tempts Waterbury made about twt yards 4 moment later Rice bO0te, the leather from behind his goal I'm out of danger. It was a lost oppor tunity but NaHgatuCk must be prais cd for the stand that was made.
 Coming on the end of the seoon, half Waterbury started an attacl which would undoubtedly end in touch down if time had allowed Bu after LeEge by a neat run had car ried the ball from the 40 yard ehzll mark to within twelve yards Q Nsugzfuck- goal the whistle of th timer sounded In a way it is fOrtu nate that it did for the falling dark ness was fast snvsIOqInz the feh