Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
THE GRIDIRON ALL WATERBURYS
 GOT SURPRISE
They Could Not Score on the Lively ThomasIon Players-0ther
 Games.

The football season was opened in this city yesterday when the All Waterbury football team and the eleven representing the village known as Thomaston participated in contest at Rockville in which neither side scored. AS was expected in the premiere there were few bril-. liant plays, and the game was not as interesting as one would judge from
 the score. Waterbury was just a parody on it's team of year ago, but of course there is no use making con- parisons as yet. It is said that the team has had only three nights oi practice and it was evident that il had not had much more. Thomaston on the other hand has been practic- ing steadily and showed much more life than Waterbury. Though much lighter the up town boys played with much more snap than the home team and had really good chance to score in the first half when they blocked a punt on Waterbury's five yard line. Waterbury's most opportune time to push the pigskin over the chalk mark came in the second half. They had carried the ball about twenty-five yards and had it within twelve yards of their opponents goal. With two yards to go on the third down Hayes was sent through the right side of the fine but he failed to make the dis tance by half a yard. Waterbury was Woefully slow. In their formation plays thy were as fast as snails ln getting together. And when they did get gong, they had little or no inter- ference. They passed men all right but they did not nail them. They stopped immediately when tackled and their general play was ragged. But what S the use of criticiing as yet. They did not lose and that's not so bad. White" Riley, Joe" Daly,who will not play this year, Sheehan, last years quarterback, and Dodds, were out of the game and of course there was a difference. Jack Hannah did not get in until the second half neither did Lou Cronin who has been ill. New men in the local lineup were Hoffman, the old Cadet full back, who the past few years has been with Bridgeport, was at tackle and did
 wei, although as yet he is not famil- jar with the signals and Walter Leg ge, who has left the junior ranks. He was at quarter and although a lit tie nervous got his plays off fairly we'll. But he should eliminate that long signal business and run the team more quickly. Moreover the other players should leave the quart CT alone and not be running to him every minute telling him to do this and that. The forward pass was tried four times during the game but not only worked once. The first time it was used Waterbury made a gain of about twenty yards. The home team endeavored to gain with it on
 two other occasions and Thomaston
 once but each try was unsuccessful. The game was conspicuous because of
 it's cleanness. Mahaney of the local team suffered from contraction of the muscles of the arm after the first
 half and although attended by Dr Keane was unable to finish the game.
 Anderson, right end for Thomaston,
 was knocked cold in a scrimmage in
 the second half and had to be carried
 to the dressing room. It was an deal day to watch a game and about 1000
 spectators were present. The line up.