Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-28
THE GRIDIRON
ALL WATERBURYS
 TRIM THE ACORNS
Just By Hair They Get Over the Goal Line and Then Kick
 Goal.

at Rockville when the home team in the first of a series of games defeated the Park City aggregation by the score of 6 to 5. But the visitors claimed the rightf,il score was to 0 in their favor, stating that time was up before the final score. Captain Reilly of Bridgeport also declared that the last play was dead about one foot from the goal line when he says the man was downed, but rolled over But Ted" West of Meriden, the re- fierce said the touchdown was all right and as Official Timekeeper Alex ander of Meriden stated there was quarter of secOn1 to play, the touchdown of course was chalked up and Bridgeport who apparently hau won the game was forced to gulp down the pill of defeat.
 The play which caused the big holl- CT was started about seven yards from Bridgeport's goal line and came in the last minute of play. It was third down and Waterbury had five to make with very poor chances of getting It Tanner, who played his first game with Waterbury yesterday at right half, asked for the ball. He hit the i left side of the line and did not stop until he had been showed over the chalk mark. It was just as this play was starting that Timekeeper Bald win for Bridgeport walked on the field and said time was up. Ot course after the play the usual wrangle made it's appearance and if it were not for the presence of a couple of ot1cers there might have been swatfest in the nature of a punching bee. The Bridgeport players did not want Wat erbury to try for goal and when 1t was being placed one of them gave 1t a kick. There were things doing for a few seconds.
 It was in the nature of a hollow victory for the locals for during the second half when all the scoring was done, they were played of their feet. In the line up of the visitors were Curley and Casey of tackle and guard of the Villanova team, and what holes those fellows made. You cer- tainly could drive a team Of oxen through if necessary. It was seldom during the second half that when the necessary distance was needed that the left side of the line failed to open up. And the Bridgeport backs took advantage of these openings and gave the rooters for the home team heart failure on several occasions when the man with the oval would dart from the bunch down the field until he would encounter the man playing back. Curley and Casey thought it was great fun-for them.
 This new man Lavery from the Berkshires who played fullback Tor the Acorns, is d good one and was Tn the game for keeps. Almost all the old team was in the game including Duhigg and Kecko, who are still among the first rank as ends. Quinn and Musante, the old tackles, were on the side lines-but not in uniform.
 Although Waterbury had much the better of the first half in the second half the Acorns started with such a rush that the locals seemed for a time to be going backwards. The play which did the damage was a beautiful run for about sixty yards by Lavery. The ball was on the Acorns twenty-five yard line when Lavefy was sent between Curley and Casey Cyou should have seen the size of the openingl, and he was not stopped un- til within twenty-five yards of Wat erbury's goal line. On the next play Reilly endeavored to skirt the right end. but seeing that he was blocked he turned back and darted through the field for the distance tc the goal line. It was the first time in two years that the Acorns had made a score against Waterbury and how 'tickled" the Bridgeport dele gation was. Waterbury was down ir the boots.
 But Waterbury then showed there is really good stuff in their make up. Hoffman getting the ball on tht kickoff on his five yard line trotted hack for thirty yards before he came 10 earth. then Waterbury by straight football. good hard line plugging only three or four yards at a time, brought the ball to within about fifteen yards of the visitors goal, First it wa: Jack" Bagley that was sent through then Hoffman would take a plug al center, Tanner would look after hi: distance when pushed through a di agonal and Ed Farley seldom failed to gain when given a chance to carry the ball. With the pigskin on the fifteen yard line Waterbury had about five to make third down and the Case seemed hopeless But here was work cd one of the neatest plays of tho day. \ forward pass was made, not a long one. but more than the dis itsnce. White" Reilly catching thu ibalI and holding it securely on th, seven yard line Waterbury theT pushed it over The score:
 AH-wateTbury- Ac"rns-
 RipIIy .................. Duhize Left end.
 Farley. Brandt ----.......... CuFIey I Left tackle
 Rranit. Wentworth ----..... Casey
 Left guard
 Porter ...--.-----. M- Sullivan i Center
 4 D. Cronan .-- T. Sullivan. MeCormirk .A RIza1 guard
 H&LE3sl NA ------ Hfzht tackle
 .iL- Croaan ----------------.. KecEo 4 Right e1l
 q MEwsEW r LA-A 0usrteThsck-
 . Joe BazfeT- Jzek BagiEy ---. Reilly rH Left hzLfhark
 Rarura ------------ Ste1Fzn- Si-rrtr H Right hslfback-
 Ho4Dz1 --------------.-..- LaNeE4