New Britain herald., 1923-11-08
MUCH INTEREST IN
 GAME WITH MERIDEN
Silver City Boys Always Certain
 to Provide Hot Contest

The Meriden High school football team, the team that held the Hart ford High school to scoreless tie, will be the next opponent for the New Britain High school. The game, which is to be played at Meriden. will have q great bearing on the outcome of the state championship. since Merlden and New Britain arc two of the four leading high schools for the title. The other two arc Hartford and Ansonia.
 \ victory for either team will elimin-
 ate the other in the race for the championship.
 Not sinco tho season opened has there been as much interest in the coming struggle. students, alumni, and loyal followers of the team arc carried away over the prospects of good game. With such an important battle on tap there is bound to be a large body of Hardware City fans out to see the game, Next to Hartford,
 Meriden is the one team that the Red and Gold want to beat. They usually put their best efforts into the game when they arc playing the Red and Gold, but their best will be none bet ter than that of the Now Britain team, in the opinion of many.
 Rivalry IS keen
 The intense rivalry between these two schools has been to a fever pitch
 in the past two years. Two years ago NrW Britain went down 10 Meriden, land hattJed four hard fought periods to a to 'ictoirS The victory was scored whrn "Davc" Nahoney booted .thc ball over for q field goal. Last year Mcriden came up determined to arense the defeat. They fulfilled their desires when they defeated the Red and Gold after one Of the bitterest struggles Of the season. At one stage ot the game New Britain had the game in the bag but lost it in the last few minutes Of tho game. Meriden went through last season without a defeat. This year they have been de- featcd once, by the Springfield College freshman team, l9 10 :.
 This team played q tic game with the Connecticut College freshman team. which Was held 10 tic by the Hardware City team two weeks ago. So it scores arc to be considered, the New Britain team has tho edge on their Meriden rivals hy 12 points, In n recent practice game with the Choato school. Meriden defeated the preparatory school 1e 10 Q. Taft school which gave tho Franklin square boys their only defeat. % 10 c, also defeated Choate 2 10 C. Since Taft has a lead of 2s points over New Brit ] ain and since Meridnn has lead of points over Taft, the results of these hgures would give Meridrn a lead of @a points which does not seem quiet 1 right. hut is true nevertheless. It is ! possible that the Choate school might l not have extended itself in the prac. | tice game, but tho score is the little l thing that decides the winner.
 Since the be ginning of tho season, A | steady improvement could be noted l in the team work from week to week. l Al first they showed little team work. | an unorsanizcd offcnsc, and defence 1 that resen1hled Fl siaye. They manag. | ed 10 E"t through the first two games | m this state without any serious re- 1 suits. In tho third game against the i Taft Preparatory school these many i "eaknessea were brought ont and Inc | team scored only four first downs | They were defeated 26 10 q. Since | then they have profted by their de- | feat and have chalked up. a victory l over the New Haven Hillhouse High 1 school and held the strong connecti- [ cut College freshman team 10 a to i tic, Last week they swamped the Wesleyan freshman team g to Q. ! The Mcridcn game will he another step in the hard schedule they had i to face this year.
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