New Britain herald., 1926-11-08
ALI NEW BRITAIN SKAMPS
 NEW LONDON TEAM B TO Q
Locals Flash Marvellous Game to Beat SubBase Eleven Three Touchdowns Made By Forward Passes Thompson Rushes Almost Entire Length of Field For Another Count-"Happy" Grswold Gets Into Scoring Column By Kick After Goal

The All-Ncw Britain football team, flashing the greatest game ahy team
 has shown in this city. literally tore
 Q strong team of sailors from the
 Submarine Base at New London, to
 bits yesterday afternoon at Memorial
 Field and swamped Lieutenant
 Mather's best team in years" un-
 der 33 to score. Three touch-
 downs through spectacular forward
 passes. one with Captain Eddie
 Barnikow going through center and another with Thompson rushing the ball from the 25-yard line oversthe opponents line. gave New Britain fans the confidence needed in the team that will stack up against Null ligan's Hartford Blues this week
 The greatest backfield a local team has had performed before a crowd of 1,2oo at the field yesterday and. strengthened by the addition of Ed die Collins. who played here last year. the team ran away from the New London eleven. No fan in the city could criticize justly the work of the team and although there were those who have chosen their stars from yesterdays game, it was the same case as last year, an eleven man team that played for New Brit ain yesterday. Whether it was the first string team in the game or the second string with Boomer" Dill working the signals from quarter back, it made no difference to the local players. because they fought just the same and continued an un- advance to the opposing zeal line.
 Collins. Sturm. Hunt. Thompson. Darnikow, Holzheimer and all the others worked in :he scoring plays. Happy" Griswold got into the SCOT ing column with a point after touch down after he had made two first downs on plunges through the line. Hunt and Holzheimer gave as pretty an exhibition of catching forward passes as ever could be seen and Hunt scored two touchdowns and one on passes that seemed impossible to catch. It was Hunt who caught the first pass to bring down the ball where Captain Barnikow could ram his way through without a man touching him for the first score of the game. Collins kicked the goal.
 This came in the second period and the work of Jumbo" Gnasnow in opening up a hole that Barnikow walked through was the feature of the game. A short time later, "Butsy' sturm hurled another for ward like bullet to Hunt who ran 20 yards for the second score.
 The feature play Of the game gave New Britain its third touchdown. On one of those funny criss-cross plays, Collins hurled a pretty for ward pass to Holzheimer who caught it on his fngertips and races over the line.
 "Red' Steudtner got into the game In the third period and showed that he has the stuff if he will only get the chance to show it. Red" knocked down several passes on the defense and when given the ball, brought the crowd to its feet by his spectacular running around the ends. In the third period. another pass from sturm 10 Hunt from a fake kick formation, gave New Britain touchdown
 Then the fourth opened up and saying he wanted to get into the scoring column, gave beautiful exhibition of running. Starting on his own 25-yard line, he carried the ball successively down the field. Twice Griswold took the ball for plunges through the line for first downs and once Red" Steudt- ner skirted the end for a nice gain. Then Thompson cutting through left tackle time after time. getting up from tackles with a laugh on his face, carried the oval to the sO-vord line.
 Then with spectacular cut through left tackle and through the entire New London team, Thompson raced 30 yards for the final touch- down. Three times he appeared to be down. but he wasn't and he was clear when he went over the line. Happy" Griswold showed that he can dropkick beautifully by putting the ball eleanly over the bar.
 Jumbo played scintillating game at guard. Time after time he stopped plays coming through his position. He made several tackles by catching his man by the arm, but once he got hold Of his man, he held him. Donlon was taken out after a short while because the coach wants to save him for Hart ford. None of the New Britain men were worked 10 their limit because Coach Dave Hayes always had the Hartford game in mind.
 Collins pulled tho best play of the game when, after Sucking in" the back on line plunges, he punted from quarterback away down the field and "Hiker" Holzheimer fell on the ball on New London's four-yard line. Here another punt gave New Britain the ball on the sailors 3o- yard line and paved the way for an- other touchdown. Perfect machine work by the entire team gave New