New Britain herald., 1926-11-22

yindication of the most decisiv'
 sort came to the New Britain higl
 school football team Saturday fol
 lowing it's crushing defeat of th'
 Hartford high eleven and the plac'
 that Hartford held year ago is nov
 occupied by a mighty proud Hard
 ware City squad by virtue of a 20 tt
 z win in the annual clash played a
 Clarkin Field.
 Like an averaging army, the Rec
 and Gold squad went into the game to wipe out the stigma of a horrible
 defeat of last year, and at the las
 screech of the whistle the slate wat
 wiped clean and once again the
 hearts that a year ago were sad
 dened, are gay and rightfully so. Ii was more than a football game tha, was won on that sea of mud which was the scene of the annual classic It was the regaining of an honor lost the previous year and the ascension once more of the throne which was set so high through the past 30 years by the still remembered stars of another day.
 In the years to come, there will be no one man remembered except by the closest of friends, as the hero of the battle Of 1926, but it will be the team. No one, two or three men stood out above the rest. No star showed more than the other. From Captain Claire at fullback who so valiantly led his charges In the fray down through the halfbacks, Matulis and Zaleski, to Quarterback Fengler. the backfeld shone out brighter by far than the opposing team. But it was New Britain's line that gave the backfield its chances. With Frank McGrath at center Erickson and Bruce at guards, Brombers and An selmo at tackles and Gordon and Zehrer at ends, no one man can be picked to take the glory for a win. The tackles and the ends bore the brunt of the attack on line plays, hut 1t was the center and guards who had to stop the mighty Gallivan who, alone of the Hartford crew seemed able to do anything.
 Hartford was the first to score and 1t proved to be a good thing for New Britain that the forward pass after the bad break on a tumble and a penalty which put the Blue and White team within scoring dis tance. was made good for a touch- down. because after that there was TO stopping of that band of doughty warriors led by Captain Timothy Claire.
 Coach George Cassidy may well exc aim that this years team was the best he ever had because It was up against team that was no weak ling. This was proved when on two occasions New Britain was inches from scoring but could not plunge through the stonewall defense set up by the Hartford team. It was head work and wonderful coordination that sent the ball hurting through for touchdowns five in number though only three were allowed.
 It would be unfair to every man on the team to select any one or two as the main reasons for New Britain's great victory. Rather let IL be said that the entire team brought home the victory. Let each indlVl- dual man on the team be designated as the star that made the victory possible and justice win be done to each individual. Every man worked as he should and it was wonderful night and wonderful ending for year filled with hopes and doubts.
 Bromberg and McGrath got into two plays, both of which resulted in a towndown, that gives an idea Of how the New Britain line was charg- ing thtough the Hartford forward wall. They blocked two punts, one when the ball was near the Hartford goal line and the other near the same spot. On the first, Bromberg recovered and scored a touchdown and on the second, Gordon got the ball but slipped in the mud and was pulled down before he could get away to the back line. If was tricky play that gave New Britain another score when the team lined up spread out far and wide as if for q lateral-forward pass and Matulis went through, being scarcely touched. It was a blocked kick by McGrath that gave Claire the op- portunity of slicing through for the other touchdown.
 Over 10000 people watched the game and the New Britain stands were as noisy this year as Hartford's were last year while Hartford was silent, moro so than New Britain on that fateful day in 1925.
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