New Britain herald., 1926-11-29

The Hartford Blues, Hartford's en-
try in the National football league,
drew first blood in the annual inter-
city series with All-New Britain In
the first game played at the East
Hartford Eelodrome yesterday after
noon A placement kick from the
2o-yard line by Perrin and touch
down by Corgan on a forward pass
from Shrimp" Foley. gave Hartford
10 points which proved to be a win
ming margin. New Britain scored
two points on safety when Perrin
was tackled by Holzheimer behind
the Hartford goal line after the kick
off.
In the minds Of many, the New
Britain team proved an old football
adage by being the better team
though on the losing end. A series
of breaks" with Lady Luck
frowning on their every effort. kept
New Britain from crossing the COW
eted goal line and stopped what ap-
parently looked like a victory for the
Hardware City eleven. An attend
ance which was reported from the
box office as being $500 in actual
paid.in admission. braved the chill
winds of a November day. to watch
the struggle which has given Hart
ford n big edge for the championship
OF the state.
The New Britain backfeld, start
ing with Barnikow at fullback.
Thompson and Collins at halfbacks,
Sturm at quarterback with Eddie
Hunt getting into the game at Il
later stage, was far superior to the
Hartford quartet In all departments
of play. Collins, showing football
ability in every department, was the
big trouble maker for the Hartford
team with his sensational end runs,
forward passes and lengthy punts.
Time after time. Collins raced
through almost the entire Hartford
team for gains ranging from 20 to
50 Yards but these all proved to be
of no avail.
Hartfords first score came as
result of very poor pass by Joe
Rogers, New Britain center. Inc
ball was on New Britain's 30-yard
line with fourth down coming when
Collins dropped back for a punt. He
was kicking beautifully all the game.
getting at least so yards on every
boot. Rogers snapped the ball back
but It went three feet over Collins
head. He chased it to the 10 yard
line and attempted to run it back
but fumbled when tackled and Hart
ford recovered on New Britain's IL
ward line. Three bucks at the line
failed to gain anything and Perrin
booted a placement over the par
from the 2o-yard line.
Later In the same quarter, the
first, Hartford. near midfleld eXecut-
ed a clever forward pass and Fur
lonse Flynn, taking out both BUSY
sturm and POTS Thompson on
beautiful play OF interference. gave
Corgan an opportunity to sprint 30
yards for touchdown Perrin
kicked the goal from placement
making 1t 10 and giving Hartford the
score that won the game.
New Britain's two points came as
the result of one of the dumbeet
pieces Of football seen around here
in some time. Collins kicked off and
the ball went behind the Hartford
goal line. Foley and Perrin went
after it and Perrin caught it on the
first bound. Instead of making
dash for the field where he could
easily have made Is yards into the
omen. Perrin did Charleston behind
his goal line and Holzheimer tackled
him, giving New Britain two points,
its only score OF the game.
New Britain was beset on all sides
by tough breaks" This is not an
alibi, but recounting the game over
the locals lost four chances LOT
touchdow while Hartford's two
scores were gifts. Rogers bad pass
to Collins on the fourth down giving
Hartford the ball and the forward
pass were the two lucky breaks for
Hartford.
locals Opportunities
Eddie Hunt received the kickoff IN
the second half and got through the
entire Hartford team. AS he was
tearing away for the goal line, three
of his own men got In front Of him
tripped him up and as he fell, he