New Britain herald., 1926-09-27
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 MATCH FOR LOCALS
Fumbles Prevent New Britain
 From Filling Up Big Score


 the game by team whose defense was perfect and whose offense though weak at times was an i'm provement over its first performance the Holyoke Professionals were held without first down, defeated by a 20 to 0 score by All-New Britain at Memorial Field yesterday afternoon.
 New Britain showed a great i'm provement in offense over the style of play put up against the New Haven Blues, but it is still far from perfect. New Britain scored 13 first down as follows: four in the open ing quarter; three in the second quarter, three in the third quarter. and three In the fourth quarter.
 Tho feature of the game was the Sturm- -Holzheimer forward pass com bination. "Hiker" took passes from sturm for total gain of 12O yards. One of the passes on the 20-yard line from Sturm to Holzheimer net ted a touchdown when he took the ball as he was standing in back of the goal line.
 In the opening quarter a pass from midfleld 10 the speedy left end brought the ball to the 1o.yard line, Tn a neat fake play in which Goldie made a break for left end, turned and threw the ball to Sturm who relayed it to Holzheimer, an other 40-yard gain resulted. The first long pass would have finally re- suited In touchdown if the ball was not fumbled on the 10-yard line The second pass paved the way for the first touchdown. Another 20- yard pass resulted in the second touchdown when Holzheimer made an almost impossible catch of high pass. Hunt carried the ball over on both occasion on line plays.
 The last touchdown was completed by "Hiker" when he took pass in the last quarter. A touchdown was lost in the last few minutes of the game when Brink who substituted for Holzheimer juggled pass as he stood in back of the goal line and finally dropped the ball.
 The line which is wonderful on the defense is mot so hot on the offense. A surprisingly few of the Erct Ia l,tr carried through the line. It ap pears to many that the line is at fault for Silent John" Davis will make gain if he has any coopera- ton and he proved it in the game yesterday.
 Co-starrlng with the famous Sturm -Holzheimer combination was the line smacking of Davis and the running back of punts by Hunt. Hunt figured greatly in this depart ment of play, and it is the opinion of many that he and Davis are right in their present positions. The halfbaclls were a bit off yester- day. Coach Hayes in a desperate attempt to strengthen this depart ment of play put in and pulled out the halfbacks several times during the game. Sturm alone worked well but when he was out of the game the other halfbacks took turns fumbling.
 Goldie started the game. On line plays he was forever missing the hole. Dill went in and he tried sev- eral wide end runs which brought the usual results. Dickerman next. First play he fumbled the ball. Hol- yoke recovered and punted. Dicker- mann took 1t again and fumbled. Again Holyoke recovered and again the halfback position was changed. Sturm went back in. In the mean time Red" Steudtner was filling in at the other halfback and was play ing nicely. He pulled feature at one stage of the game when Hunt was making one of his sensational returns Red" dropped in front of two would be tacklers and dished them both.
 At least two touchdowns were lost by fumbles. In the first quarter with the ball on the 1O-yard line, Davis fumbled on a line play. In the last quarter after Steudtner had received a pass over the line of bringing the ball to with in a few yards of the goal. A fum- ble by Griswold on the five-yard line again hurt New Britain's chances. On actual plays New Britain made six fumbles. This does not include awl1wardness in receiving punted balls.
 New Britain's line was weakened in the middle of the game when Captain Joe Rogers was kicked in the side. The injury was serious and when it was found impossible for him to return to the game. Hum- phries took over the center position.
 Coach Hayes changed his lineup continually. Happy" Griswold took Silent John" Davis fullback posi- tion in the latter part of each half. He displayed much aggressiveness and in the latter quarter scored a touchdown when he picked up a fumbled ball and ran 25 yards to the goal line. It was not allowed however, the officials declaring the play illegal.
 The lineup:
 All-New Britain Holyoke Pros Holzheimer ...le........ Lesser Politis ......,.lt....... Bagg Nanfeldt ,...lg. g...,.. Lcary Humphries .....rg. E. Larriverie Murphy ........rt..... Thompson Charleston .rc........... Pier Hunt .........ob. ........ Clair Goldie ..lhb. .... Schneider Sturm ........,rhb. b....,..... Hull Davis ..........fb.. ... D. Larierie
 Touchdowns: Hunt 2. Holzheimer I. pnols aftor topcb d OWNS NapfeIdt