New Britain herald., 1927-11-07

for a defeat last season when it rode rough shod and unmercifully over the Silvertown Independent eleven or Springfield to the tune of six touChdoWwns and six points after goals. The score of the game was 42 10 in favor of New Britain.
 The versatility Of the New Britain attack did not show itself until late in the game but only lack of time prevented the big red eleven from rolling up a record score. Had not two injuries in the first period dls- concerted the team and broken up its team play temporarily, the local chargers would probably have start ed scoring in the first part Of the game and made the entire affair a farce.
 Jim Manning had two fingers on his left hand knocked out Of Jolnt though not broken and he was forced to retire from the game shortly after it had started. Leary. star end, followed shortly after with bruised ankle. Both of these men reCuperated from their injuries sui ficiently in the second half to return 10 the game and do devastating work against the invaders.
 The Springfield team was sure oi a victory yesterday, Manager Cassidy even going so far as to predict that his team would win by six touch- downs. II was q sorry prediction be- cause he picked the right number of scores but the wrong team.
 It would be hard to pick an ln- diyidual star because of the eAcel- lent team work shown by every man on the eleven. WerWaiss appeared in the role of end yesterday and lils plav could not be bettered by the regular wingmen. Conkln also re- lieved Bingham on the left wing and his work was Of q high class order'
 No mere words could describe the wonderful work of the Dackhclh' Graham piloting a dashlng quartet of charging supermen flashed long runs himself but he vas greatly aided by the work Of his mates III interference. -Four touchdowns were made by line bucks and tackle sllces and two were made on clever for- ward passes, one to RadzeWlch ana inc other to the incompara Die I.eary. IL was Lcnry who paved lhe way for Radze wichs run Of DO yards by knocking out q tackier Of 'he Springfield team and II was NC" Britain's interference and S'fdlShI right hand jab that would nave hone justice to Gene Tunney himself n'ade by Leary as the last man nlado lunge at him. !. Now Britain was working slo"ly fter Manning and Leary had i'1V the game in the first period. lheli suddenly Graham started things hy snnoding his way through tackle Tor 4o wards before he was do"heu' New Britain then eXperlchceh series of penalties that lost lhehl pround time after time. Thompson 1 followed Graham with an ii-Earu dash. At this point. McHugh start ! ed passing badly and Red oN'i who was being saved for the bach- 1 field. was sent in. Sprlngheld got inc ball but "Shep' Bingham ln'er- ! e pted forward pass. Radze"lch sl,irted around for eight yards ana "Rutsy" Sturm made it first do"f' ! \a,c Britain was penalized TOT oli- l side. Graham made five yards anu 'Raddy" went for first do"l4. Thompson sliced through tackle TOT ] 20 yards but New Britain was pehal- ] ized 25 yards on the play.
 Radzcwich returned the compH- ment by making 15 yards and l Thompson tore through for d first | down. Graham and Thompson made five yards and "Butsy" Sturm again i piled through for first down. Sturm i bucked center for two yards and | then Radzewich sliced tackle for touchdown and Graham kicked the point.
 This completed the scoring for the first half.
 Second Half
 Radzowich kicked off and 1t was only a short time until New Britain scored it's second touchdown. Spring. field got the ball on 2 kick but Thompson intercepted a forward pass and carried it 10 Springficld's o0-yard line before being downed. Manning was back in the game and he piled through center in four smashes to make the second score and Graham kicked the point. No further scoring was done that guar ter and New Britain was leading l4 10 0.
 Third Quarter
 Then New Britain started in with everything it had. The Springfield line was battered and worn. Gra- ham had missed an attempt at d placement late i'll the third period. Then after on incomplete pass, Gra- ham shot another aerial to Leary who made first down. Graham shot another to Thompson who barely
 missed a first down and Manning plugged through for the necessary yard. Graham then standing on his
 
 4 touchdown of tho year by slicing through right tackle. and reversing
 10 the left of the field and getting clear for the third score of the
 game. He also kicked the point
 Graham shot another forward to
 l.eary for Il first down after the
 kickoif. Ora ham made another by an eleven yard dash around the end. Graham then shot q long forward to
 Radzewich who took it on the 50- yard line. Iearly came with him and knocked down a Would-be tackler and "Raddy" didn't stop un- til h, had crossed the line. Again Graham's toe sent the ball over for a point.
 | Springfield again kicked and Gra-