New Britain herald., 1928-10-22
MARATHON
STAMFORD BRUSHES
 HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
Smash Through for Victor! in
 Final Quartsr, %S

three quarters or the game tO kHlIo through the New Britain high school line, the Stamford high school foot ball team. with the aid of two bad punts was able to break . 6 to 6 tie and score three touchdowns to win 26 to 6 in a game played at Cum mings park. $ lmford, Saturday aft crnoon.
 The New Britain high school team, the underdog. the crippled squad of football taleaA the lighter and slower team. had 8 golden opportu- nifty to win the game or to tie the score but the better team found New Britain's weakness and the better team won.
 New Britain's weakness is its backfield. This fact has been notice- able not only in the Stamford game but also in every game to date. The backtield has little punch on the offense. It has been slow on the de- fense and its principal weapon of offense, the line plunge. is not very effective when it is called upon too often. There seems to be no end running ability in the backfeld. Poor judgment in the second half had great deal to do with the de- feat. Every time New Britain would gain possession of the ball after its | d-workinE line had held for downs it would punt back and the task of holding Stamford was aga in left with the New Britain forwards.
 In this way Stamford had plenty of opportunity to see just what part Of the line was weak and to decide upon the most effective attack. It soon found out it could do nothing on line plunges or off-tackle plays and the only other means Of gaining would be to try to out-punt the op- ponent or 10 throw forward passes. Sowka was out-punting his Stamford rival and the forward passing at- tack was decided upon, and Oh. what fatal decision this was for New Britain.
 The to tie stood until the final minute in the third quarter when Stamford carried the ball across the goal line on straight football in a march from midfield where sowka had kicked offside.
 In the final quarter the bottom fell out of the game. Three times did the Stamford team cross the New
 Britain goal line and two of these times counted as scores. On the th'rd occasion the team was called back for a 15-yard penalty for hold ing. Llone who with Hanrahan were Stamford's offensive stars car. ried the ball across the goal line on forward pass but 1t did not count, ftanrahan took the ball and circled New Britain right end and Hender- son, colored end. scored the feature touchdown when he took q 35-yard pass and ran 15 yards for a touch- down.
 The two scores which kept the teams deadlocked through three quarters of the game came in the second period. Stamford was hope- lessly outplayed in the first half and. New Britain had scored four first downs to one. but a lucky break came 10 Stamford in the form of an intercepted pass.
 Lione gathered in the ball on New Erltain's first forward pass and ran rom his own 15 yard line to the goal line for a touchdown. New Britain came right back and march, ed from Stamford's 45 yard line to the goal line and scored on its fourth down.
 All the credit in the world should go to the New Britain line. The center, Frank Casale. had about two hours sleep the night before with an infected finger nail which made it necessary that he hold it straight. Despite the handicap he made only one bad pass during the game. He was up against one of stamford's star men. its center, who was tall, rangy, and heavy. The two guards, Dumin and Mix alauskas. were in there substituting for Nevulis and Kuhs. who were out for the day and they were towers of strength on the defense. The tackles. Szymanski and Ludwinowicz were strong on the defense, but much of Szymanski's good work in crashing through was marred be- cause of his high tackling. "Penoke'' Ludwinowicz played the best game | this him at end the Stamford team stay ed away from that part of the line as much as possible. Bogdanski played well at times, but his inexper- fence caused him 10 make plays which will not be made by him in future games, it is expected. The backfield could not seem to 1 defend the forward passing attack of Stamford and when a Stamford man caught a pass none of the backs l were fast enough 10 catch him. Their method of handling punts is very
 poor and none of the teams most loyal rooters can feel confident when the ball comes to the receiver. Give the New Britain team some | coaching in tackling and with loyal training and greatly improved of
 fcDsive play it should be as good as
 any of the high school teams in the state.
 Stamford at the present time look
 to be the best bet for the state title
 It has a backfield of -four horse. ! men" who are shifty and clever but
 the line is not as good. The dowr
 state team won despite the handi caps of penalties. Stamford team
 was penalized for total of S5 yards
 five 1o yard penalties and two pen
 alties for offside. Ii scored six frs
 downs to four for New Britain. Al
 of New Brtain's first downs came ir the first half and only one was col.
 lected by Stamford in that part ol
 the game.