New Britain herald., 1930-10-20

Beaten and battered after a hard afternoon of football but clnging to slim 6 to 0 lead, the New Britain High school football team, through wonderful field generalship by Quarterback Frank Zaleski, manag- cd to defeat last years state cham pionship Stamford team by a to ? margin at Cummings park Satur- day afternoon.
 When the Red and Gold team left for Stamford Saturday it was sur rounded entirely by the darkness of football oblivion. Few New Britain ties gave tho Bassett street boys a rating in the Stamford game The New Britain team had lost two games this year and Stamford had not been defeated in two years.
 It was one of the greatest contests played at the Stamford park and a record crowd was in attendance. The New Britain team made it's score in the second period It took four downs to reach the goal line and when the players were pulled away from the pile the ball was on the goal line. This is regarded as a touchdown and due to the great work of the New Britain line the Stamford team was not able to cross the New Britain line throughout the game.
 Saturdays game was the hardest fought battle any of the veterans of both teams ever experienced, they said. Twice the Stamford team made threats for scores Once it reacGed the 14 yard line and on another oc- casion it was stopped on the five yard line. On this occasion it failed to make foot in four attempts.
 New Britain threatened three times and made score on one of these occasions. The Stamford team made seven first downs. two of which were on penalties and New Britain made six first downs all earned. As was predicted Saturday the forward pass threat of Stamford proved to be a boomerang. Out of IS tries the s. H. s. succeeded in five attempts.
  was furnished by Captain Joseph LudWinowicz of the New Britain team. He intercepted a forward pass that was thrown while Stamford was threatening the New Britain goal line and raced to the Stamford 42 yard line, a sprint of SS yards. A second feature was the run back of hv I'd -lniha, ,tb0 ,oti stopped until he reached Stamford's 1e yard line. The greatest tackle made in the game and in fact one of the hardest seen this season was made by Richie Fink. He hit Saun- ders, Stamford back, and dropped him without a gain.
 Every player on the team did his share in the victory and it would be unjust to name a star. At least once in the game some one of the New Britain eleven produced a feature However, special mention must be made of the fine generalship of Quarterback Zaleski. After the Stamford team had lost the ball in four attempts at the line, New Brit thA 4iou tilC bii llNlit tci'-h oL 6tltlllS the ball away from it's five yard line. !
 After three plays Zaleski told the boys the best bet would be a safety A punt might be blocked so the New Britain players allowed Kloiber to be caught back of his own goal line and two points were chalked up for Stamford.
 The advantages of this play would be that New Britain could kick into Stamford territory from it's own 20 yard line. Because the teams lined up in kickoff formation there wa3 no fear that the kick would be blocked. Once again brains took their place when with seconds 10 so the New Britain team allowed itself to be penalized five yards for taking too much time in the huddle 1
 Captain Best stood out as the hero in defeat. This player will undoubt- l cdly win all-state houors for full | backs this year. He hits the line | like 6 rock and is hard man to bring down. Since he was practi- | cally the only Stamford back who | could do anything against the New Britain line he was used time and . again. So worn out vas he that he had to be practically carried off ! the field when the G&mc ended | Chicatell who vas on the receiving i end of Bost's pas@ca waT cl~o out standing.
 Play By Play Account
 Zaleski caught Stamford'G kickoff and ran to the New Britain 25-vard line. klober hit the line and made four yards. Stamford was offside on the next play and was given a. five yard penalty. Zaleski gained the one yard necessary for first down on a, center plunge.
 Fink made one yard at tackle. Dabkowski made two and Fink made two on line buckc. Kloiber kicked poorly to New Brtains 41-yard line. Fabrizzio, Stamford left halfback. made four wards at right tackle. Blois, right halfback, made five yards but Stamford was pcnalizod T. yards for holding on the offensc. Mlynarski, New Britain guard, made a beautiful tackle that stopped Best before he reached the scrimmage line.
 Best punted to Zalcslii who was stopped on his own 37-yard line. Fink darted off tackle for a seven yard gain. Dabkowski made two and Zaleski plunged through center for the first down. Twice tho fake play in which Mangan is involved was tried and twice it failed to gain an inch
 kloiber kicked to Yadvinsky. Stamford quarterback. who was stopped almost in his tracks on his own 27-Yard line. II was al this stage of the game that Best started his hard afternoons work. IL WAS