The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-28
HEAVY HARDING
 TEAM DEFEATS SCRAPPY NAUGY
Tumble Costly to Foley Boys as Visitors Win 26
 tO l9 Saturday

NaugaIuCk, OCC. ZHs-x0e NaugHe tu:k high school football team on edge for its next game at Torring- ton gave one of the greatest ex- hibitions of courage and refusal to be beaten Saturday afternoon against the highly -touted Warren Harding high of Bridgeport, and although defeated by a single touch- down, 26-19, hopes for their suc- cess in futureb attles of the season are quite bright
 Too high praise cannot be heaped on this group of II youngsters who with few substitutes outplayed a team that outweighed them at least l. pounds to the man, and which only the previous week had held the state champions to a 6-6 tie. Hard Luck
 Except for two bad breaks, the locals would have at least tied and might have won. Shortly after Nau- gatuck had surprised the visitors by getting the jump and scoring an early touchdown, Sugrue, Nauga- tuck captain and end, funlbled a pass right in his hands as he stood on the goal line and sure score was lost.
 Soon after this Harding swept down the field with an irresistible attack to a score and tie it at 6-all. Many thought the expected run- away would then start, but Nauga- tuck immediately took the offen- sive and George Allen, who scintillated for Naugatuck through out the game, grabbed 8 pass which Harding player had deflected and scampered down the field with the fleeter Bridgeporter at his heels.
 Time Saves Harding
 Allen realizing he was not as fast, weaved to the right, then to the left and gained ground. Final ly the Bridgeport runner leaped toward him and just hit him hard enough to make him lose his bal- ance. Allen had taken the ball 60 yeards to the 7-yard line.
 Here Harding stiffened but a penalty on the fourth down gave Naugatuck the ball on the four yard line. They made first down and had four downs ti make two yards. One plunge picked up one yard and just as they were prepared to go over, the half ended, preventing another sure score for Naugatuck.
 Soon after the second half start- ed, Kelleher turned in 8 neat 60 yard run for Hardin to put the ball within scoring distance and took 1t over soon after. Here again 1t lock- ed as though Naugatuck was through for Johnny Crosby who had made fine gains for the locals was injured and removed from the game. But Griffin fumbled on Harding's 40-yard line and Leary tossed g. lateral to Sterniak who heaved 8 forward to Allen. Two Bridgeporters were covering the semall local player but he snatch ed the ball and galloped to score. This tied things at 12-all.
 Weight Tells
 The effect of the weight differ- ence was evident in the final quar- ter. Hoja who. was outstanding for Bridgeport, intercepted a pass by Sterniak and raun 80 yards to score.
 Soon after kelleher sprinted | around left end to chalk up what | proved to be the winning goal. With | only two minutes. to play Sterniak to Allen pass connected and brought the ball to the Harding four-yard line from which Allen plunged over.
 The Naugatuck players showed much more dash and better tackling than they had displayed before. There were 998 paid attendance and altogether about 1900 saw the contest. Naugatuck plays Torring- ton at the New City next Saturday. Harding (26) (l9) Naugatuck
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