The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-29
Crosby -Wilby SidelightS
By JOE NOLAN

Local footballs "dream game' was just a nightmare for Crosby. Yet the Blue and White lads didn't know when they were beaten, and got up off the mat to rally bril- liantly in the third and fourth per- iods. The 60 score would seem to indicate that it was love set, which it definitely was not.
 Betting odds favored Wilby at 6-5, and the Blue and White didn't ap- pear to have any more chance than a paper hat in hot shower. Crosby was first on the field, and a suspicion existed that Jimmy Lee was holding his boys back so as not to frighten. Bill Scho1eld's young gentlemen Just as the officials were beginning to compare watches and exchange worried looks, Captain Dick Alvarez came out on the run leading the Wildcat squad They looked like huge, hungrey fellows who had just heard the dinner bell and weren't going to miss anything.
 Crosby kicked off and in the fist few minutes it seemed that Wilby was going to take the ball right past their opponents goal and out for picnic in the open fields Sur- rounding the stadium But fum- ble thwarted this offensive threat. :. The boys had considerable difficulty holding on to the slippery pigskin, and all because Referee Fay Vincent wouldn't let them drive nails into It.
 The Blue had no sooner launched an offenSe of its own when Wilby'S Norman Duncan leaped into the stratosphere to intercept pass .. From then on it was Wilby all the way That is, all the way to the one-foot line. That was as close as the Wildcats could come to pay dirt during the first half The trouble with the Crosby team was that 1t was making too many magnificent goal line stands When their backs were against the wall, Margolis Barrone, Walch and the rest did a really swell job But making goal line stands is something that team can do too often in one ball game Besides, it's lots more fun playing around the other fellows goal once in while.
 After the tea interval, operations were resumed and it was then that manual mistake turned the tide | in Wi1by's favor Unable to gain along the ground, Wilby punted to the Blue 30-yard line where safety man Ed Harrington dropped the ball at the wrong time From there 1t was just short haul over Crosbys goal, with Dick Kruse carrying and Alvarez and Salvatore cleaning out | the defenders. Halfback Kruse was having a great day, so much so that Crosby partisans suggested that a chap who was having all that fun should have paid his way into the game.
 Crosby came back strong in the latter part of the second half, with Joe Vassalo and Frank Sugrue sparkling the attack. One drive was halted on the 12-yard line. and an- other on the IS Deep in Wilby territory, the Crosby running game stalled mulishly, and the Schofield- men were forced to resort to passes watch those passeS!" screamed an aroused Wilbyite "Just one of the ushers getting his instructions, '' snapped a grandstand funnyman.
 This has been poor year for field Into, each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary," this on lateral from Longfellow. The bunting of Win Bredice kept the Blue well in the game Tt was practically impossible to pick a Wilby star They all played strong game in unison 7. From the beginning they acted as though it was their game and they were going to take it away with them. Which they did.