The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20
TIGERS
 FAST BUT NOT
 HEAVY ENOUGH
VOegthe to Kick and Pass :; Crosby and Wilby GO
 Next Week

Forced by circumstances and the size of his material, Coach Bill Tracy of Leavenworth will feature speed rather than strength when his Tigers take to the football field to- morrow and for the remainder of the season. Shelton High is the par ticular opponent Saturday at the Municipal Stadium, the kickoff slated for 2:30 o'clock, after which the Crosby-V -Villanova head man of athletics at the Technical High school will have 8 fairish idea Of what he has to use against such formidable future foes as Manches- ter, Warren Harding, Crosby, Bris- tol, Wilby and Milford.
 Aerial attack and end around plays will probably have prom inent part in the Leavenworth off, fense. In the first place there are but four lettermen from last sea- son and around one of them, CO., Captain Frank Lazesky, Coach Ira cy and his first aide, James Harp" O'Neil, have formed this years grid iron edition of the Tech Tigers.
 Little is known about the situa- tion in Shelton, except that the burg across the river that separates it from Derby has been seriously foot ball-minded for two or three years and might come up with strong team as did Derby after being kick ed around for many season. Joe Zilaro, Dan Romaniello and Tobias Evetts are the other veterans" on the Tech squad.
 Wants Youngsters
 Coach Tracy intends to use as many freshmen and juniors as pos Sible. LazeSky has been moved to fullback from guard and is the best ball carrier and only regular back to return to school. Nick Santopietro, a senior is playing his first year of football, Kozen Soph and Voegtle a senior are backs, the latter. to do the kicking and passing, Manton, a junior, looks good at quarterback with Overton, a senior being the only experienced quarterback, who needs to add speed to be more eff fective in his signal calling work.
 Crosby and Wilby which will not open the season until Saturday, September 28, the Schofielders at Norwalk to meet Ike Kern's we'll drilled lads and Wilby against Gill; bert of Winsted at the Municipal Stadium.
 Coach James Wiltshire Lee of Will by has small squad this year built around Captain Dick Alverez, former end who will probably do backfield duty this season. Kruse, Salvatore, Overton, Dalton, Calo, and the Patierno brothers are back for action since last season with graduation last June costing Lee the following footballers: Captain Mike Mobile, Georgie Jones, Jack Brickel and ''Metesky, all backs; and A. Bartkus, Gualducci, Ness, Santoli, Zastury, Rigon and Wrinn all line men and lettermen.
 Coffey, Goggins, and Billy Kalosky at end, Lattanzio at guard and Caf- frey, Thomas and Burlenski, backs are the best looking of the new ma- terial which gets its first test against Gilbert next week. Last year Wilby won but one of g games, drop- ping seven and tieing one. This years team averages 163 1-2 pour with 165 pound line and a 1892 pound backfield. The footoall pros poets for this season are somewhat brighter" said MT. Lee after the first few workouts of the Wildcats, and with daily drills, the lads will be ready for Gilbert and this time, the game is not under lights as was last years contest which Wilby had Sewed up until the last 40 seconds of play when a pass and score cre- ated tie game.
 New Backfield
 Crosby lost it's nifty backfield four, Bill Mancini, Joe Margolis, Bob Be- land and Walter Adomaitis, but Coach William Kilroe Schof1eld is not bit Gil Dobie-ish since he has seen the new talent which will be formed around George Brown, a speedy ball-carrier, as shifty as a shadow and almost as difficult to bring down. Billy Vassalo, George Avery, Eddie Harrington, and Bun- ny D'Augustino but it seems Cros- by's real strength will be in the line composed of Captain Frank Sugrue, Bredice and Walch, ends, Margolis, tackle, Cruess and O'Neill, guards and Kenny, guard or center. Mo- Nerney, a transfer student from Pawtucket, R. l., Truelove and Loef- fer may also turn out to be prom