The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-01
FINAL SCORE 81 TO 8


From the starting whistle up until
the very end of the Naugatuck-
Crosby game staged at the Municipal
Stadium yesterday, that traditional
rivalry htred very evidently, on the
playing field as we'll as among the
over jealous fans in the stands.
In this half of century old feud
which has been on by both squads
from year to year, was swept into a
miniature riot every time either OF
the opponents made a showing OF
scored.
The angle that figured the decisive
win for the Rubber City boys mainly
was strategy and physiology, which
was applied in large measures by
Coach Pete Foley of Naugatuck
Pete who has been scouting Crosby
for the past two weeks at least
realized that Crosby had a very
sloppy aerial offensive and also a
very sloppy defense against an
aerial offensive, thus he unleashed
during this ball game an aerial blitz-
krieg against the Blue and White
combine that they were unable to
check sufficiently to win.
Examples Of this one-sided strug-
gle, perhaps I should not say one
sided, but instead fruitless struggle
which Crosby waged via the ground
route. In the first half of the ball
game Crosby spanked by Rosa, Nc
Donald and Hornbecker, through a
series of first downs drove into en-
envy territory, but through lack OF
an aerial offensive, and enough
driving power were unable to score
The first score of the ball game was
marked up by Naugy in the late min-
utes OF the first period, when the
Rubber City combine unleashed Its
aerial attack, starting 1t Off when
Bill Heating, the fleet Naugatuck
back through q high forward pass
to End Rucchio, who went so yards
and over for the touchdown, making
1t to 0. On the attempt for eX-
ira point Heating tried TO kick the
point but was forced by the fast
Crosby tacklers to run the ball over
successfully making the score to 0
The first blood OF this age old feud
was shed by Crosby, but the game
was still young,
A little doWrhearted, but neverthe-
less more determined than ever the
CROSBY boys entered the second pc
Rod with plenty Of vim and vigor
but once again 1t did them little
good against q seasoned Naugy COM
bine.
In the early minutes OF the secont
Rosa made some desperate plunge!
netting Crosby about 20 TO 30 yards
and on q reverse play around end
from Rosa to Mcdonald, Mac wen
80 yards setting Crosby IN scoring
position on the Naugatuck 30 yart
line but failure to drive, halted
their scoring threat for the time
being. But now 1t was Nauey's first
opportunity to really show in this
contest, when Schiller ran about IL
yards for the Rubber City's COM
bine first b.eal; through the Crosby
defense, but this threat was also
halted by a predetermined defense
Of the Blue line. Later In the last
minutes OF this period Heating OF
Naugatuck intercepted Crcs:y for
ward pass, running 1t back about 20
yards putting them in pay dirt as the
whistle blew, ending the half, the
score 7 to in Naugy's favor.
During the half time intermlssion
on browsing around the stands. ]
bumped into Billy Schofield, and his
two Lovely young daughters. I asked
him what he thought of the con-
test? He said, II think that Grossly
ought to show better in the second
half. They ought to use few more
passes" How does 1t feel to be