The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-24

lIleluulHk buHHAHpFV hVVbpuH WFllVH ho has continued to play for the past several years, both In Nauga. tuck and Waterbury,
 From tho i044 football squad, Coach Foley has lost no less than i4 players, some of them outstanding In football competition last season, Ills number one setback this season was Jack Stinsen, speedy ball-ear- Tier and passer, who WIll Do about as easy to replace as Hiroshima, after that little atom bomb dropped from the belly of c superfeFt, Stins son is now at the Admiral BuilisS naval prep sehool, somewhere in Maryland, apparently hoping for an Annapolis appointment, with the aid of U, s, Congressman Joseph D, Tal- bot of Naugatuek, Then there was chet Yaeek, another stellar i90 pound ball-eaFFieF, who won q fem- inatien to the U, g. Military Aea. demy at West Point, after pFepping at Maillard School, Washington, D, O, He VII! probably enter the world" famous school Of generals in sep- tember, ie47
 Charley KeVit, an excellent end, RatkyWieh, Smith and O'Dennell, also ends are out of high school since last season, Barbour, a tackle, is in the Army and also among the missing is & 930 pound tackle, SteibeF; e subseenteF, Anderson, and his starting i044 center, Kuezinski 100 peundeF, Phillips, Lawton, Leut and JuFzinski are also gone; while Gel and 209 pound Natowieh Is In school but not yet in Q football uniform,
 However, no one In Naugatuek is "eFying" nor is MT. Foley doing anys thing but drilling his new charges daily, unless rain inteFfeFes, and after Q closeup view ofs his first seFimmage, the writer will venture to predict that Naugatuek will not Dc tFampled upon by any and every oppeh:nt t faces, starting with Derby, on Saturday, September 20, There's ono unit Of backs averaging i90 pounds that is apt to do better than hold It's own" against almost any opposition. Waiiy Armonah!s, Ghet YuseaVage, Jack cuddy and Don swanson are the names and TO, 100, i86 and i95 are the weights in that order,
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 YuseaVage, a Beacon Falls boy, who has transferred from Seymour High to Naugatuek may very well be the "solid man" of the Naugy back. field for no seems to have plenty of football "Savyy", loves the game, can use c "StfaightsaFm" like 6 Green Bay Packer and has strength to burn. He shapes up as a superb iine-piunger. Armonaitis, c biocky, deceptive back, who can follow in- reference nicely and then go Ion his own" when in opponents terFi- tory will also Do quite c cog in the Foley grid machine; while sWanson's kicking is said to be better than fair ct this writing,
 Foley and football Fundamentals are synonomous; for the coach in" sis1 that the boys learn the game from the ground up" and woe be to the indlVidualist or "grandstand- CT" who departs from such instruc- ton before or during a game. Block ing by the linemen and backs Is also Q Foley must" and there are not half -hearted" blocks tolerated, for If boy does not block correctly ana hard, he will be out of the game and on the bench for @ mild tongue flashing so quick It will make his head swim.
 For many years, In e certain spot Coach Foley, through his field quar- terback, calls for the nloss-covered statue of liberty" play, and, though every coach in the country from hamlet to metropolis knows all about 1t and how 1t has worked for 20 years, Foley's kids get away with 1t more often than not. Though outmoded as far as modern football Is concerned. it's very age and dar- ing execution, constitutes an ele- ment of surprise that has rival coaches shaking their collective nog- gins a half dozen times or more each season. Coach Foley teaches the sin- gle and double-wing formations. | WltQ SllkHC VdElhbtOuSS 4SeAA1S t1Aue the so-called T-formation is too complicated for proper execution by high school boys, especially early in the season.
 Though Naugatuck won but five of eight games last season, losing three, the l944 team had the un- usual distinction of scoring 52 points against Crosby and Leavenworth by l4-O and 38-0 scores, without being scored on by its Waterbury rivals. NGugatuck did not meet Wilby, though scheduled, as Wilby dropped football in mid-season and then rec sumed again. but did not play the Naugatuck gaines. Ansonia, which has replaced Srosby as the team