The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-05
Tech Us. WLby SideLine SLdntS
By YIN MALONEY
Tech 13: Wilby 0.

| 1ecn lo. WllDy U.
 Taking things in their stride and achieving coordination between the backfield and the line, was the story | behind the story of Leavenworth's 13 to victory over Wilby at the Municipal Stadium last Saturday afternoon. Approximately 1,5Oo over enthusiastic fans saw well-bal- anced Big Red squad outplay an inexperienced Wilby combine which had yet to learn the hard way that complete coordination of the line and the backfield must be worked out before good results on the grid iron can be obtained. Early in the first period on an attempted pass from Buggy McGrath to Mario Quattro over the mid-field stripe, Bernabe of the Big Red intercepted and sprinted 55 yards for the first score behind heavy camoflage set up by the Tech forward wall. Again in the third period Leavenworth nov ing together in force recover ed tumble by McGrath on the Big Greens 35 and drove to the 10 yard line via the ground route where it lost the ball on downs but recovered it again on the very next play when Jake Law Tor fumbled and 1t was recovered by Rudy LaLiberte. Big Nick LoRusso, throwing his weight around, drove to the three yard line from where Miklenovich went over for the sec ond score on the next play. In suc- ceeding plays Wilby drove deep into Big Red territory but failed to score via the air route to Quattro in the end zone, after three forward passes fell incomplete, eXtinguishing the Big Greens last scoring bid.
 THE FANS CORNER
 (Ed Note This part of the col umn is written by the fans, for the fans and to the fans in hopes that they will obtain a more intimate knowledge of the local gridiron luminaries)
 T Believe:
 That Nick LoRuSso, Dave Kikle- novich, LaLiberte, Santagotta, Gar assino and Gugliotti established the liason between the backfield and the line which made possible Leaven- worth's stunning victory.
 That the Big Red, under Bill Tracy played better than average ball in both the Crosby and Wilby games in which the City Champion ship and 20 points towards the Al Kellie Memorial Trophy were at stake.
 That Bill Tracy when questioned on the possibilities of his opponents before game time is always very non-committal.
 That many fans at the local grid- iron classic expressed the pre-game opinion that they would rather be at the side of their radios listening to Navy and Notre Dame battle it out. But when the results were in and 1t was revealed that it was 6 to tie between the Irish and the Middies, some fans were glad they went to the fast moving Tech-Wilby contest.
 That Prof. Jim Murphy was spectator. at the game, although many were given to the idea that he may have been scouting Wilby for the Thanksgiving day contest. Coach Murphy expressed the thought that there was very poor crowd at the game. And for that matter that the games in Water bury draw very small throngs in comparison to some of the high schools which are playing Sunday afternoon ball in Massachusetts. (Ed Note: We are inclined to agree that Sunday ball in Waterbury would definitely, if anything, be an aSset)
 That Codianne, Quattro, Datelle, Cavanaugh and McGrath sparked thhe Wilby attack through the air and although they were outplayed by a bigger and heavier Big Red squad, they did credit to themselves and their team.
 That Saturdays contest would have been somewhat different if Buggy McGrath had been worked into the Big Green strategem at the preseason training sessions.
 
 That Wilby completed out of l6 passes during the contest, while the Big Red squad was unable to con- meet after five tries. Had the Wilby line been able to hold up better against the Big Red squad, the Grove streeters aerial attack might have fared somewhat better. 
 That the Wilby squad on last Sat- urday could be compared to the 1 Maugatuck team which faced Crosby at the Municipal Stadium week ago. They both had weak lines and better than average backfields. And