The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-04
West Haven Opposes CrosbyHere

The crusny High football com. bsne will meet the very strcng West Haven gid aagregatlon in the only ncholastic fcotSail coniest vcheduied nt the Municipal Stadium this week. The Wilby High football team travels Co Middletown' to meet Mid. dletown High, while heavenworth will meet Naugatuck at Recreation Field Saturday afternoon Coach Pete DrAginis'. Torrlngton High football combine win 70 Co nanbury on Friday afternoon Co meet pan- bury in a night game while Cheshlre Academy will meet the Trinity Col. lege Jayvees on Thursday afternoon ct the Choahlre Field.
 The Wilbg High football combine scored Q touchdown ln the final per- iod of play, to break the existing e-0 deadlock, and upset the highlys touted Leavenworth High grid ag. gregatlon, i2 to 6, at Municipal ste. diurn, Saturday afternoon before approximately $500 excited fans, From start to flnish, this was by fer the best game to be played ct the Stadium during the last two years. For Tech, the defeat was the first of the season in i've starts, while for the Green and White it was the fourth triumph in seven contests, All Che traditional rivalry and local color, which goes with these rntra- City contests, was evident in Satur- days game.
 In the final minutes of play the Engineers drove to the Wilby one. yard line but were unable to score because the time ran out. Several untimely penalties were the main cause of the Leavenworth defeat as they stemmed several Big Red drives.
 In the early minutes of the second period, Wilby's Jimmy Ahrens picked up Perrone's punt after 1t had oinced of his chestb and ran from the wilby 26-yard line, Tl yards for the first Green and White score of the game. Tn the next few plays Wilby looked as though they would tally another touchdown in that same period, but Steve Perrone intercepted Don Belanger's long pass on the Leaven- worth two-yard line to end the therat.
 In the third period Leavenworth gained possession of the ball at the midfleld stripe and drove for first down on the Wilby 2l.yard line but were moved back to the 46 on holding penalty However, in the next two plays, IIoRusso, Leavens worth'S ACE" bacakfleld man, moved the ball back to the 3l, from where LoRusso then tossed Q pass to Perrone on the 23-yard line, from where the Tech quarterback scamp cred for the only Leavenworth score. The try for the point was no good.
 A Leavenworth tumble in the d- nal quarter set up the deciding Wildcat score. LoRusso fumbled on the Tech se-yard line and Codiani, the Green and White center, recov. cred for Wilby. After Becchia and Datelle had reeled of six yards in the next two plays, Becchia con- nected with Sullivan on the le for Q first down. Another pass from Bec- chia to Sullivan played the ball on the Tech six-yard line after two plays had been run olf, as the per- iod ended. On the first play of the final quarter. Ahrens raced around the left end of the Tech line for the deciding score of the game.
 "Big" Nick LoRusso was the best back of the afternoon, while Paul Iannaccone and "Ace" Bernabe played @ good game in the Tech forward wall. Ahrens, Belanger, Datelle, Becchia, Darlington, Brown and Harris Knight excelled for the yictors. The score by periods.
 T.EAVEMKORTH