The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-21
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By YIN MALONEY

Local football enthusiasts will have busy weekend this week with Wilby slated to meet Torrington at the Municipal Stadium on Friday and Leavenworth scheduled to clash with Weaver at the Stadium on Sat urday afternoon.
 Wilby downed Commercial of New Haven at the Yale Freshmen field last Friday afternoon by a 12 to 6 score and will be slight favorites, on the basis of their past record, to upset the Torrington Apple Cart. Leavenworth has won its first three contests of the season by downing Manchester, Commercial and Ham, den and Will be an odds on favorite to topple the Hartford array.
 Crosby, after it's 12 to victory over the Abbey Prep school of Sims bury, at the Municipal Stadium last Saturday afternoon will be favored to whip Naugatuck when they meet at Recreation Field next Saturday afternoon. The Blue and White lost their first two games of the season to Torrington and Taft respectively and then minus the services of their first string fullback, Bernie Lawlor and one of their regular halfbacks, John Chick" Kelley Jr., who was benched for the past two weeks with injuries, bounced back to upset the favored Prep schoolers. To date this season Naugatuck hasn't shown much power either in the line or in the backfield departments and as a result will be the decided underdog in it's forthcoming clash with the Brass City aggregation.
 According to the statistics the three local football combines should have good weekend of it with Tech favored to whip Weaver, Wilby slat- ed to edge Torrington and Crosby favored to beat Naugatuck. Local football fans can take in the Wilby game on Friday and then pick be- tween the Crosby game at Nauga- tuck and the Leavenworth clash on Saturday. Yes, local football fans will have very busy weekend.
 Crosby Wins First
 A touchdown by Crosby in the second and final periods gave the Ivy football array first victory of the season as they beat the Abbey Prep school combine of Simsbury, 12 to 6, at the Municipal Stadium last Saturday afternoon before more than 500 football enthusiasts.
 After having battled through a scoreless first period the first Blue and White scoring chance was set up early in the second period, when Crosby and the ball on the Abbey one yard line. The Ivy fumbled this chance away but minutes later drove deep into the Prep Schooler's ter ritory and scored their first touch down. After receiving the Abbey punt at the midfield stripe Chick" McWilliams and Nick Barone al- ternated to carry the ball to the visitors 30 yard stripe. On the next play Johnny White sliced off left tackle, reversed his field and eluded the Abbey secondary to march to the Abbey nine yard line. The Ivy were moved back to the IA yard line on an offsides penalty but White drove to the eight on the next play with Barone going to the two on the next chance. White pulled over for the first Crosby score and Davis boot for the extra point was low.
 In the third quarter both teams remained scoreless while in the opening minutes of the fourth stan- ga the Abbey aggregation took to the air in desperation and scored their only touchdown.
 After an exchange of kicks, the Ivy gained possession on it's 45 yard line but White fumbled and Dowd recovered the ball for Abbey, On the next play Johnny Carroll heaved long pass to Dowd on the IS yard line. Carroll then tossed another pass to Kerwin on the 12, before he pulled his way to the Crosby two yard stripe. Carroll then crashed through the Ivy line for the score. Crosby again took possession of the tal on the AS yard line and moved deep into the visitors terri tory before Davis went over for the daridi,,cy t011rhdouyO