The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-28
By YIN MALONEY

The Leavenworth High Football squad ushered in their 1946 season at the Municipal Stadium last night with an impressive, 12 to 0 victory over Manchester before 5000 screaming football enthusiasts.
 The Big Red combine, playing heads up football, scored their first touchdown early in the first period after they kicked of to Manchester and recovered a tumble on the wis., iting teams 18 yard line. Big Nick LoRusso, the Tech Tigers hard hitting fullback, took the ball on the opening play after the tumble and went 16 yards on an end run to the Manchester two yard line. From this spot he once again carried the ball, this time through the center of the Manchester line into the end zone for the first Leavenworth score. Nardella came into the Tech lineup to try the kick for the extra point which was blocked In the next six plays Manchester two half f-backs, Bob Gustafson and Charlie Botteron, teamed up to run the ball from the Manchester 45 yard line down to the LeavenWorth six where they were stopped cold by the Big Red line and lost the ball on downs. LoRusso carried the ball from the Tech six yard stripe to the Tech 45 yard line in series or three plays as the first period end ed. In the ensuing plays, Tech was penalized five yards for being offside and were thus moved back to the 40 yard marker. On the next play, Steve Perrone, the Leaven- worth quarterback, dropped the ball because of bad center pass and was nailed by the Manchester sec- ondaries for 20 yard loss, and then lost the ball on downs. Manchester took possession of the ball on the Tech 20-yard line, but lost it on the next play as Tech recovered a fu1n- ble. As the second period ended the Tech Tigers had run the ball down to the Manchester yard line and were threatening. LoRusso was the main gun in this offensive with his dazzling end sweeps.
 Tech Scores in Third
 After Manchester had kicked off in the third period to the Leaven- worth 38 yard line, the Tracymen in about six plays, mostly end runs with perfect interference, marched over the visitors goal line for their second touchdown. Halfbacks Joe Masotta, Dom Martinelli and Lo- Russo, following their perfect in- reference, chalked up the final Big Red score. This made it Leaven- worth 12, Manchester 0. The ball was back and forth and up and down the field for the remainder of this third period but never within close range of either goal. In the first five minutes of the fourth quarter the Manchester backs, Stan Kaloski, Bob Gustafson, Charlie Botteron and Flash" Keeney, got rolling in great order as they open ed holes in the Tech line to bring lllc Ddll lO IIlc 1cCll II yard u1le and within scoring range But on the Il yard stripe the Big Red line frightened to take the ball away from Manchester on downs and thus thwart their final attempt to score. Kaloski made several beauti- ful end runs, with perfect interfer- ence, to keep the visitors rolling, but was stopped after several broken field running sprees. He was removed from the game because of broken collar bone near the end of the contest. Manchester tried to rally in the last few minutes of the game, but Leavenworth got the ball on downs and was headed for an- other score when the game ended.
 There were several spectacular runs during the game on the part of the Leavenworth players and the Manchester boys but it would be very hard to single out the most