Saturday night’s Greenwich-New Canaan showdown was hyped as a heavyweight battle of two premier FCIAC football programs.
And for the 3,000-plus fans that packed Dunning Field, the Cardinals essentially scored a first-round knockout, racing out to a 21-0 first quarter lead en route to a 42-14 rout of the Rams.
“That was a butt-kicking,” New Canaan head coach Lou Marinelli told the Advertiser. “They were like a machine. You can’t make mistakes against a team like that. They jumped right on us and never looked back. We could have given them a game, but I don’t even know what to say. Give them all the credit — that may be the No. 1 team in the state.”