Navy at Princeton

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1940, page 1

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  Navy Continued From Page B-6.) an intercepted pass had put Prince ton within scoring position. Navy had taken the KICKOFF and completed two short passes when Don Allen, sophomore center from Bloomfield, N. j., intercepted pass thrown by Bill Busik, sensational Navy back, on the Tigers ~. Princeton Takes Lead. Dave Allerdice, crack senior half back of Princeton, opened q passing attack, threw first to Capt. Howard Stanley and then to Paul Busse, fullback, to put the ball on Nays 80. Bob Peters, 6-foot 3-inch halfback, wormed his way to the II and here the Tigers neatly shifted tactics, Peters dropping into the tailback position, taking an end run, and whipping a perfect pass to Bob Jackson. substitute halfback from Whitman, Mass, who caught the ball In the end zone. Jim Aubrey, senior end, missed the extra point. Navy battled back, marching to Nassau’s Is in the same period, but losing the ball. The second quarter was uneventful but in the third the Middies began to roll as they unleashed a newly-found offensive. Busik, standing deep in his own territory, took Princeton punt and carried it back to his go Alan Cam eron. q new back from the Uni versity OF California, ripped of 20 yards in two tries then broke loose again for a gain terminating In his lateral to Busik, who fought to the Tigers 81. Navy Gets Across. Cliff LEM, veteran back from La trobe, Pa, was the next Navy back to cut loose, swinging around his own right end. stepping beautifully around a horde Of tacklers. and A. nally gaining the 3-yard line. From there, after two line plays, Busik shot a pass to Left End Bob Zoeller for the tying touchdown. 1t still was a tie after Vito Vitucci, a guard, missed the extra point, but it wasn’t tied for long. For within two minutes after the next KICKOFF Busse punted over the Navy goal, giving the Middies the ball on their own 20, and the attack was on again. Passing, lateraling and rushing, Navy moved to midfleld, where a new team took over. Howard Clark, another new Navy back, took Busilks place and whipped two passes-one to end Bob Froude and another to Halfback Phil Cutting, putting the ball on Princetons 10, from where Clark, on q double reverse, raced around his own end to score standing up. Tars tumble Near Goal. This made it 12-6-after another try for the extra point failed because Of a bad center pass-and Navy still was charging. A blocked kick gave the ball to the Middies on the Tigers % as the third period ended and at the start of the fourth the Severn eleven reached Princeton’s 7, where Busik fumbled and the alert Allen recovered on his own to relieve the pressure on Princeton. That was the ball game. In vain the Tigers tried to shake the speedy jackson loose, or to hook up a long pass by Allerdice, but it was no dice and the end came when one of Allerdice’s long heaves finally was intercepted by Cutting.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Northwestern, Penn A n d Stanford Take Top Rank In Their Respective Sections NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-R-The countrywide collegiate football pic ture, as confusing as an unassem. bled jigsaw puzzle before the sea. o started, is settling into some sort of definite pattern after the week-end’s games. The largest single pieces of reshuffling were achieved by North western, Pennsylvania, and Stan. ford-the Wildcats with their Ga conquest of Ohio State W h i C h pushed them a notch up and the Buckeyes a notch down in t e western conference ratings; t h e Red and Blue in a 50–⁠7 crusher of Yale, which combined with the Princeton’s 12–⁠6 defeat by Navy to make Penn rather than the I’ll gers loom as Cornells main Ivy league rival. Stanford by nosing out Santa Clara, rs, to emerge as the west coasts only unbeaten united team. On an afternoon marked by brilliant individual exploits, North Westerns Bill DeCorrevont was a blond ball of fire that blazed the victory trail for the Wildcats. He was the offensive and defensive standout as his team moved UP in the big Nine” to join Michigan, whose Tommy Harmon a h s three-game scoring count to SO, points in the $50 win over Har. ward; Minnesota, which rested ur for Ohio State, and Iowa, which served notice it will be in the run ming by following fullback Bill Green to a 30–⁠12 walloping of Wis consin. The rest of the mid-Western sit utation appears to be in the hands of Notre Dame, which used its regulars sparingly but for three touchdowns in turning back Georgia Tech, 1920, among the lin DEPENDENT and of Nebraska, which passed its way to a 13–⁠7 conquest of Indiana, in the Big Six. At the top of the Eastern heap are Penn and Cornell. While Penn was handing Yale the worst defeat in Eli grid history Cornell was rolling up a As : 0 score, worst ever pinned on the Army. Frank Reagan might be singled out as the Penn star, since he scored three of the seven touch downs. But while we saw Cornell play, we couldn’t attempt to single out any one man for the Ithacans. Theirs was a triumph of t a m play by a team that had every. thing, and we expect>to go a long way before we see another like it There are others not to be over. looked in the East. Fordham made the most of its chances, including the fine blocking that helped Jim Noble return a punt 81 yards for the first touchdown, in avenging a 1889 defeat by Tulane, 2O-7. Boston colleges Charley O’Rourke had another fine afternoon as Bos. ton won over Temple university $50. Navy, already a proved de. fensive power, numbered It’s Of fensive guns for 70 and 80-yard

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  The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 14, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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  Football Scores SATURDAY, Oct. 12, (P) - Michigan State 20-Purduc Il Columbia 20-Dartmouth Colgate 20-BroWn 3 Navy 12-Princeton 6 Fordham 20-Tulane ‘ Southern Methodisct Pitts burg ‘ Syracuse AZ New York Uni versity 13 Cornell 45-Army 0 Pennsylvania 50-Yale ‘ North Carolina 21 - Texas Christian II Holy Cross 18-Carnegie Tech 0. Michigan 26-Hardvard 0 Boston College 33-Temple 20 Nebraska 13-Indiana 2 Notre Dame-26 Georgia Tech 26. Southern Cal. 13-Illinois Ohio State 3-Northwestern 6 Mississippi 28-Georgia IA Missouri 24-Kansas State l3 Wisconsin 12-IoWa 30 West Virginia 13-Penn State IT, Auburn 7-Mississippi State ‘ Lake Forrest 0-Clemson 39 Tennessee 53-Chattanooga 0 Oklahoma 16-Texas 19 Kentucky 7-Vanderbilt T. Washington 10-Oregon 0. Gonzaga 25-Idaho 0 Washington 9-California 6 Stanford 7-Santa Clara 6 Texas A and M 7-Ucla 0

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Princeton leads 18–⁠12–⁠6 in 36 meetings, counting the eight since this game.