Evening star., 1939-11-26
Sailors Are Helpless
As Peters, A|Ierdice
Make Long losses.
Three Touchdowns Come
From Passes; Plunge
Gets Last Score
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Star Staff Correspondent

ball campaign among the elite OF
the East today with brilliant aerial
bombardment which stripped the
Navy's decks and brought a 28-to-0
victory before $4,000 spectators.
Down on the frozen turf in Palmer
Stadium a pair of rubber harmed
passers, Dave Allerdice and Bob
Peters, gave a remarkable demon
stration of long-range bombing
which completely bewildered Navy's
secondary, scored three of the
touchdowns and paved the way for
the other.
Sharing honors with Allerdice and
Peters was a lanky junior end
named Howard Stanley who caught
the fire three touchdown passes and
probably would have completed the
scoring If he had been in the game
when the Tigers pushed over their
last-period marker.
Midshipmen Never Threaten.
The Midshipmen, without victory
since they won 14-to-12 decision
from Virginia on october IA, never
seriously threatened outside of a
few long runbacks of kick-offS and
puntS. Navy, tied by Dartmouth
in a scoreless struggle and beaten
successfully by Notre Dame, Glenn
son, Pennsylvania and Columbia
prior to todays game. seemingly
had no means with which to combat
the Nassau air attack, which ac-
counted for 1875 yards.
Peters, tall, rangy 20-year-old
from Kingsport, Tenn, started the
aerial circus late the first period
after a punt exchange. A long pass
to Left End Jim Aubrey put the ball
on Navy's 28 A single thrust was
directed at the Middies' line, then
Peters lazily faded far back, sur
veyed the scattered field ahead of
him and whipped beautiful pass to
Stanley over the goal line.
Princeton's Passes Long.
Allerdice, who left the game
shortly afterward with an injured
shoulder, passed for the second
touchdown in the next period, and
just before the half Peters came
back with another bulls-eye to the
incredible Stanley. This ended the
half with the score at 21-0.
The last touchdown came in the
fourth period when the Princeton
eleven was sprinkled freely with
substitutes. An even dozen of the
Nassau squad was in uniform for
the last time and all of them, in
cluding the injured Capt Robert
Tierney, got into the game Tierney
entered with seconds of play re-
manning and time left for one more
play.
There was nothing dainty about
the aerial warfare carried on against
the Navy. When Allerdice and
Peters threw passes they went for
distance. Peters first touchdown
pass must have travelled As yards
through the air to Stanley, who
leaped high just after he had raced
over the goal line.
Hinchman's Goal Try Fails.
In scoring the second touchdown
Princeton used the identical
formula as was used to get the first.
The only difference was that Alder
dice did the heaving. Allerdice, a
Junior from Noblesville, Ind,
whipped two passes to reach Navy S
%. Then came a line thrust and
the touchdown play. The entire
march, by air and ground, embraced
"a yards.
The injury to Allerdice removed
the Tigers most highly rated scor-
ing threat, but today it did not
slow the Princeton attack A few
minutes later the Tigers we're back
in Navy territory and banging away.
They reached the 13-yard line, but
were hurled back. Bob Hinchman,
one of the graduating seniors who
added two of the extra points,
finally took shot at the posts from
the field, but his boot from the 80
was wide.
Tosses Al Yards to Score.
No sooner had Navy taken over
and punted out than Princeton
struck again, this time with the
most stunning play of the game.
Peters carried Halfback Tom
Blounts punt back to Navy's Al and
with less than two minutes OF play
remaining the Tennessean, virtually
unmolested by Navy's forward wall
floated long, high pass to Stanley
The lanky end outjumped the
stumbling secondaries and ran IL
yards to score for the third time.
Only twice did Navy look as If 1t
might score. In the second period
Blount began to run out OF a spread
formation. On three plays he ran
from his own AZ to the Tigers 28
Then he was thrown for three sue
cessive losses, finally fumbling the
ball. The Tigers recovered to end
the drive with all possible flnality.
In the third period, only scoreless
chapter, Navy made its best show
ing. Dick Shafer and Lou Mayo
drove 81 yards to Princeton's rs
where they slost the ball on downs.
The final period found Navy des-
perately trying to score on passes
Deep in his own territory, Blount
threw but Ed Rose intercepted on
the enemy 40 and the Tigers turned
this into score by marching to
the 1-yard line, from where Rose
plunged over.
. The Middies held their own or
the ground, matching Princeton's 1.
first downs and gaining less yare
than the victors' total of 113 II
was in the air that Princeton found
the margin that successfully com.
pleted its best season IN four year!
with the Big Three title, six straight
victories and first rank in the Iv.
League behind Cornell, which II
mid-October won 20-to-7 game Il
mark Princeton's only defeat.