Evening star., 1941-10-19
Sailors 2.7eam
System Wears
Down Big Red
Boothe, Busik Shine
As Ithucuns Wilt
After Fine Sturt
Bv FRANCIS f. STAN,
Star staff Correspondent.

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Navy's most highly -touted football
machine in IS years met the first
of six successive major tests today
in municipal stadium and triumphed
over Cornell, IA to o, in game
which found the superior manpower
of the midshipmen paying big
dividends.
Before $4,000 spectators, includ-
ing Lord Halifax, British Ambas-
sador to the United States, Cornell
outplayed Navy by a wide margin
in the first half and left the big
crowd wondering during the inter-
mission If the midshipmen had been
overrated because of smashing
earlier triumphs over William and
Mary. West Virginia and Lafayette
Navy answered the question. at
least in part, when Maj. Emory E.
Larson's squad resumed play Just
as Cornell always was on the offen-
sive during the opening 80 minutes,
Navy took and retained command
throughout the final half, marching
Al yards in half a dozen plays mid
way of the third period to take a
TO lead and showing across a final
period touchdown after capitalizing
on an intercepted pass.
Navy Power Slows Cornell.
Cornell may not have been the big
red of 1888, 1899 and 1910. but
despite the loss by graduation of 20
lettermen Coach Carl Snavely sent
a smart. f1ashy first-string team in
the field and it was this combina-
ton, featuring pair of versatile
backs in Lou Bufalino and Ken
Stofer, that did everything to Navy
in the opening periods except back
the middies out of this big wooden
bowl.
There were times during this first
football contest between the two
teams that Navy appeared especially
vulnerable to a passing attack and
if Stofer and Bufalino had not over
shot their marks a couple of times,
Cornell might well have scored IA
points for itself. Cornell's receivers.
especially Roy johnson and Ray
Jenkins, consistently were outspeed-
ing the Navy secondary to get into
the clear.
But in the end the Navy's strength
prevailed. Maj. Larson at regular
intervals shuttled his two evenly
matched teams to and from the
bench and when Bufalino, Stofer
and Co. began to slow down from the
punishment, Cornell was finished for
the day.
Busick. Boothe Fool Big Red.
As a matter of fact. Cornell was
finished a few moments after the
kickoff starting the third period.
The big Red team from Ithaca took
the ball on the 20 and drove up to
the 45, but Navy braced. forced
Stofer to punt, and thereafter Cor
nell was unable to do much with
the MidShipmen.
Navy's counterthrust after this
Cornell march also was stalled, but
on the exchange of punts that fol-
lowed the Middies got the better of
it-and the ball on the invaders Al.
And it was here that the men from
Crabtown displayed their power for
the first time.
Sammy Boothe and Barnacle Bill
Busik ripped through the line to the
81. On wide sweep around his own
left end, Busik reached the % and
big Alan Cameron hit the center
for first down on the 18. Up to
this point Navy had relied on Moth
ing except sheer power, but, with
the ball on the 18, tactics were
changed and on a reverse which
fooled the entire Cornell team, Busik
handed the ball to Boothe, who
swung wide around his left end and
found himself alone.
Not hand was laid upon him as
he sprinted across the goal line.
Little Bob Leonard and his ball
holder, Alex Zechella. jumped from
the MILDLY bench and added the
extra point, the fourteenth time in
18 attempts this pair had converted
successfully.
Shared Pass Leads to Score.
Cornell carried back the next
Kickoff to its 80, but as soon as the
bdI was SIOuIlueu lT6Sn NAVY
team entered the game. This had
been going on all afternoon and as
the game wore along it was more
and more apparent that Larson's
two-team method was the difference
between the two schools.
The weary Ithacans. who gained
a net Of only 81 yards by rush.
ing, realized that the aerial route
was their sole chance to tie or win,
but Navy's secondary appeared to
be playing smarter ball than it did
in the first half and began to in
tercept the heaves.
The third intercepted pass in the
final Is minutes set up the second
score After Cameron had punted
into Cornell's end zone, giving the
Red possession on it's 20, the left
handed Stofer tried a pass and
Bob Zoeller, crack Navy end, grabbed
it and threaded his way to the
enemy TO- Starting another series
of ground thrusts, Navy twice sent
Busik with the ball under his arm,