Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-31
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Army and Navy Foot Ball
Game a Fixture.
NEW ORLEANS RACES
GEORGETOWN MAY NOT ROW IN
PoUGHKEEPsIE REGATTA.
Business Sense Necessary in Base Bali
Peace Conference-Young Corbett
and Rice Matched-Notes.
NEW ORLEANS RACES

A special from Pittsburg says that Capt.
P. E. Pierce, U. s. A. chairman of the
football committee of West Point Military
Academy. Is in Pittsburg for a few days
vacation. at the home of his father-in-law,
w. w. Young. Capt Pierce will leave
Pittsburg for Washington tonight, where
he comes to confer with the navy people
regarding the game Of next year. Discuss
ing the report sent out from Washington
that the War Department was contemplate
ing stopping the annual game between the
army and navy, Capt. Pierce said:
1T is untrue. The War Department has
no intention Of stopping football, or would
have been notified. 1 have just come from
Harvard. and we have closed with her for
our game. 1 have been called east to finish
preparations with Annapolis for our an
nual meeting. Not only will you find West
Point and Annapolis mixing it up as usual
on the football field in Franklin Field at
Philadelphia next fall, but you will find
a football squad In every army post In the
country. 1t is the soldiers game, game
for soldiers and the soldiers will stick to It,
"When one writes that the big football
game is to be called off, as has been writ
ten, it provokes but a smile from those who
know. Why, that West Point football
team is the personal pride Of every United
States soldier, no matter in what part OF
the world he may be stationed. The SOL
diers money and the officers money Is
what supports the squad, and every fellow
who wears the blue swells with pride when
his football team is mentioned. The same
way with the navy team. Every man-Of-
war in very part of the world sends its
contribution to the football team. All the
jackies are interested, and they would in
sist that the game go on.
Football needs one thing more to make
1t a perfect college game. That is an an
nual meeting between the east and west.
Michigan and Yale are each diSputing the
others right to the title of college cham
fight it out. What a game 1t would have
made! Wisconsin broke up the fast play of
Michigan and held her down. What would
Yale have done? What would we Of West
Point have done? 1 do not care to answer
this question myself. but l will say that I
do not think Michigan ever met team OF
the caliber Of Yale. Harvard, Princeton or
West Point. When it comes to the fast
ones do not overlook West Point. Remem-
Der. we held Yale to a tie score. Next year
I hope to have my boys beat Old Eli.
west Point does not get half the credit
she deserves in football" continued the
football representative of the United States
army. Down at the Academy boys do not
get a chance for daily practice until Mo-
vember. We have drills every afternoon in
October. and the boys do not get a regular
lineup daily as do Harvard. Yale and the
other big ones. Now, we are forced to
meet both Harvard and Yale before the first
week Of November is over, practically be-
fore We get down to hard, fast work. II
West Point had the early line-ups that the
big colleges have would spring some
more surprises on the football world