The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-14
FORT MCPHERSON TEAM WILL
PLAY IN SAVANNAH ON
CHRISTMAS.
FINAL ARRANGEMENT
WAS MADE YESTERDAY.
SOLDIERS HAD DIsBANDED, But
WILL FORM AGAIN.

sandy Beaver Has Been Telegraph
ed for to Come to Atlanta and
Get the Men in Shape for the
Game-Average Weight of the In
fantrymen Is Ten Pounds More
Than That of the savannah Tenn.
Captain Cope and Manager McIn-
tyre Confident of Victory.
Articles of agreement were signed in
Atlanta yesterday between the man
ager of the Fort Mcpherson football
team and Mr.. Neyle Colquitt, repre-
sentng the Savannah Athletic Asso-
citation, for a game of football to be
played here on Christmas Day.
According to a telegram received
from Atlanta the soldiers had dis
banded their team, and it was only
after making the most flattering Of
fer that Mr.. Colquitt was able to get
them to sign articles of agreement,
and put up a forfeit for the game.
AS soon as the arrangements for the
game had been completed, the soldiers
wired to Sandy Beaver, at Stone
Mountain to come up and coach the
team for the game, and the infantry
men will get down to hard work to-
day. If they. have the team that they
are reputed to have they will give the
Savannah boys all that they are look
ing for, and this will, perhaps be as
good game as one with Charleston
would have been.
Just what inducements were Offer
ed to the soldiers is not yet known,
but it is believed here that the at
tendance on the game will warrant
making them any reasonable offer.
Mr.. Colquitt will return to Savan-
nah to-day, when he will make known
the conditions under which the team
was induced to sign an agreement to
come here. Manager Mcintyre, of the
Savannah team, said last night that
he had little fears that Savannah
would be able to win, and Capt. Cope
agrees with him in this.
II have never seen the Savannah
team as consistently strong as it is
now" said Capt. Cope, and If we do
not defeat the soldiers it will be an
awful surprise to me-"
The game will be called at Bolton
Street Park on Friday afternoon, Dec.
25 at $3.50 o'clock and special ar
rangements will be made, as in the last
game played here. for perfect police
control of the crowds.
lineup of the Savannah team would
be identically the same as that used
against Georgia, and all Of the subs
would be given a chance to play in
order to get them in shape for the
game in Charleston, in case their serv
ices were required.
The soldier team put up a fine arti-
Gle of ball when they were in form,
and have had the benefit of good coach
ing. Sandy Beaver and Frank Rid
ley coached them. and in the game
with Tech they held the Blacksmith's
down in excellent shape. They de-
feated the Fort Screven team easily in
Augusta, and Reynolds Tichenor is
credited with saying that if the men
had enough hard games they would be
able to defeat both the Techs and
Georgia.
The team is unusually heavy. the
line averaging about 200 pounds. The
average weight of the team which
played the Tech was 1870 pounds which
is ten pounds heavier than the Savan-
nah team.
The following special from the Morn
ing News Atlanta correspondent was
received last night
Atlanta, Dec Is. Arrangements
were completed to-day for a football
game to be played in Savannah on
Christmas Day between the soldier
team from Fort Mcpherson and the
team of the Savannah Athletic Asso-
citation. Neyle Colquitt, halfback of
the Savannah team, was here to-day
and signed the contract with the Six