New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-02
EBr Telegraph to Tho tribune

Princeton N J. Dec. 1.-The annual football
game between the elevens of the United States
Military Academy at West Point and the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis Will be
played on University Field at Princeton to-
marrow afternoon at . o'clock. The allotment
and sale Of seats indicate that a crowd number
ins fully $4,000 persons Will be IN attendance.
Every preparation has been made for the con-
vsniencs of the visitors. and the extensive &C
Communications provided should make the ham
ding Of the crowd comparatively easy.
N point OF national distinction, If not OF pur-
nose the gathering will resemble that which met
IN Princeton during Revolutionary times. when
Congress was In session IN Nassau Hall Presi-
dent Roosevelt and men high in the councils OF
the government win lay aside the cares Of state
for enc day to representatives of the two
srras Of the service meet in mimic warfare on
the chalk marked gTidiron-
It VIII be distinguished gathering. Besides
President Roosevelt and his staff there viii be
an unusual number OF persons Of national i'm
poreanoe In attendance. With President Roose-
wait VIII be Secretary and Mrs. Root, Secretary
Loeb, Captain and Mrs. W. S. Cowles and Miss
ArcA Roosevelt Secretary Taft and Secretary
BcuAparte will each bring down parties IN their
private cars The British. German and French
ambassadors and their suites will be in attend
anna besides a large number of army and navy
u1scsrs Of high rank
Princeton was In gala attire tonight The
advance guard of the big crowd began to ar
rive and the little town had much the same ap-
1sarauce as on the eve of a Yale-Princeton
game except that the blue and orange and
blanx are replaced by the colors OF the Army
and Navy.
The Navy football squad OF thirty men, ac-
companied by the coaching staff under the d.
-ad or A-3 r0fC
this afternoon The men had dressed In their
football toys on the train and drove directly to
University Field, where they had final prao-
iice The work was conducted in private, ana
a large crowd was turned away from the field
disappointed The men were unusually lively
and their last work was encouraging. II lasted
twenty minutes, in which signals ana Ior1na-
lions were practiSed. The team spent the
night at the Princeton Inn.
The gridiron was covered with two 1oot
LAYER of straw tonight and promises to be In
perfect order. A large fiat platform has peen
sracfe5 ar the north end of the field where it
IS expected that about one thousand spectators
will be able to stand This probably viii brlng
the total number Of spectators up TO 5l'Vuu
President Woodrow Wilson returned from the
South this afternoon He will entertain Presl-
dent and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt with MISS
Alice Roosevelt, at luncheon tomorrow. E I
President Grover Cleveland VIII atieuol lIie
game and has invited about thirty OF MS 1r1elas
to take luncheon at Westlands' ms nome u
The Army eleven and substitutes spent the
night in NeyV-Yorl1 and will come out to Prince
ton on an early train tomorrow morning.
Indications point to interesting and hare
fought struggle. Both elevens have been care
fully pointed and trained for this game. Ihey
have had the advantage OF. the best coaching,
and latest reports from both camps are to the
effect that the padded warriors are in the best
possible condition The rivalry between the two
teams is particularly keen, and it does not stop
with the teams and undergraduates. Army ana
navy men who have grown gray ~ the service
will watch the battle with feeling quite deep,
ST not as noisiIy expressed. Whereas the Navy
has slightly the best record for the season as
far as results GO the Army has played cred
ttafIv against some OF the best elevens of the
wear There is no fair means Of comparison.
however and for that reason the probable out
come Is more uncertain. That it viii be game
which will stir the blood and quicken the pulse
there can be doubt.
The NAVY is behind in the record of games
Ylayed four 10 six, and determined if possible.
10 get revenge tomorrow. The Army is defiant
and equally determined to increase the lead ana
not lose one whit of the honors earned on many
q hard fought field.