Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-12-09
PRESIDENT ENJOYS IT
Army and Navy Fighters on
Gridiron at Princeton.
STRENUOUS TEAMS SCORE A TIE.
why RooseveIf Favors Football Now
Easy 20 dcrstand-Cheers From
Great Assembly Testified TO
His Popularity.

Great ASse mhiy Testified TO
His Popularity.
PRINCETON. n. J.. Dec. 4,-Presl
dent Roosevelt. The secretary Of state
the secretary Of war, the secretary Of
the navy. the cadet corps from Annap-
oils and West Point and about 10000
noncombatants saw the annual foot
bali game between tie army and the
navy here file president sal half O
he time on the navy side While the
navy was being beaten aud the other
half on the army side while ihc sll
sliers were losing their advantage Titus
Che chief executive displayed rutlre
smpartiality between thc TWO arus ~
shc service. Moreover. the game i
self, one Of the most spii,itcdiy Fought
of all the contests ever seen between
these traditional rivals. resulted in a
is to 9 tie, the navy managing ut the
eleventh hour 10 stave OIL imminent
Ell, with q touchdown and goal to
III those secured by the army in the
II. naf
There was the greatest possible In
terest in the coming OF the president
from washington to see the match,
especially in view Of the vigorous in
ferest he has shown in the matter Of
football legislation. There were q good
many persons present who felt that, so
far as Mr. Roosevelt's Influence could
xeacia the game was more or less ON
trial ut Princeton. II is pleasant TO he
able 10 say that the president saw
{ smart. able exhibition Of the great
4 American undergraduate game, siren
lnonsly played. ms indeed are all foot
Z hall games worthy the name, but free
from any taini Of foul play or personal
rancor.
AS for the president himself, well, the
match was one long series of outbursts
Of enthusiasm that emphasized his per
wunal popularity. With the president
were Mrs Roosevelt. Secretary of State
Elihu Root. Secretary of War Taft, As
sistant Secretary of the Navy Newber-
nv. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., fresh from n strenuous
football season himself as an end on
the Harvard freshman team and Ker-
NIT Roosevelt.
The entire party We're entertained ut
the home of President Woodrow VIII
son of Princeton university.
1t wasn't hard to understand why
The president defends football after the
game began. He was as excited as
the smallest youngster on the field and
when Hill. for the navy. dropped back
for a place kick he almost popped out
of his hox watching the course of the
!. ball.
"Well, it was Il good try, anyway,
iie said 10 Secretary Root, and tho sec
rotary sadly shook his head and said
he reckoned it was.
As for the game itself, it must be
said that it was quite the most des-
perately fought match in which these
rivals have ever participated.
1t was nip and tuck from the start.
There is little difference between the
strength of the two teams. The army
mad bit the better of the argument
the first half of the match, while
he navy turned the tables in the sec
md half What might have happened
those four minutes that the dark
hess cut off from the tail end of the
second half no man can say.
But IN the first half the play was
nree-quarters of the time in the navyS
territory. while the army was on the
defensive most of the time in the Sec
ND half
There WAS Il strong south wind blow
ng all the afternoon that had quite as
much to do with the fortunes Of the
game as the breeze that blew over the
yea OF Japan had to do with the battle
,eiween Togo and Roiestvensky.
In the first half the army got the
Weather gauge on their rivals, and the
Wind added fifteen yards or so to the
ength OF every army punt In the sec
md half Howard had the breeze at his
,ack, and ii was just as good to him
As il had been to the opposition kicker
before. 1t would be too much to say
hat the wind was responsible for the
wo touchdowns, but undoubtedly il
leIped
The army's touchdown was the re
ult OF fifty yards straight line plung-
ing and bucking by the army backs,
,ided now and then by the powerful
Weeks, who fell back from his guard q
'osifion TO carry the ball.
lust AT the end of the match the mid.
lies hammered and dashed their way
yer the line to tie the score. and that
made their partisans in the stand fair
delirions