Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-11-30
ARMY AND NAVY ARE
READY FOR BATTLE
FOOTBALL ELEVENS OF ARMY
AND NAVY TO TRY coNcLU-
sIoNs TOMORROW.
Special to the Herald.


Philadelphia, Pa, Nov. 30.-In fines
fettle and eager for the fray, the foot
ball elevens of the Annapolis and Wes
Point academies have arrived in Phil
adelphia, ready for their annual game
tomorrow on Franklin field. Extra
stands have been erected on the field
and all other preparations for the con
test have been completed. More than
10000 seats have been disposed of
and the usual crowd of distinguished
officers of the army and navy is ex.
pected to be at the game. The secre.
tary of war and the secretary of the
navy are expected at the game, along
with numerous other officials of the
several departments of the Federal
government. Most OF these will arrive
in special trains from Washington and
New York tomorrow.
Because of the excellent showing it
has made this year against Yale and
other star teams, the West Point
eleven is naturally a decided favorite
in tomorrow's contest, though the sail
or boys from the naval academy are
counted upon to put up game strug
gle for the honors.
The contest tomorrow will be the
twelfth between the football teams of
the two academies. The navy has won
four and the army six. Last year they
played tie game.
The first game between the two gov
eminent institutions was played at
West Point on the Saturday after
Thanksgiving, 1890. In that game the
wearers of the black and gray, cap.
tanned by William Niche, received
severe drubbing at the hands of the
navy by the use of the famous flying
wedge which caused such an inter
esting crusade to be made by the
members of the w. C. T. U. and the
S. P. C. A. against the brutal sport,
and which was later barred by the
rules committee. The score on that
occasion was "a to 0.
The return game was played on the
navy's grounds on November 80 of the
following year before the (for three
days. very large crowd of 5000, and
resulted in the army retrieving it's
former defeat to the tune of 32 to 16.
For the third game of the series the
navy again Travelled up the Hudson,
and although the army team outweigh
I'D them seven pounds To the man. he
contest resulted in ~ to victory
for the sailor boys.
The army went to Annapolis on De
cember 3, 1893, entirely confident of
its ability to carry victory back
to West Point 1t returned, however,
with such heart-breaking figures as
navy 6, army 4.
The games were then discontinued |
until December 2, 1899, when the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania first enter
tanned 1.-The nations heroes" on Frank
lin field. The navy could not stop the
fierce plunges of the army backs, who
were determined, and succeeded in
wiping out the stain of the defeat of
1893, II to s.
On December 1, 1900, the navy was
again the victor. the final score being
navy IL, army Z.
1t was at Franklin field on Novem.
Der 80, 1901, that the blue and gold
first met the famous DAILY, who started
the army's scoring by placing a beau
tiful drop from the field squarely be-
hind the goal posts near the end of
the first half and literally kept the ball
rolling until at the close of the game
the score stood army IL, navy 5.
At the contest of 1902, which took
place on November Is, the first of the
army's big score was piled up and the
middies returned to Annapolis to
dream of army %, navy 8.
Exactly one year to the day and date
the soldier boys rubbed It in on the
navy to the mournful tune of 40 to 5,
and the midshipmen went back deter
mined to do or die in their next at
tempt.
With this determination strong upon
them they came TO Philadelphia two
years ago, and by one of the gamest
fights ever watched by a phenomenal
crowd, they fought their heavy oppon-
ents all over the field. and by an al.
most superhuman effort kept the fig
ures down to army II. navy 0.
Last year the contest was transfer
red to Princeton and resulted in a
magnificent tie game. the score stand
ing at the close to 6.
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