The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-30
THE ARMY AND NAVY
WILL BATTLE
HARD
Interesting Gridiron Contest is
Scheduled to be Pulled Off
on Saturday.

Philadelphia, Nov. SO-In finest fet-
tie and eager for the fray. the football
elevens Of the Annapolis and West
Point academies have arrived in Phila-
delphia. ready for ,leir annual game
tomorrow on Franklin Field. Extra
stands have been erected on the field
and all other preparations for the
contest have been completed. More
than $4,000 seats have been disposed
of and the usual crowd of distinguish
ed officers OF the army and navy is ex-
pected to be at the game. The Sec
rotary 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 ar
rive in special trains from Washing
ton and New York tomorrow.
Because of the excellent showing
it has made this year against Yale and
other star team the West Point elev-
en- is naturally decided favorite in
tomorrow's contest, though the sailor
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 mem.
bers of the w. c. T. U. and the 8. P
G A against the brutal sport, and
which was later barred by the rules
committee The score on that ocas-
sion was "a to 0.
The return game was played on the
Nays grounds on November 30 of the
following year before the flor those
days) very large crowd of 5000. and
resulted in the Arm retrieving its
former defeat to the tune of 80 to 16.
For the third game of the series the
Navy again travelled up the Hudson,
and although the Army team out
weighed them seven pounds to the man
the contest resulted in a victory for
the sailor boys.
The Army went to Annapolis on
December 8, 1893, en,irely confident of
its ability to carry victor back to
West Point. 1t returned, however, with
such heart rending figures as Navy 6,
Army 4.
The games were then discontinued
until December 2. 1899, when the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania first enter
taned the nations heroes" on
Franklin Field. The Navy could not
stop the fierce plunges of the Army
backs, who were determined and who
succeeded in wiping out the stain of
the defeat Of 1851 to S.
On December /, 1900. the Navy was
again the victor, the final score being,
Navy II, Army Z.
1t was at Franklin Field on Novem.
Der 30. 1901, that the blue and gold
first met the famous Daily, who start
ed the Army's scoring by placing a
beautiful drop behind the goal posts
near the end of the first half and lit
orally kept the ball rolling until the
close OF the game the score stood Ar
my II, Navy S.
At the contest of 1902. which took
place on November IS, the first of the
Army's big scores was piled up and
the middies returned to Annapolis to
dream Of Army %, navy s.
Exactly one year to the day and
date. the soldier boys rubbed 1t in on
the Navy to the mournful tune of a.
to S. and the Midshipmen went back
to do or die In their next attempt.
With this determination strong upon
them they came to Philadelphia two
years ago and by one of the gameist
fights ever watched by phenomenal
crowd, they fought their heavy oppon-
erts all over the field, and by an al
most superhuman effort kept the fig
nres down to Army II, Navy 0.
Last year the contest was trans.