New-York tribune., 1908-11-29
lGIVE CREDIT TO ARMY
NO EXCUSE FROM NAVP.
Captain Northcroft Says Team Did
Not Play as He Expected.

rBy Telegraph 20 IT. Tribunal
PHILADELPHIA Nov 2s-The Navy players -srs
thoroughly disguised the outcome of the game
and took defeat much to heart. although giving
the Army fun credit for its splendid play
Captain Northcroft had little 10 say The Army
fairly" said he: we did not make the show
ing had hoped for. and play beat But all
credit is due the Army for the victory.
Midshipman slingluf. the Navy centre said: Tbs
Army not stronger than our coaches told us
they last week. and we were NOT at all over
confident when went INTO the game somehow
could not seem get tosethes The Army de-
serves great credit for it's play. and We have no
excuses 10 offer for our defeat II IS fact. how
ever. that unfortunate play cost Is the gan1s~
Midshipman Lange. the Navy quarter. said We
lost and that IS there Is I only vtsta
that the footing had been little less slippery
But that might have helped the Army fully as
much IT would I can't tell you why We
lost We couldn't get our offence going. some
how"
When the Army and Navy clash on the grtdirors.
Il Is not the game alone that draws the crowds
Rack and forth from the Walton to the Believed
Stratford the old fellows and TIE youngsterssI
looking for friends they see only on this
one day of the year. passed ali the mornfng-
Usually they forgot the ones they were lookfnSt
for the joyous meeting with O.dtinne conradess
who had come at the last moment.
Never was there such demand for tickets suciS
a harvest for the spectators. AT the game to-
dav They were selling pairs OF seats for so lastl
/
night. and this morning the price had gone uoi
in some instances TO SO Four seats IN a roVTf
were sold for S1Oo in the only case IN which sol
many together were 20 BE- had Single uckstsi
| went this morning for g and 80 and even arts-f
the game had started 3 being paid by tnoso.
who had been disappointed
In one respect the exodus from the heart Of Phiit
adelphia to the. game was different from other
years There stil the huge procession CT mot
ley hacks. of cabs. Of hired automobiles mingled
with big touring and the swift rInaoouIs o-i
those lucky enough 10 own them. But thOttIandSi
had discovered that the best way reach Frankdin
Field by subway and the elevated. and thlst
they poured out. filing the Spruce street trains to
such that they reserabed those that plyq
| the Brooklyn Bridge in the rush hours Those VINO.
took the trolley and the hacks and the auto
mobiles and an the other ways OF reaching taS'
field found the usual impossible Jam when tneY got
To within three blocks OF the gates ana
thousands emerged from that swriins mass OF
horses and cars and humanity too late TO sea
/ Chamberlins sensational -un and the touchdown
that followed it, giving the Arry victory
Tho Navy goat was there. Respondent with olus
gold the crowd looked fl vain for the staid
! old army mule. He had been left az home this
time and the Army needed no mascot The goat
was dragged of BY Midshpman Ravls just eefore
/ the game ended. He had failed Of his purpose
/ Among the football men who saw the game ~ers
Walter Camp. Hurry Up Yost, who has BEEN
coaching the Army recently: NJ T. Cooke head
coach of the University of Virgina Roper. Prince
toms coach. and practically the entire Pennsylvanis
I eleven.
! number of 'es men got together in tire Hotel
Walton last night and many were the yarns the
future anirals told Of their experiences during tha
t brief time they had been the service Where
Is so and so?" the question heard on all sides
''Oh he had tough luck; got stuck for the watch
frequent reply
retired army officer waxed so enthusiasts fur-
! ing the game that in IulI in the cheering he
! jumped up shouting North Point. South Pointi
/ East Point. West Point, Six Points" II was
/ recognized as ar old army cheer.
| The cadets had new yell take the place Of
the cannon ball. in which the bugle was used %
good effect. The Nays new yell was called the
automobile 1t was not so popular as the siren
/ One passed nidshipman reached Philadelphia at
: o'clock Friday evening, and announced TO some
of his classmates that he would have TO rush Gown
to Washington to get girl and take her TO ths
game" Some friend found out her address and
wired her 10 coma the Walton on an early
train signing the midshipmans name. To make y
long story short, the MILDLY reached Washington
just half hour after she had lert ro- Fhiia-'
delphia
a gray aired army captain who had seen services
IN both the Philippines and Cuba expressed the
opinion that for real concentrated excitement an
Arnlv-Navy game had service the firing hnel
badly beaten" He himself captain OF -
West Point team in his academy days
one rather cynical navy officer estimated that tbs
annual Arrny-Navy game cost the middies two thou
sand brass buttons four thousand stands OF navy
colors and two hundred badly bruised hearts. tAs
navy girl infcting the loss
The betting was not as heavy as in previous
games The Army demanded odds Of TO
whereas Navy men generally thought the betting
ought to be at even money o 3 TO az most, al
though one Navy pool Of $1,000 was placed against.
$500 Many individual wagers or small amounts.
were made but the nidshpmen fortunate in
not being able to place additional pool OF $4,000
which the brigade had raised
Naval officers from the ships stationed along ths
Eastern seaports attended the game IN large num-
bers and many informal receptions were held n
the corridors of the Walton HqteL Army officers
in even larger numbers focked in the corridors oe
the Bellevue -Stratford.
Violet Dague an AD-America end who PLAYED
brilliant game against the Army last year. and
Douglas. the Nays captain last season. watched
the game from the side lines.
The Navy will stay here until Monday
afternoon, when il returns 10 Annapolis. Com
mander Irwin. L. S. N. and Lieutenant Bsrrisn.
L S N have charge OF the squad. The brigade
Of cadets left Philadelphia tonight for West
Point.
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