Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
ANNUAL CONTEST
OF ARMY AND NAVY
Last Big Football Game OF the Season
Fousth Out On Franklin Field
Before Record Crowd.

Philadelphia, Nov. Gin primo conul-
ton and anxious for the fray tomor-
row, the Army and Navy football teams
arrived here today. The players spent
part OF the afternoon in light practlse.
Inc mldshipmen had tho first use OF
the field and later the cadets were given
possession OF tho gridlron,
For lear that the enemy might De
watching, the teams did not Indulge IN
any new formations on the open held,
90, isssrreu tnese arms lor the secrecy
o.. tiie 5IafSe nUtei fOoHlS.
1ue Iitrecsl crown Luttl ever saw IL
1uy.uaIl ea,ue on rraln>nn held IS ,eH-,,
,etl.u 70 milness toinoiru%s contest.
PRESIDENT nUuseveiL mas sent WoTu lniIl
he SYli nc unauIe 10 attend. Inc preSI-
uenl S utiugnters, mrs. Lonswortn ana
.,liss El.ie, I,ooseNeir, VIII represent me
I,reslueIit 5 IaiIily.F secretary 3s2ot war
: srlsiL and assistant secretary OF the,
Navy Ne@ucrry VIII also be mere.
some Irlctlon developed over the Sc
lection or ali umpire. Inis was com
PROMISED TINS afternoon wnen the navy
vIncials NsuSgested unat Evans OF VIII
l.a.ns coiiese, one OF the nNe me en
ils...td by the army for umpire, DO
1..Ide referee and that Al Sharp or Yale.
VINO had been previously agreed upon
by the two institutions Tor referee, pc
inade- umpire. TINS was accepted by
the army. ef@#
New York, Nov. 27.--With the annual
game OF football between the army and
navy ut Phliadelph!n tomorrow. the
football season OF lpS is brought to
close, leaving the ranking or the teams
and The selection OF the various All
American eleNenS to occupy the rol-
lowers of the sport.
Perhaps the cnlef thing demonstrated
by this years contests was that me So
called minor colleges are no longer TO
The navy tied Harvard and Brown
held the Crimson to a to 2 score this
while syracuse and West Point held the
men from New Jersey TO a to Q tie.
and Yale was able to score one touch,
down only against both Syracuse use, ana n,
stances of the strength OF the lesser
eleNens
football has come to stay. AS nav, play
ed the game is far more open and more
interesting to the spectator and less
harmful to players; Puntlng. feld-goal
kicking and trick plays have reached a
greater development than ever before,
While the forward pass Is generally ad-
mitted to be one of the prettleSt plays
In football.
1t can hardly be said that the revised
game has reached as high deyeiop-
rnent in the west as in the east. Mich
gan. which for years had one OF the
strongest gridiron teams In the country
under the former rules has recently
colleges. this year being decisively whip
ped by both PENNSYLVANIA and Syracuse.
Chicago held Cornell to a tie this sea-
son. but Cornell was easily defented BY
PENNSYLVANIA two weeks later. Minneso-
ia took the Indians Into camp BY a
score Of II to 6. but Carlisle had already
been beaten II to % by Harvard. Then
the Indi,ns nre notorious'S erratlc. and
were said not TO have played uu 10
their standard Mt MINNEAPOLIS. However;
comprehensive scores are unreliable and
manv Western followers Of the snort
maiuta'n IN the vest that the teams In
that section are stu the equals of those
III the cast
TIE ranl,irs Of the teams this year Is
lifs.uit and 'arrclv a matter Of ne--
sonal rrinion There can he little di''-
nafion's hest elevans uas between pern-
slvvanin mud Harvard. hot, % which
went through tirn season und"feafed.
s'y e e. teams IN the sas' svs%
Penre-lvania. Ya'e Dartmouth. Brown
Probably most critics win rank ns The
Elk esdtng ters ,p II the psvS cas- uervara
parrav,vantt. Yale. Dartmouth brown
and 1,rircntor IN the order named
c,iricarn's leaic~s,,tp. she has won every
rere excort that e~ainst, an eastern,
college. NeSty ~a,r!d rrnh7hlX como
wlscon.in and thcn M'nnHsots,s n,,y
Tho ifneun NJ the arut" and navy
tears Was Ssws,s nrt hv the resrer's''e
c#rtsins tonight rs follows;
ARM Navy
}Sanson,,..:L, + +. Sorthcrort ' iss5
Wisr.. G. = Meyer e, :, !,
Philoon tCt.1........c SIingln,u
Moss. .........R r. 6. ........; Wylg en-
s sglien s pe .Ifsn de
UYatt...............Q LamSs
Dean. II. !! ~ y
Chamberlain. p ......, Richardson
Referee-E.vans. Williams Umpire,
Sharpe, Yale. Field Judge angf ,'i
Trinity. MISUNDERSTANDING. Harvard