Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-29
NAVY'S RECORD MUCH BETTER
THAN THAT OF WEST POINT
Only Seven Points Scored on
Middies During This
Season.
RECORD CROWD EXPECTED
New York Keenly Enthusiastic
Over Contest Between
Service" Teams.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The lineup
of outstanding features which at
tended the unusual excitment of
staging the Army-Navy football game
in New York city today for the first
time in the history of football rivalry
between the two service schools were
epitomized as follows:
Weather-Rain forecast of1icially,
in amendment to yesterdays assuf-
ances that the day would be only
partly cloudy. Some rain fell during
the night, but not enough to affect
the field. which was protected with a
straw covering, and only a downpour
at the last moment could make play
ing conditions altogether intolerable.
The Scene-The New York National
League baseball stadium. on the
meadow of the Polo grounds. under
the shadow of Coogan's cliff near the
upper extremity of Manhattan Island.
where the modern horseshoe grand
stand of steel and concrete and the
ordinary baseball bleachers were re-
inforced by temporary stands, almost
completely enclosing the gridiron.
The Crowds-Provisions made for
$4,000 spectators, with nearly every
ticket sold, the largest crowd that
ever witnessed an Army-Navy game.
The 7 'ckets-Regularly priced at So
each, tickets sold yesterday as high
as $25 apiece, but spectators who
had any left this morning were let
ting them 60 as low as $40 apiece, or
$15 for two, the slump being due in
great part to the threatening rain.
Distinguished Box-holders - The
President of the United States, whose
interest In the game brought him
from Washington last night, along
with hundreds of other enthusiasts
in administrative circles, and Army
and Navy branches of the govern
ment, including almost all of the gen.
erals and admirals In the service, and
host of pretty ma DIS and matrons
from the capital. official Washing-
ton, Annapolis and West Point were
all virtually transferred to the
metropolis for a football holiday.
The FavoriteS-On paper the Mid
shipmen were credited with marked
superiority over the Army cadets this
season, and history records Navy v:c~
tories In nine of the seventeen former
games between the two schools, with
a string of three Navy victories dur
ing the past three years. On the
morning of the contest, however,
few football critics In New York as
serted that the Army eleven had
good chance to win and that in any
event q Keen battle of football brains
and Drawn was assured.
The Betting-Odds prevailing for a
week past at 10 to in favor of the
Navy were reported as ruling even
higher today, with confident Navy
men freely offering to 1, at which
ratio Army men were eager to in
dulge.
The ,Camps-The rival SQUADS. With
! forty in the Army list and thirty
/ three in the Navy, were quartered at
large hotels within cunning distance
of each other in the theatre district:
almost every man reported and SEEM
ing in perfect physical condition. sf4
Color Scheme-The city was full of
| gold lace, more of ii than can be re-
membered at any tine since the
Dewey naval parade. The rival col
ors. the navy blue and gold and the
| army black, gold and gray, were also
displayed by the thousands of wives
and daughters and sweethearts In the
football crowd.
Songs and Cheers--A number OF
new songs set to popular refraips
and several original service yells were
prepared for use for the first time
today to the accompaniment of the
rival bands. The navy musicians hal
trance to the grounds, through their
being victors In the last game. They
afford a gorgeous picture in their
! blue coats with lurid red-lined capes.
with eight companies of cadets ar
ranged according to their size to fol-
low with their many flags.
| The West Point corps of about 600
in traditional gray uniforms was to
follow, with parade of the two corps
around the field.
Some of the characteristic bits of
song arranged for today: see
| Navy:
Fade away. black and gold and gray;
/ Change your course, just roll away
Army, Army, you're blunder.
Take tip and stfnd from underyaf
Gangway, let a deep sea wave foll
by.
Army:
Hear those stands all ringing, and
those cadets singing;
West Point sure is playing, Nays
line is swaying.
| When the Army blue will join the
gray with you, and sink that
Navy team.
The Mascots--The active Navy
| goat, nearly smothered with gold lace,
and the stubborn Army mule in his
everyday clothes. were in readiness
to provide circus features as side
shows to the gridiron battle. Last
year the Navy goat died on the eve
of the game, but the loss of the mas
cot was followed by victory Super
stitious members of the Navy team
who believed that their luck depends
on the goats early death suggested
his sacrifice before the game today
| but 1t was decided to let him live.