Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-08-29
ARMY NAVY BATTLE
IS APPARENTLY OFF
Vest Point Cancels and Local
Committee Answers Statement.
WILLING TO PLAY CANE.
But Naval People Hold 10 Point That
Scene Should be Equi-Distant to
Rival Academies.

Following a conference his after
noon the executive committee OF the
Navy Athletic Association issued
statement giving the Nays side Of
the long pending controversy over
selecting a place for the Army Navy
football game, that resulted yester-
day in the Army Athle tic Council
calling off the game and arranging a
contest with the Carlisle Indians in
stead
The naval officials received a letter
10 that effect from the Army Ath-
letic Assc citation this morning. Hold
ing in effect that the Navy was will
ing to meet Army half way on every
proposition, is the gist of the state
ment issued in behalf of the Navy
Association. The statement covers
the long drawn-out dispute in de-
tailed way, but offers nothing by
way of concessio to the insist de-
mands of West Point by which the
game might be played
1t expresses the Willingness of
the Navy contingent to play at any
place midway between the two acad-
emies, thus placing the game more
under college instead OF commercial
auspices, and as well, obviating the
difficulty of friends of the rival insti-
buttons in reaching the scene of the
battle. Ii is manifestly unfair for
the Army people to insist upon a
place unequally distant, the naval
committee holds, and for this reason
the Navy held out for Franklin Field
as the logical place for sta .ying the
battle.
The statement further sets forth
the suggestion of playing the game in
Washington, but adds that the same
objection comes from West Point as
in the case of Navys opposition to
playing on the Polo Grounds, New
York, as demanded by the Army COM
mittee.
That there will be no Army and
Navy football game this year was
confirmed last night by tbs Army
athletic council.
The rival athletic committees could
come to no agreement upoh the mat
ter of a site for staging this big con
te st, and the Army therefore arranged
big game to take its place, which
will be played at West Point on the
Saturday following Thanksgiving
which is November 20.
The following authoritative state
ment was given out by the Army ath-
letic council, which governs all sport
in which the cadets participate:
1.-The Army athletic council regrets
to state that after making every
effort it has been unable to agree
with the Naval athletic council upon
the location for this years football
game between the military and naval
academies. While the Army council
gratefully appreciates the fact that
the University Of Pennsylvania has
extended itself to the limit in pro-
viding accommodations, the demands
made upon the Army athletic council
have been growing at such a rate
until at the present time they have
assumed such proportions that make
the playing of the game upon Frank
lin Field impossible from an Army
point of view.
ain the search for location where
the accommodations would be ample
from every standpoint, and where the
game would assume the aspect of
truly national event, the Army sug-
gested the Polo Grounds in New
York This proposition did not meet
with the approval Of the naval au-
thorities, however.