The Washington herald., 1913-08-29

FOR II TO be played at any point other
than Philadelphia would require a grea
rearrangement of railroad plans. We TOLD
them the place to watch is Annapolis
Game Called on.
The entire trouble started over tn,
failure of the teams to select a playing
field, and generally without notifying the
! Naval Academy authorities at Annapolis
| OF their intention, the west Point officials
scheduled a contest with the Carlisle
Indians for November %, the date which
4 the naval men thought had been sci
| aside for the game.
The calling on of the game shocked
the Middies' representatives. They held
several conferences with the West Point
officials over the selection OF grounds.
The Middies held out for Franklin Field,
Philadelphia, while the cadets favored
alternate games at the academies ath-
letic fields, or at the Polo Grounds, New
York. According TO the naval men. there
has never been a suggestion that the
game might not be played.
Navy officials in Doubt.
The announcement was treated as er-
roneous at Annapolis. There was some
disposition to regard it as a piece of
| strategy" designed to force the MiddIes
| into agreeing to West Points demands.
Never did the Middies believe their rivals
would take measures that would effectu-
ally prevent the game, particularly as
the Middies have won nine times to their
opponents seven West Point was under
stood to be thirsting for revenge this year.
An authoritative statement was issued
by officials at the military academy today.
Glenn Warner, coach Of the Indian team,
and Moses Friedman, superintendent OF
the Carlisle School, refused to discuss
the signing of the contract with West
Point preferring to have the statement
come from West Point.
Statement from Army.
The following authoritative statement
was given out today by the Army Ath
letic Council, which governs all sports in
which the Cadets participate:
The Army Athletic Council regrets to
state that after making every effort il
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 greatly appreciates the
fact that the University of Pennsylvania
has extended itself to the limit in provid-
ing accommodations, the demands made
upon the Army Athletic Council have
been growing so great that at the
present time they have assumed such
proportions that makes the playing of
the game upon Franklin Field impossible
from an Army point of view. In the
search for a location where the accom-
modations would be ample from every
standpoint and where the game would
assume the aspect of truly national
event. the Army suggested the Polo
Grounds In New York. This proposition
did not meet with the approval of the
Naval authorities
However, the Army authorities, feel
ing that since the game could not be
given this national aspect anywhere else |
except upon the Polo Grounds, preferred |
that it be returned to where it was orig |
inally played, upon home grounds.
1t was only after the naval authori- |
ties failed to agree to play upon the |
Polo Grounds, at West Point or at An
napolis that the Army Counsel found |
itself compelled to turn to the only other |
government institution for a game that |
would prove fitting climax to the |
Army's football schedule
Such a game has been arranged and |
the Army's opponent in this years cham |
pionship game will be the team from the |
Carlisle Indian School. The game will be |
played at West Point on the 18th Of No
vember."
Interest In Game.
Back OF the annual game between the
academies is all the interest of the men
in both branches of the service, and |
their protest is likely to be exceedingly |
bitter. 1t was their protest and the eff
forts of the University of Pennsylvania
officials that brought the academies to-
gether in 1893 after a hostility of six
years. The first Army-Navy game was
played in 1890. but the academies disa-
greed in 1894 and the games were stopped.
Since 1899 they have been held without
4 break, save in 1909, when Cadet Eugene
A. Byrne died from injuries received in
the West Point-Harvard game.
Lieut.. Commander A. P. Fairchild and
Lieut.. Roger Williams, who represent
the Navy in the negotiations with the
Army, are both absent on leave, but
Lieut. a. w. Fitch, representative Of the 1
Athletic Association, said that no letter
had been received from the Army which
closed the relations. He also said that
an answer to the last letter of the Navy
had been expected for some weeks.
Lieut.. Douglas L Howard, head coach
IF the Navy team, expressed his regret
At the cancellation of the game. He
said that the date of November % had
been agreed upon the game, subject to
agreement as to place. II
The contract for the Carlisle-West
Point game was signed, 1t Is said, and
$ in the possession Of Glenn Warner,
he Indian coach. The date selected
s the last Saturday in November, which
las always been reserved for the Army
Navy game.
The Indians jumped at the chance to
,lay West Point at the latter's field. !
They got the date because the Army !
nen felt that Carlisle, being a govern {
nent school, would come closest to fill
ng the NaYy's place on the Schedule.