The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-29
his 4O-yard line, Hoge catching and
running back to the Navy 20-yard

his 4O-yar0 line, H0ge catching and
running back to the Navy 20-yard
mark.
On the next play Hoge hit right
|.guard for ten yards. Overesch tool
Ingram's place. but Army scored q
forward pass. Prichard to Merrillat
was failure. Score. Army %; Navy 8
Before the Game.
The favorites-On paper the mid
shipmen were credited with marked
superiority over the Army cadets this
season and history records Navy VIC
:! tories in nine OF the seventeen former
games between the two schools, with
a string Of three Navy victories dur
! ing the last three years. On the
few football critics in New York as
serted the Army eleven had a good
chance to win and that in any event
a keen battle of football brains and
Drawn was assured. The betting odds
prevailing for a week at 10 to in
favor of the navy were reported as
ruling even higher today, with conf
dent Navy men freely Offering to 1,
at which ratio Army men were eager
to indulge.
The campt.-Ther ival squads with
forty in the Army list and 33 in the
Navy were quartered at hotels within
cunning distance of each other in the
man seemed in perfect physical con-
dition.
Color scheme.-The city was full Of
gold lace, more Of it than can be re-
membered at any time since the Dew
ey naval parade.
Songs and cheers.-A number Of
new songs set to popular refrains and
several original service yells were pre-
pared for use for the first time TODAY
to the accompaniment of the rival
bands.
Some of the characteristic bits of
song arranged for today:
Navy
Fade away, black and gold and
gray;
Change your course, just roll away.
Army, army. you're a blunder;
Take a tip and stand from under
Gangway; let deep sea wave roll
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
every day 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 mascot was
by victory. Superstitious
members Of the Navy team who believ- |
ed their luck depends on the goats |
early death. suggested his sacrifice be- |
fore the game today but it was de- |
cided to let him live.
Time Of game-Start at o'clock with |
play divided in to the usual four per-
up:
Omcials-Referee: w. Langford; Trim
ty; umpire. A. Sharpe. Yale; headlines
nan, C. Marshall, Harvard.
Incidental: 1t is the last game Of the
913 football season.
Annapolis Md, Nov. 29.-The brig
ade Of midshipmen more than 700
strong together with several train
Dads of Annapolitans left here early
oday for the scene of the big inter-
'ervice football game at New York
his afternoon. Because of the great
% New York and back is concluded,
In extra early start was necessary. It
vas not yet daylight when the bugler
founded reveille and turned the Navy
'ooters out of bed. This was at 4:15
o'clock, and two hours later the last
rain load Of midshipmen had pulled
tut Of the station.
Captain John H. Gibbons, superin-
endent Of the naval academy, and
Mrs. Gibbons; Commandant OF Mid
hipmen George Logan and Mrs. Lo-
ran and others of the local naval con-
ingent got away for the metropolis
afternoon, and with the de-
,arture of the brigade this morning
'ut little more than a corporal's guard
emained to watch over the institu-
ion.