Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22
MOST SENSATIONAL FOOTBALL SEASON
 CLOSES THIS WEEK
Record Attendance at Yale-Har- yard Game Proves That Public Enthusiasm Over Gridiron Con tests Is Greater Than Ever.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2t.-The most sensational football season in recent years will close this week with the playing of the Congratulations game at Philadelphia on Thanksgiv- ing Day and the Army Navy game on the same field two days later Com pared with the Yale-Princetou, Prince ton Harvard and Yale-Harvard series these annual games are of compara- lively modern origin. The interest. however, is keeen and each season the elevens play before crowds that tax the capacity of the stands
 The Cornell-Pennsylvapla series began in the Autumn of 1893 and has continued without interruption for 21 years. During this period Pe.,nsyl- vania has won eighteen games. Cor nell two and one resulted in no. score tie. In total points Pennsylvania leads with 392 to Cornells 11S and the victories have been accumulated in strings. From 1893 to 1900 Pennsyl- vania won continuously After being defeated in 1901 the Quakers were triumphant until t906 when the mo- score tie occurred. From 1907 to 1912 Pennsylvania won regularly, Cor nelrs second victory coming last sea. son when the Ithaca team won 21 to O.
 The Army-Navy games began three years earlier than the Cornell-Penu- sylyania series but owing to breaks in the Service matches but eighteen contests have been held. Of these con tests the Navy has won nine; the Army eight and one resulted in a tie. Although the Navy has a one game lead, the cadets have scored the greater number of points their eight victories totalling 1S2 points to the Middies 159. It is a peculiar feature of the series that in a large major ity of the contests both eleyens have scored. The Army has succeeded but once in shutting out the Navy while Annapolis teams have six times de- feated their West Point opponents without being scored upon.
 Owing to the smaller seating ca- pacity of Franklin Field there will not be the enormous attendance that marked tke Army-Navy game played in New York last November In round figures probably ten thousand less spectators will be present than was the case in 1913. but this does not indicate any loss of interest in the Service game or football in gen eral In fact college football con tinues to grow in popularity each sea- son. The present autumn has wit messed greater gatherings at the big games than ever before ,notwithstand- ing the constantly increasing number of these feature contests.
 While accurate figures are not available for the attendance of an games throughout the country on any given day, it has been estimated, that the aggregate Saturday attendance at football games during late October and November has been well in OK. cess of one half a million That this estimate is not exaggorated is shown by the fact that of the 140 games schedued for Saturday November 2. five drew over 100000 spectators. The Haryard-princeton contest was wit messed by 38,OOO persons. YaleBrown drew 10000; Michigan and Pennsyl- vania 25O00 Penn State-Lehigh s.. 00O; Pittsburgh Washington and Jef- ferson 12OOO; Syracuse Rutgers 5000 and scores of other games attracted from 4OOO to 1000 attendance.
 The Harvard-Yale game played n the new Yale Bowl at New Haven yesterday set a new record for foot ball attendance when close to 10000 persons watched the annual gridiron struggle between the teams of the two New England Universities This gath J eriug Is the largest that ever paid admission to a sporting event in the