New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-27

The President viii SIT on one size OF
the field for the first half and on the
other for the second half. as a mark Of
absolute neutrality; hut who, may be
asked. En- this broad line is truly neu-
trai when some live issue is at stake ?
President Wilson is quite human, like
the rest of US.
The game for. after all, the games
the thing will begin at 2 o'clock, but
the 43,757 holders of tickets lucky
holders -will do we'll 10 gather much
earlier. if the full spectacle is TO be
enjoyed. The cadets in gray and the
midshipmen in blue and gold will
march in some time before the whistle
blows. and the evolutions will be well
worth seeing.
II the Brush Stadium at the Polo
Grounds was as big and spacious as
the Yale Bowl not a seat would be va
cant. This Army-Navy game carries an
amazing appeal. Tickets were as hard
TO find last night as buffalo on the
prairie. Most of them were locked in
safes or slowed away in deepest peck
cts, so precious have they come to be.
Here and there one wes offered at
fancy price, but the spectators were
CRYING. For once there was a demand
for something they could not supply.
Army Team the Favorite.
The Army eleven 10 the favorite, but
nobody seems to have any substantial
reason why odds Of TO should be
quoted. Neither team has come up to
the usual average this year, but Of the
two West Point has been perhaps more
consistent No visible means OF com
parison, however, is possible, so that II
Is necessary TO fall back on impress
sions.
II must be admitted that these i'm
nressions favor the Army. Captain
Charley Daley, once OF Harvard, has
brought his men along slowly. but none
the less surely, 10 the highest point OF
efficiency, if the last game, against the
Springfield Training Scholar eleven
OF unGuestioned strengthen be &C
cepted at full worth.
Lieutenant Ingram. on the other
hand. with the assistance OF Tack
Hardwick. one Of the most finished
PLAYERS ever developed at Harvard,
mas had 20 do so much experimenting
right up TO tho defeat by Ursinus last
Saturday that lie has lacked the neces-
sary time TO put on the finishing
touches
Only one team was met in common.
Georgetown beat the midshipmen by
score of 70 in the opening game OF
the season. Three weeks later west
Point defeated Georgetown by score
Of 10 to O. These games, however, were
too far apart and too early IN the sea-
son 20 furnish a dependable line.
The mid5hipmen have won three
games this year, lost four and played
to Z tie with Pennsylvania. The
cadets, with probably a harder sched-
ule on the whole. have won four games,
lost three and played tie with Holy
Cross. Defeat was suffered at the
hands Of Colgate, Notre Dame and
Villanova-all three worthy opponents.
Hard to Anslyze Game.
The results Of early season games,
however, have little bearing. Success
or failure for the Army and Navy
hangs on the game this afternoon, and
everything is sacrificed TO this end. For
that reason il is harder 70 analyze the
situation and draw reasonable con
clusion. The Army is preferred only
because almost everybody thIHAs V"e
Army will win. 49,.
There is an old tradition that the IA
vorite for this yearly battle Of brains
and Drawn uniformly is beaten, TINS
tradition was hacked into small pts
last wear, when the Army cast aside
the hoodoo and beat the Navy by a
score Of 20 to 0. Once tradition IS
broken il is hard TO recognize there
after.
So far as experience goes. West
Point has every advantage. No less
Than ak Of the eleven men who won a
wear ago will take the field again this
afternoon They are Neyland, at ono
end; Captain Weyand, at one TACKLE;
Meacham and OHare. the guards; Nc
ivan, one Of the best centres IN the
country, and Coffin, in the backheld. On
the other hand. the Navy eleven does
not boast a single player who faced
the Army when the game began year
ago.
Three men, however, who enjoyed the