The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28
ARMY COMPLETES
 SEASON WITH WIN OVER NAVY ELEVEN
|S|DEL|GHTS ON THE ARMY-NAVY CAME
High Government Officials Present-Great Demon
 stration After Game

New York. November 27-President Wilson. his fiancee, Mrs. Norman Gait, Secretary of War Garrison, Secretary of
 the Navy Daniedls and scores of mon prominent in official military and naval
 life were among the more than 40,000 per- sons who watched through drizzle and log that partly obscured the players at
 times the football game between the mili- tary and naval academies here today. A light rain fell amost continuously during the first half of the game but the
 President and Mrs. Gait scorned the shell ter of the covered grandstand and occu- pied an open box directly in front of the navy cheering section.
 At the end of the first half President Wilson and his party left the open box and walked across the gridiron to the army side, while the 600 midshipmen sa : luted and stood at attention. The 300 cadets arose and also saIuted and stood at attention until he had 1 reached a box in the upper tier of the grandstand. By this time the drizzle had virtually stopped.
 Mrs. Gait appeared to be highly enth,i- siastic as she entered the army stand notwithstanding the hour or more tha I,
 she sat in the rain. She wore a dark blueI velvet dress. blue hat and a large white| fur neckpiece. At her waist was a bunch| of orchids. From the time the cadets marched intd| the grounds led by an army band until darkness put an end to the celebration| on the field after the game, volleys oil cheers and songs rolled back and forth
 across the enclosure and echoed against| Coogan's Bluff under which the Polc| Grounds nestle.
 Shortly after 1 o'clock the battalion oA cadets marched on the field. The mem Ders Of Hle band swung on to the playine| turf With long, swift strides, but the sod was soaked and the musicians slipped and slid Discordant notes resulted. After some fancy drilling on the field
 the cadets marched into their cheering section and cheered and sang, while tha crowdl poured into the big stadium. The failure of the regiment of nidshinl men to appear at the field before 2 o'clock caused some comment. At one minutd 1 after the navy band, resplendent in lond blue coats with flaming red capes, ad vanced on the field, while the cadets and spectators cheered It was then learned that owing to the thick fog on the HudsoI
 
 Which carried the navy contingent iron the New Jersey side had lost his bearing and gone five miles too far up the river While the two elevens were lining II, for the first kick-off the navy goat, wit shiny black hornse and bright blue and gold blanket, was paraded about the sid ! lines
 The cadets called for their mule. bu l had to be contented with the sight of ! homing pigeons each with yellow tissu paper streamer on one of it's legs, circI
 over the field and head toward Wes Point
 Just before the game started the cade
 cheering section sang a song which pre-
 olcted dire catastrophe for the navy an | concluded with dozen army bugIer
 derisively sounding Taps" The nav
 section rose and howled its answer bac
 while the midshipmen buglers sounde 1 Charge
 immediately after the game the cadet swarmed onto the field. cheered the victorious team, congregated in front the navy section which was making mor noise than at any other time during tt | afternoon, and then the jubilant wed 1 Pointers followed their band in a snah l dance about the field and between tr goal posts.
 1 Bugles sounded and the gray clad cs
 dest lined up around the entire fell
 While four cheer leaders cavorted abou
 A great flag with the army colors, blacl
 yellow and gray, was placed in the eel ter Of the fled and the victory was eel brated by the time honored custom
 rallying around the flag This develops
 into terrific rush in which every cad(
 apparently tried to be the first to reac tfe flag.