Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-27
pesters Divided Outcome Army Navy Chicago Today
IS SPECIAL TRAINS
CARRY RIOTERS
TO Big Navy GAME

Chicago. Nov. 26-(P-Chicago far
from the seacoast where invaders
might be expected to appear first,
nevertheless today prepared for war
The city, however, will furnish only
a battle-ground for the combatants--
the Army Navy-who have moved
into the battle area prepared for the
annual service conflict on Soldiers
Field tomorrow.
Commodore" Bill Ingram of the
Blue-the Navy-firmly entrenched
his sea- going football army at a
hotel and then tested the Navy foot
ball guns. big and small, on the bat
tlefield.
General" Biff Jones, guiding
genius of the Army grid warriors,
also wheeled his mobile forces into
position, captured the South Shore
Country club, and established head
quarters there.
And Chicago, engulfed by tidal
wave Of cadets, midshipmen, men Of
state and thrill seekers from
throughout the nation, found itself
the happy host to one of the most
colorful throngs In its history.
Flinging ajar the gates of it's hos
pitality, the city began two days Of
festivities attendant upon the first
service football game ever played
inside the Atlantic seaboard.
In the wake of the two football
squads, the student bodies of the
two academies poured into Chicago
today on Is special trains. while
the city rocked in tribute.
The cadets and midshipmen will
give the city foretaste this after
noon Of tomorrow's spectacle when
they march into Soldiers Field for
dress parade preceding dedication of
the s1O,0OO.OOO municipal stadium to
Chicago's world war dead.
While the city was extending its
official welcome. football followers
were casting an eye on the sky and
also attempting to assess the merits
of the service teams. The weather
man was kind in his forecast, prom
Using that it probably would be fair,
but rather cold.
The line-ups have not been an
nounced. In fact, Navy Bilr' Ing
ram surrounded himself in secrecy
that was thicker than the mist that
hung in the atmosphere when he ar
rived with his future admirals.
Il don't know as yet about my
lineup" was the most that he would
say.
The Army lineup likewise is I'M
certain. but from hints dropped by
Captain Lawrence Jones, head coach,
it probably will be much the same as
the one that faced Notre Dame.
The mule and the goat. time hon
ored mascots Of the teams, will be
among those present, as usual. The
Navy brought "Bill' along, his two
feet long wrinkled horns painted
Il IL
old and has been the Navy mascot
for eight years. The Army did not
bring mule, figuring that one mule
is as good as another and SO a re-
QUESTION will go to the stables at
Fort Sheridan.
The stadium dedicatory ceremony
today will be the climax of the first
days events. Vice President Charles
G. Dawes will make the principal ad-
dress at the stadium before q
throng which Is expected to mount
to upwards of $4,000 persons. A his
torical pageant will precede the dedi-
cation.
Cadets and middies will dine and
dance at a ball tonight, to which
hundreds of Chicago girls and others
from throughout the nation have
been hidden as guests. The ball will
terminate with a midnight show.
Following the students of the two
academise into Chicago are host OF
distinguished guests from coast to
coast. Secretaries Wilbur, Dwight
Davis and John F. Davis of the
presidents cabinet, Assistant Secre-
taries Hanford MacNider. F. Trubee
Dawson, T. Douglas Robinson, and
others, Governors Smith of New
York, Richie of Maryland, Blaine of
Wisconsin,, Speaker Nicholas Long
worth of the House of Representa-
tives, and many more men of state
were expected here late today.
Tomorrow's contest will be wit
messed by 100000 ticket holders and
some 10000 more persons assigned to
police duty, concessions, or ushers
tasks within the huge stadium. 1t
will be the biggest throng ever to see
a football game, and the biggest
with the exception of the Dempsey
Tunney fight crowd ever to see an
American sporting event. The gate
receipts of 100000 will set another
football record.
A third will be hung up by the
meeting here of the Army and Navy
football teams who never have play
ed west of the Alleghanies.