Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 36 | Chicago Gets Big Treat

v-u. v v Cli CAGO GETS TS G II TREAT ThEAT X M Record d Crowd Sees Game JK RIVAL hVAL ROOTERS FORM CHICAGO Xo Nov 27 AP Into AP-Into Into the geometric geometrIc- vastness ss o of ot Its hugest tho the miC today heaped more than a hundred thousand thou thou- sand nd persons to feast upon a martal mar- mar tSal Ual spectacle of ot sound and color never neer before belore unveiled to its vision viston Upon a n gridiron s sur surrounded rounded with pulsing human segments the foot- foot 2 of of the United States 1 Military and Naval al a academies met v the for or first time In history west f 01 h Alleghenies and as the they battled battled bat bat- tied three thousand splendid sons nations nation's service schools gave land nd America its it's first sight of ot ik men the nation is training In w art of war before the cadets and mid mid- 8 swung into Michigan avee ave ave- lit e to march to Soldiers' Soldiers field the i began begin to gather in the sta- sta Iun un which h reposes on the shore Af r. r Lake Michigan And when the thet t Ing legions of youth wheeled i the broad- broad platter of t the tre the eager thousands sent up ch c er r 1 echoed and reechoed rOss Across S the field until the men pa- pa in jn darkness from a scene et eJ h heil In lii heroic herbie proportions upon the corn belts belt's consciousness For than a century the or more pomp cini and glamour r of West Point an L Annapolis have haye been but lego leg- leg o i Inside th the Atlantic seaboard 1 T Today day tho traditions of the schools Overe w re given form and life and the i no throng drank deeply of t. t rio b crow crowd emotion reached Its Us UsI I J peak when the coated blue-coated and the cadets in gray ray i their ther columns onto the field the rn I the colorful prelude to the game 1 J i pe marched marchl and drilled and andt t heeled v-heeled he led pivoting phoUng as one man and andT fG T the multitude to keeping e with hands bands and feet and hea heads s 3 the strains of or music which rose the bands of 01 the two schools I r wn Up at either end of the field e moment when the ser ser- ic IG men broke ranks and swarmed their seats on either side or ot j f fhe he stadium the crowd moved and h and sang with the tho men it came to see V In the navy side the block of blue formed by the midshipmen flecked f i with wItt the white of their caps and t. t was the focal point for 60 50 t t persons automatically converti convert- convert i ed Into navy zealots while on the Army vi L sIde the cadets waggled their and threw their gray ray raya a 4 in the air to the pulse beats of at Ito shared their half hat of the o a on the east cast side and Army west they were the keye key- key e t II a. a tremendous human arch stretched segment upon segI sega seg- seg 11 lh a parabola filled In at its I i si by other thousands H of r in fn temporary seats behind the north goal posts W Nor or was such cheering ever heard there here as s cadet cadets and midshipmen to the contest The lusty ng o of the Army Anny bellowed a den de- de ant n slum slam s1 n and gravy song at the way and back came the retort tWe We Ye can caa n lick the whole damned m Ar ft Were the oly ny l ere ere was a a. football game the game the rd had all an but forgotten it in of welcome to the formed youths The Navy v a team ed and the Army b besieged e eyen with exhortations while N side became a bobbing t of oft white cape and typhoon of I ut ul m en n the tide Ude ebbed to the Army's fa r and the Navy avy groaned Hold Hold Storming a hundred of eardrums with Hs Its f on c V The the day was a perfect one as student bodies went through their maneuvers the maneuvers the sun Shining bright- bright 1 lr the t temperature just under freezing The stadium rearing its doric daric columns skyward against the placid waters of Lake Aiu lIl with ith the broken skyline of tr th city supporting it in relief furnished a thrilling spectacle The sun disappeared by the end of the first half of ot the game but the darkness served only to endow with greater magic the spell cast upon t the crowd Th The crowd had another big moment moment mo mo- ment when the Army mule and Navy Xavy goat paid th their lr respects to each other The mule a a. frisky animal ani ani- mal greeted with some disdain the long haired long-horned long Navy vy goat its and the goat returned the coolness with ith some of the most supreme scorn ever registered before the movie cameras which recorded the event Thousands saw the cadets and midshipmen march yesterday But Dut thousands more were equally as eager for today's spectacle Long before the midshipmen and cadets arrived when the stadium opened at 10 a. a m. m There was a scattering of or persons throughout th the structure but other thousands were were massed when the student bodies started their march marchat at 1 The crowd was handled handl d smoothly and without an untoward incident despite it size As the service men came onto the field they completed a picture of g beauty the beauty the stadium crowd grouped like ike a a. magnet magnet mag mag- net net with a bar a across ross its its its' end white squares at the fields field's extremity extremity ity where the gridiron canvas lad had hadnot ad adnot not kept off oft the snow of yesterday the gridiron in the middle of ot the platter with its white chalk lines and the student legions arrayed horizontally across it NO sooner was the game concluded ed ed than the cadets cadet and midshipmen were summoned to their formations on n the field The Navy avy departed first in the darkness preceding because tie tie- cause It was official host lo to this years year's game The Arm Army followed and only the lighter colors in its uniforms were visible as the men paraded to their trains They left at once for Annapolis Annapolis Annapolis An An- and West Vest Point Point though the teams stayed behind h. h Almost lost In the throng were scores of ot notable personages who came to see the game Few of the hundred thousand got a glimpse of any but Vice President Charles G. G Dawes yo jho crossed the field from the Army Armr to the Navy side aide between halves to indicate his neutrality Secretary of War Val Dwight Davis and Secretary of or the Navy y a Wilbur sat respectively on the Arm Army and Xav Navy sides and hosts of senators senators sen sen- governors mayors and as assistant assistant assistant as- as Cabinet abinet secretaries were similarly obscured