one o'clock
The front pages of the papers were devoted to a review and comparison of the teams , and bulletin boards were prepared for the great crowds expected to gather about the offices during the progress of the game . Broadway and Fifth Avenue were alive with flags and the college colors , and the lobbies of the hotels were packed with a swarming mob of undergraduates . Tally-hos with merry parties and tooting horns rolled up the Avenue , and hundreds of automobiles joined in the procession . The subways and elevated roads were crowded to the doors , and at one o'clock , although the game did not begin till two , there was not a vacant seat in the vast stadium , while thousands of deadheads seized every point of vantage on the bluffs that surrounded the grounds . The stands were a perfect riot of beauty and color , and the stentorian voices of the rival rooters , to which was joined the treble of the girls made the air echo with songs and shouts of defiance . After a light lunch the teams had been bundled into swift autos and hurried to the field , where they made their final preparations and underwent the last scrutiny of coach and trainers . Both were in superb fettle and ready to present their strongest line-up , and when they tumbled out on the field , amid frantic roars of greeting , there seemed nothing to choose between them .