three o'clock
Most of the visitors , to be sure , came to `` root '' for the Army , though there were not wanting several good-sized crowds that came to cheer and urge the Navy young men on to victory . By noon there were three thousand outsiders on the West Point reservation . Afternoon trains , stages and automobiles brought crowds after that . By three o'clock everyone that expected to see the game had arrived . There were now nine thousand people on the grandstands and along the sides . `` Nine ? '' repeated Durville in the dressing room , when the word was brought to him .