two o'clock
Only an earthquake or a cyclone could have kept them from coming . It might rain `` cats and dogs , '' rheumatism and pneumonia might hang out danger signals , but they cared not a whit . They were out for the time of their lives and bound to get it . The game was to begin at two o'clock , and after cleaning out all the restaurants in town , put to their utmost to feed the ravening horde of locusts that had swarmed down upon them , the throngs set out for the stadium . That gigantic structure could hold forty thousand people and , long before the time for the game to begin , it was crowded to repletion . On one side were the stands for the Blues and directly facing them were those reserved for the `` Maroons . '' The occupants yelled and shouted and waved their flags at each other in good-natured defiance .