noon
The Annapolis nine arrived before one o'clock and was promptly taken to dinner . All that forenoon , the factions had been gathering . 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 .