one o'clock
With each added hour it must be confessed that anxiety at West Point rose another notch . Then came the day of the game . Even the tireless and merciless instructors over in the Academic Building eased up a bit on the cadets that day , if ever the instructors did such a thing . 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 .