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.

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.

"Five thousand used to be about the usual crowd, I believe.