Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1911 — FRANKLIN FIELD NOT CHOSEN [ARTICLE]

FRANKLIN FIELD NOT CHOSEN

No Location Has as Y«t Been Chosen for Army-Navy Games—Time of Game Not Agreed Upon. Notwithstanding the published reports that it had been settled that Franklin Field would be the scene of the next Army-Navy football game. Lieutenant Frank D Berrien, football representative and head coach at the Naval Academy, who was quoted as one of those who had been a party to the agreement, stated most positively that no agreement had been reached and that the matter was exactly where it was- when the three years’ agreement ended with the game last November. lieutenant Berrien stated that neither- the location or time of the game had been definitely agreed upon, and in this he was supported by the statement of Lieutenant Commander Harris Laning, athletic officer at the academy and one of those appointed to confer with the representatives of the Military Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. The Navy has assumed that the game would be played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, as usual, the date this year being December 2, but there has been no agreement with the Army to this effect While there has been no agreement for the game to be played on Franklin Field, there is a possibility that the report grew out of information that the University of Pennsylvania would acquiesce in the request for more seats to be allotted the two services. This would be gladly received at Annapolis, as Franklin Field is preferred to any other place as the location for the game, and only the Imperative need of more seats brings any other place into consideration.