they did not need to be as early at togging as the members of the team.
Out on Franklin Field thousands and thousands of Americans, from the President of the United States down, waited impatiently for the excitement of the day to begin.
On either side of the field some hundreds of seats were still left vacant.

The music of a band now floated out, proclaiming that one set of seats was soon to be filled.

Then in, through a gate, marched the Military Academy band at the head of the Corps of Cadets.

Frantic cheers broke loose on the air, and there was a great fluttering of the black and gray banners carried by the Army's boosters in the audience.

Gray and steel-like the superb corps marched in across the field, and over to the seats assigned to them.
Barely had the Army band ceased playing when another struck up in the distance.