Traveling Toward Dallas
After the team finally reached Los Angeles, the "Cowdray" was removed from the Santa Fe train and switched to a Southern Pacific regularly scheduled passenger train with El Paso being the next goal which ended the SP's tracks where the "Cowdray" would begin traveling on the Texas and Pacific Railroad tracks to Fort Worth and then Dallas.
The route went down the center of Southern California and crossed over into Arizona at Yuma.
The route along Yuma, Arizona
Halfway across Southern Arizona was Tucson, a scheduled stop for coaling and taking on water for the big steamer.
It was early evening, and darkness had just settled in as the train braked to a halt at the Southern Pacific depot on Toole Street. As the Colonels looked out of their Pullman's windows, they saw a throng of people coming toward the "Cowdray."
The Tucson, Southern Pacific Railroad Station, built in 1907, where the train stopped for coal and water and the Colonels received a warm welcome.
A group of students who lived in Tucson and a several dozen of the townspeople had congregated at the station. Word had gotten out from San Diego about the sportsmanship and clean play that had occurred at the game. Cheers began when the Colonels descended from the Cowdray.
Suddenly they began, "Hail! Hail! The gang's all here!"
For they are jolly good fellows,
For they are jolly good fellows,
For they are jolly good fellows,
These boys of the Gold and White.
These boys in Gold and White,
These boys in Gold and White,
For they are jolly good fellows,
These boys of the Gold and White.
After the train's conductor had indicated that they were about to start and everyone had reentered the Pullman, Army stood at the door of the "Cowdray" and thanked everyone on behalf of the team.
"Arizona has a peach of a team, and a wonderful group of players. We were honored to play such good sports, and I know that you must be proud to have such fellows represent your school."
There wasn't a dry eye in the "Cowdray" as the train churned out of the station.