The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-31
YALE FOOTBALL SEATS.

Method of Distributing Seats for the
Princeton and Harvard Games An
| nounced
The management of the Yale univer-
sity football team announces the fol-
| lowing plan for the allotment of seats
at the Yale-Princeton and the Yale
| Harvard games this year:
J In years past each management has
1 had different plan for the distribution
of the seats in the endeavor to find
some satisfactory way to divide between
the undergraduates and graduates, and
every year there was dissatisfaction
either ON one side or the other, or both.
This year a plan has been devised
which, while not expected to satisfy
everybody, has had very careful con-
sideration In it's details and seems to
offer the best way out of difficult sit
uation. Should the proposed plan work
Well it will be continued in the future,
and the management asks the co-opera-
ton of all parties interested.
In general the plan is this: Seniors
and juniors to have first choice after
cheering section and limited special list;
sophomores and graduates alternating
till the sophomores are seated, and then
the graduates in a body till applications
are satisfied; freshmen coming last.
The details of this arrangement are as
follows:
Cheering Section.
In the middle of the field a section Of
400 seats has been set aside for a cheer
ing section, which will be occupied eX-
clusively by undergraduates made up
as far as possible of seniors and jun
iors. Only one seat will be allotted on
each application. If two or three men
wish to sit together they must pin their
applications together securely. Should
the section not be filled by seniors and
juniors, sophomores will be taken in to
complete it, the object being to get men
who know the songs and cheers and
who are willing to give their best eff
forts to supporting the eleven vocally
1t is believed that the establishing of
the cheering section in the center of the
field will have the effect of keeping the
cheering more in unison than hereto
fore, as there should be volume enough
in four hundred voices to be heard and
followed by any Yale man who cares to
cheer in any part of the field.
The Special List.
On either side of the cheering section |
about 400 seats-total 800-have been re-
served as special list. The purpose of |
this special list is to give the families
of players and coaches the best posi- |
Bile seats, and also to those men who |
have contributed largely to the support |
of Yale athletics. There seems to be
in some quarters as |
to the need for a special list, but the
justice of it is apparent when one stops
to consider. 1t is only fair that men
who have assisted in the development |
Of the team by taking hard knocks on
the scrub eleven, or who have made the
team, should have the best chance at
seats. 1t is also only fair that coaches
who have given a great deal of time,
and supporters of the athletics of the
in substantial ways, be CIV
an special consideration. The present
means to keep this list
Town to the lowest possible figure and
Expects to make cut of more than one
half from the figures of last year. Play
IFS have two seats given to them and
he privilege of buying four more, 9th
RS besides those mentioned who are in
,luded in the special list are players
rom teams of Harvard, Princeton and
of Pennsylvania.
This is a courtesy between the col
eyes and at the most does not go be-
'ond a score or so apiece.
The Seniors and Juniors.
After the special list seniors and jun
ors who have not already obtained
eats in the cheering section will be TAX
n care of in the order named. The
eason for giving seniors first choice is
hat they have supported the athletics
f Yale four years. After the seniors
aturally come the juniors but beyond
hem the management considers it
oubtful whether sophomores or gradu .
ties should be seated. 1t has therefore
zen decided to give alternate half sec
ions to graduates and the sophomores !
ntil the latter are all seated, and then 1
ct the remainder of the graduates who
ave applied in time, Scientific school
uniors will be considered as second I
ear men and will be put with the aca- {
emic sophomores. The freshmen come
tst in the allotment because at the
me of the big games they have been
! college but two months and have not ,
ontributed enough to take precedence
yer graduates.