New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-24
HARVARD-YALE TO-DAY.
GREATEST FOOTBALL BATTLE OF THE
YEAR TO BE FOUGHT AT NEw-HAvBN.
THE WINNER WILL BE cHAMP1oN-BLUE A
SLIGHT FAvoRrTE. BUT EVEN MONEY
RULEsTREMENDoUs EXCITEMENT
OVER THE STRUGGLE

RULEsTREAdENDoUs EXCITEMENT
OVER THE STRUGGLE.
The greatest football battle of the season will
be fought between Harvard and Yale this after
noon. and many people declare that the struggle
to-day at New-Haven will be the most exciting
that grtdiron history has ever furnished. 1t is
sure that interest in the great contest ID
extraordinary and unprecedented, and ever
since Harvard's victory over Pennsylvania and
Yales over Princeton this interest has been
growing at a tremendous rate. NewHaven
will be filled to overlooking from early morning
until late tonight, for train after train. made
up OF special cars and bearing shouting bands
OF Blue and Crimson enthusiasts from New
York and Boston. will pour their thousands into
the City of Films.
When the football managers OF Yale began to
prepare for a crowd of 1900 people they
thought that they were doing great things; but
no sooner were the applications for seats re-
ceived. week or so ago, than the managers
found themselves simply swamped. In the ef-
fort to fill the demand they arranged to have
5000 or 1000 more seats securely built at Yale
Field, but there are many hundred
graduates of both universities who have not
been able to get seat, while the general public
will hardly get a smell Of the game. vail has
come down from New-Haven that the fresh
men, who of course have last choice OF the
classes. must sit at the end of the field or stay
home altogether, and all this only goes to show
the amazing interest and excitement which the
big battle has aroused at both the universities
At the Harvard Club in this city the demand for
seats far exceeded the supply, so the committee
sent on to Cambridge plea for more accom-
modations The Harvard Club of New-York'
which recently gave $4,000 boathouse 10 the
university can usually get about what IL wants
in the way of tickets but although CaI1iofluSe
scraned together every available billet, the Har-
ward Club committee had 10 return unnlleo a
large number Of applications. When the tickets
uarA distributed on Thursday morning there
ro. hiy crowd at the clubhouse, in Forty
fourth-st.
Then the efforts Of the spectators have served
m conoplicate the ticket question CONSIDERABLY
The pasteboard this year is not very elaoorate'
and II has been discovered that countertelters
are hard at work. Both the HarN ard and Yale
rnanaeenents have therefore warned the public
| against buying tickets in the hands OF any
! spectators.
! GREAT CROWDS FROM FAR AND NEAR,
The first of the long special trains will start
! from the Grand Central Station IN this city al
about 10 o'clock this morning, and from that time
| on they will run at short intervals until about
| II or II 30 a. m The Harvard and Yale CUBS
| will have many special cars or their own some
| for the use of members and their women guests
| and others for members alone. On these latter
oars ,he club servants will travel. and plenty to
eat and drink will be carried along. At New
Haven unusual preparations have been made to
handle the crowds, and one improvement thai
| New-York people especially will appreciate Is
the extension Of the trolley line clear to Yale
Field. Formerly 1t stopped about half mile or
| the New-Haven side of the grounds
! The chief reason for the remarkable Interest
| shown in the game to-day is that the winner
Harvard or Yale, will be decisively the champion
| Of the season. Harvard and Yale defeated th'
two other members Of the big Fur" Pennsyl
| vania and Princeton. by such big scores respec
lively, that 1t is plain that the Crimson and thu
Blue elevens strictly In class by themselves
this year and the better one OF the two is easil!
entitled to the name Of champion. Then anothe
reason for the excitement that prevails is in thu