New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-30
LABOR

problem which the management has to face Ever
only few good seats to offer there ere
every description at the poor Sape ct
undergraduate until he hardly knows where he
football game is something which will hardly bear
an explanation II is too subtle too intricate. to
ate. who often after PeTusing the manifold
himself in deeper perplexity than at the first TSS
process, however does call forth many things ~
at the bottom Of The entre m@dde causes
F9otb9l enthusiasts who with eloekIile resu
since the days at Springfield know, OF course that
if they are to get good seats they must have their
applications in in a seasonable time They never
ask the reasons for the things they do. They sim
in years past. they will get their seats all right
Besides these experienced enthusiasts there Is a
vided into three acknowledgements ana their
cb0ce en- The siIotnIent Of ticere m Ssv H5st
has to wait until the last and then scramble for
the seats that are waiting then.
an aggregate university membership of between
seven and eight thousand that each OF these stu
dents has at least sister a brother. father or
mother a sweetheart or a friend and that New
fqIK' boston fhilaGeipn@, CnieaEo and every
with graduates who have both the money and the
ward and Yale. the wonder is that the outsiders
can get eny seats At all Yet This they do. year
by working all sorts of schemes by which the
coveted pieces of pasteboard come into their pos
The demand for seats at great game is never
50 high as the night before the cOntest-when the
weather is as likely to be fair as rainy, and shen
every one IS worked up to the highest pitch OF ex-
GiteInent- As many IS hve DAYS before this last
Harvard-Yale game seats were selling for much
together refused $50 for the lot The situation Is
just this: Thousands want to witness the contest;
the graduate and their friends have secuted their
tickets. and those wno nave been waiting for the
pushing and scrambling and bidding against each
The excitement is incense. No one knows how;
many seats are to be had and every one is bound
wares every hand, Counterfeit tickets are
H. hSuf r., NJ ~. o ,ttiD 80 lr1 = So
fly over the wires: Get seat. any cost"
price is steadily the rise Then the crash.
Spectators who have held out for higher prices
and their seats unsod Then they begin to crawl
The price falls; but the purchaser, seeing the
downward tendency holds off and viii not buv
II he holds out long enough he can get seat at
for less At the Pennsylvania game in Cambridge
this year tickets which sold for s on the streets
OF Boston the night before were practically given
away just before the game One man. standing
at % cents apiece decided faiI from S. Just a.
the face value OF a g Yale game ticket is a big
II is this great demand for tickets-and for good
seats too-that makes the task of athletic man
one Every one is camoring. Every one thinks
only OF himself There are professors to please;
old football heroes to satisfy: compimentaries 70
sand circulation thinks it has claim to at least
five press seats the 05-yard line, and each third
cousin Of a football substitute considers himself
herself entitled to a complimentary The man
agenent receives its mail by the CARLOAD and the
wonder Is that there is any Strengthening out o.
the confusion at ALL Yet at each game. the people
90 finally get seated; everything apparently comes
around all right at the last moment and these
boys who are doing the work of men at coilege,
settle down after the noise and confusion and
element have all subsidized. and count up piles OF
greenbacks that would make some fnanciers stare
The report OF the year Just ended, which was
issued bv the graduate manager the last week.
shows that Harvard-s athletic receipts for 1901-02
amount to S9s5S7 30, of which sJi24S was taken In
at the big football sSmes
These figures show an increase o. $3.50 over the
receipts of the year preceding. The expenses ~
the crew track team and other minor organtzs-
tons annually exceed their receipts. so that foot
ball after everything has been said and done. Il
the one game on which the existence OF practically
all the others depends