New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-06
YALE FOOTBALL TICKETS.
Efforts TO Prevent Speculation Il"
Them at Ner-HdUen.

New-IIavcn. Conn. Dec. s CSpeciaD.-Yaie Uni
versy is again disturbed over the ticket specuis-
zion question AT the championship football games
and the part undergraduates have taken in dispos-
ing % their tickets professional spectators ior
q big advance on their original investments.
This issue has been growing annually for the last
three OF foor years TWO years ago II was mercy
an unfortunate part OF the football season. Oul iSs
year the trouble blossomed into case almost q
lynch law on she campus. II was direcuy pelo'e 'e
championship game between a-S an - CO..
which was played at Yale Field Inc oeii,e--u 80
,5e,zets 1,ae been phenomenal Several hundred
alumni il was stated at the time were uhaOie ~
,,-ooi1-e tickets because Of The snaA huihOeI "a
cote 81 Vale Field-sone twenty-seFen thousd1lu a
49, .f-,e The public generally, except sueh as
- ~,-+r,ste enough 10 get their seats through
7yslo or Harvard graduates or undergraduates
caches OF players were utterly unable 10 get
tickets Because OF this fact and because the Aale
,,6erersduate feeling was decidedly against specu-
lation in tickets the Yale publications were Vlgor-
Gus IL their denuucatiOn OF men who sold their
tickets to the sellers on the street and against the
sellers themselves. IN spite Of this however
,l,spe-st tie main thOroughfare Of Aew-HaVen,
WAS lined with out OF spectators several Gays
f,efore the game. There We're probably hundred OF
these gentry. for the most part III looking chaps
,-ua other cities who had graduated from the posi-
zion Of selling badges and college flags on the curb
stowe 10 the more lucrative business OF buying and
selling tickets They stood on the street corners, in
The hotel Hobbies at the exits 10 the campus, and
even opened up an Office just opposite the campus,
where they hung out signs. Tickets bought and
sold" under the very eyes OF the Yale authorities.
Down Chapel-st a prominent newsstore was also
sed as headquarters for these fellows The feeling
for several days ran very high, and came TO
climax night or two before the big game.
on that night, about S O'Clock, at first, half in
the spirit Of a lark and then more seriously,
students began 10 gather on the campus pouring
out OF the entries 10 the call OF IAN OUT" Run
.be spectators out Of town. etc In a very few
minutes several hundred undergraduates
hand led by a few hustling spirits. A dozen or
more leaders OF The crowd held the main body in
'front.' OF Old South Middle under the electric light.
while other leaders went out in search Of quarry.
BY enticement three spectators quietly in
duced 10 come IN from the outside street 10 the
campus 20 show their wares possible purchasers.
once inside The campus gates they were thrown
INTO the middle Of surging. excited, ''jollyfng''
crowd. IN a second they were stripped Of pocket
books envelopes. private papers and tickets, and
held by the crowd. struggling and kicking, while
the best known men IN the senior class acted as
q court Of inquiry. dshed CT the unfortunates'
clothes ali the tickets they could End, and either
handed them out the 81 for each ticket charged by
the football association, or marched their victims
across the street 10 THE Alumni Weekly guild
inc where the money was paid
on the campus the next ten minutes was seen
an ilrparaueled sight. After stripping the specu-
lsto-s they were told to run. and as soon as the
scared ticket sellers got their feet they were chased
across the open campus. frightened half out Of
tbeir senses and thrown bodily into the street.
This done the undergraduates found II too good
snort 10 stop A general rush made for
C-hapel-st TIE crowd had by this time swelled TO
inward q six hundred men, some Of whom were
bent OF really soaring the spectators out OF town,
hui the majority Of whom Joined in as they would
do In any campus stunt But If il was fun for
them II wasn't at all amusing 10 the Spectators
outside II two minutes the students had torn
down the signs and banners hanging over the
4cs % the ticket sellers across Chapel-st. from
The campus. and. packing the street from curb to
curb rushed down the FIiIl" TO TeInple-st, block
ing trolley cars. and soaring innocent pedestrians
half out Of their wits the yelling, cheering
throng swept sidewalks and street III headlong
rlsb Tor the main Headquarters Of the Spectators
down town The ticket men saw what was com
ing and made a rush for the back doors OF their
ofice taking their money and tickets with thSIn.