The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15
THE STUDENT BLACKLIST.
How Men VINO Sell Football Tick cts TO
s~peculatOrs Are Dealt with.

SPECTATOR Are Dealt with.
On the occasion OF big college football
games tho manager of the home team IL
put to a great deal Of trouble by men
specializing in tickets, and every sort OF
device IL resorted to in order TO prevent the
sale Of tickets to persons h charge extra
large sums for them. The recent Army
Navy game at Philadelphia was followed
by the statement that many tickets found
their way into the hRnds of men who sup
pOsedly had no right to bhem and an inves-
tigation was started.
The tickets for this game are divided
into three parts, the Army, the Navy and
the University Of Pennsylvania sharing
them. The Pennsylvania people get q
liberal allowance because they give the
use Of Franklin Field for the game.
IL used to be said very frequently that
the Pennsylvania students who got tickets
we're the ones who disposed Of them TO
spectators. Recently the university Ath-
letic association kept watch on the tickets
that the spectators had. They found that
in many cases the Army and the Navy
tickets were being sold.
They were able TO detect this because
the tickets are printed in three colors for
the different divisions. In fact the an
nOuncement is made that the minimum OF
tickets speculated in are those OF the
Pennsylvania allotment.
As one result OF the Harvard-Yale football
game, the names OF $50 students have been
placed on the blacklist OF Harvard. The
tickets allotted to these men were found in
the hands Of spectators n in many cases
when 80 fOund we're afterward refused at
the gate when presented by purchasers.
The blacklist is a thing Of recent invention.
The manager keeps a careful hist OF the
students who apply for tickets and OF the
numbers on those given out. When these
tickets are found afterward to have beep
sold, the manager simply refuses TO allOt
tickets thereafter on applications over the
blacklisted names.
there were fewer seats FOR some Of the big
games and thus the general public was
kept out to a certain extent. The college
football managers say that by this means
they will prevent specializing, because the
genuine students in the main want to see the
games and will not give up their tickets.
Before one Of the big games this year the
management OF one OF the elevens traced
out where counterfeit tickets were being
engraved and printed. and they had several
ton Of these bogus tickets. The arrests
were made before he tickets were COM
pleted, 30 they did not get on sale. Other
wise there might have been many unPleas-
hnJ COInpuChJLOub
In order to put q thorough check on
speculation Charles W. Baird, graduate
manager of athletics at the University Of
Michigan, framed a bill and had IL put
through the Michigan Legislature. max
ing ticket specializing a misdem eanor.
Whether or not this was constitutional, the
effect was to put a check on specializing In
tickets for the Pennaylvania- Michigan
game. which was what Mr.. Baird had in
mind.
The Pennsylvania Michigan game was
the only large game at Ann ArbOr the past
season, and one on which tho Michigan
authorities depended to make money for
their other sports. so it was considered i'm
pOrtant that no money should be diverted to
private persons.
As a general thing the managers OF foot
ball teams appeal to the patriotism OF the
students to prevent them turning over to
h spectators the tickets that have been
parcelled out TO them. A this method
has failed in some universities the blacklist
has been resorted to.