Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-10-31
RUSH FOR SEATS
AT CAMBRIDGE
YALE-HARVARD GAME is BIG
DRAWING CARD
TWO GREAT cRIpIRoN CLASSICS
DOWN NEXT MONTH
Largest Crowd Ever Gathered at Sol
dlers' Field Probably VIII Wit
ness Meeting of Old
Time Rivals

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-That the at
tendance gauge viii register high pres
sure at the coming Yale-Harvard and
Yale-Princeton football games is as
sured. While the first of the two great
gridiron classics, the Eli-Tiger match,
will not be staged until November 13,
very complete and wild ticket stan-
pede has been started. Every year at
this time it seems as though the rush
for the pasteboards will never again be
equaled, but the following season nj
ways finds an increased demand. The
same is the case this autumn.
From present indications the supply
will be totally inadequate to cope with
the demand, and 1t appears a surety
that more persons than ever befo e
who have planned to witness the "big
games" will be doomed to disappoint-
ment. 1.-THE early seeker catches the
ticket" is a gridiron adage that will
hold truer than ever this autumn.
Plans for the allotment of tickets
have been made at Yale, Harvard and
the proverbially precious pasteboards
that graduate, undergraduate, trustees,
coaches and players may apply for
have been determined. Already the APP
plications are being filed by the hun
dreds and the ticket arrangements at
all three universities state that the de-
mand is unprecedented. Be that as 1t
may, 1t is safe to say that not more
than one-third of the filed applications
will be filled by the committees at
the three universities.
Ticket Demands Unlimited
At Harvard they say that 100000
tickets could be disposed of for the
Yale game If the stadium would seat
that number. AS it is, Soldiers field
will only accommodate $1,000. Incl
dental to Cambridge, the largest crowd
ever at a football game attended the
Harvard game of 1905. That year
A, 500 spectators fiocked to the stadium.
However, the seating capacity was
lessened so that $1,000 Is
the high attendance mark at the pres
ent time. If the planned Yale stadium
becomes a reality certain it is that the
44500 crowd will be no longer record
one With a 7A-acre stadium at New
Haven 10000 seating capacity will be
assured.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
general interest in football this year
is greater than ever before in the his
tory of the sport. The equalizing of the
of the teams made possiblel
by studious application to the possi-
bilities of the new game has done its
work. Attracted by the close games
that the small colleges have been play
ing with the big varsities many more
have attended the early
season contests than was the case in
other years. All over the country
comes the news from team managers
that the attendance so far has been in
excess Of previous autumns.
Revision of Rules Popular
The foregoing only goes to show
what may be expected in the matches
of next month. Everard Thompson,
Yales ticket manager, ascribes the in
creased attendance to two things
new football and the automobile.
declares that the revision in
the playing code increased the popu-
larity OF the sport, and that the now
very general use of the motor car has
gained many new devotees to the au-
tumn pastime. The fact that the Yale
supply of tickets for the army game
was exhausted is proof conclusive of
the hold that the game has taken at
New Haven.
While the Bulldog will not take the
field against his ancient rival, the
Tiger, until November Is, and Harvard
a week later, those Interested are al
ready preparing for the match. 1t
goes without saying that Princeton's
invasion of New Haven will be most
complete. The entire student body
will probably make the trip and host
Of graduates and friends of the uni
are expected to be on hand. AL
ready there is talk of the famous jun
gle town "eating clubs" making the !
trip in special cars. Taken from every
the match will certainly be |
featured by an orange and black tint |
ng of the Bulldogs preserves. And at |
thought is already being
given to the great crowd that will
5hrong the stadium on November 20, |
The date of the Yale game.