New-York tribune., 1909-11-20
BIG RUSH FOR GAME
SEATS HARD TO GET.
Boston Full to the Brim on
Ere of Struggle.
TBy TeIegraph 10 The Tribune

BY Telegraph 20 The Tribune
Boston. Nov. 1s-Every hotel in Boston is
full tonight, full OF those who will be on
hand tomorrow 20 cheer Yale and Harvard
In their twenty-ninth football game. 70 be
played in the huge Stadium at Cambridge.
Captain Hamilton Fish jr, OF Harvard,
will lead HIS team 20 the fray, beyond a
doubt, and this week there is no lingering
doubt. as was the case last Saturday, OF
the ability Of Captain Coy. OF Yale. 10
play. Ready" is the word from each
camp, and ready" is the word from the
twenty thousand visitors who are already
IN town for the game
The unwise ones who came in to-day on
trains and I'm automobiles-the latter brand
OF tourist in amazing numbers-without
having prepared for their stay BY reservlng
rooms had 70 do some wild rushing around
10 get a place 10 sleep A canvass OF ff-
teen leading hotels failed 10 reveal a room
that had not long been taken from tonight
until Monday, and the smaller hotels and
boarding houses were beginning 70 be un-
comfortably fun by o'clock
Clear weather. crisp and cool has added
20 the enthusiasm. The experts predict a
cloudy sky tomorrow. with light west 70
southwest winds. blowing across the Sta
dunn. and a rising temperature. II could
be warmer than IL is tonight without
being too hot for the players. as II was at
New Haven last Saturday and such a
change would be welcomed by the crowd
Harvard men hope for clear weather,
which would help the Crimson backs in
handling punts. as they see IT,
This town has football fever The talk
everywhere is OF the game. This man asks
If M!not can equal Coy as a line bucker,
and that one says he thinks PhilDin will
md II hard 10 make any long runs this
time. with a world o. emphasis on the
this Girls are talking about H. too
flushed and pretty in their excitement as
they stand about the lO5biss talking 10 old
friends who have appeared suddenly. as Id
friends do the night before a football game
or a boat race.
The betting is quiet. bur continuous.
Scarcely a moment passes without the
recording OF some wager. small Or large,
and the odds favor Yale. Confidence IN the
Harvard teams ability TO sharter the old
time tradition and beat Yale on the grid
iron In TWO successive years, as last sum
mer's victory on the Thames shattered a
similar aquatic tradition, has grown vastly,
however. since II became certain that Cap
tain Fish would al least start the game
This is what Fish had 10 say himself to-
day: There is no truth in the report that
/ Will not be able 10 play. I am as strong
as I have ever been. and unless I am
killed 7 viii see the game with Yale
through 20 the finish"
There isn't any "Are-we-doWnhearted2' %
spirit about the Harvard crowd this year.
That time is past ar Cambridge, II seems
Crimson football Teams and crews do not
90 into a struggle with Yale any longer de-
termined TO make a good showing. Some
man said 10 Percy Haughton Yesterday:
We'll. Percy. I guess the boys will make
good showing. even If they don't win"
HaughtOn looked az him a minute and
then replied, How can a team make
good showing # il doesn't VIM We're
not winning great moral victories here any
more The score is the thing that indi-
Gates a victory. not the number OF touch
downs you keep the other team from max
ing after It's got enough 10 win"
There are g O00 seats in the Stadium
against nearly forty thousand two years
ago, the open space az the north end not
having been as generously filed this year
Students, graduates and families Of appl-
cants OF these two classes will make up
practically the whole crowd spectators
having been pretty well frozen out by the
menL
Applicants received their tickets by regis
tered mail and had 10 sign personally for
the letters containing them students at
Cambridge being required 70 go personally
To the postofice and furnish identification
Forgery Of applications has helped the
specuIators in other years. but that chan
nel was closed this time.
Il is almost impossible 10 md a specu-
lator who has any tickets al all, and those
who possess them are asking fancy prices
Fifty dollars a pair vas about the stand
ard quotation yesterday. but few changed
hands even so. and more was offered to-
day The Harvard management Is watch
ing the spectators with extreme care, and
IN cases where tickets are presented which
have passed through the hands Of specu-
lators they will be taken up, cards for
the seats being issued 70 applicants en-
titled 20 seats who Rave been unable 10
get tickets in any other way. All in all
considering the care the authorities have
taken In every detail. the purchaser OF A
Sp4culator's ticket who sees the game can
esteem himself lucky