Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-30
ADMISSION TOO HIGH
Price OF Tickets Keeps Crowds
at Football Games Small.
coIlegians Just Starting Work Cannot
Afford to Fatronize Games at So
Eacfl-Eastern Stadiums Are
Crowded.

The way to populariZe football is to
popularize the prices of admission.
From the mparatiyely small crowds
that have climbed the bleachers at
Marshall field to watch the Maroons
during the last season, football ap-
pears to have lost its vital appeal 10
those who used to follow the game,
says a writer in the Chicago Journal.
In the east. however, 10000 spectators
lam into the stadiums to watch two
colleges play and there is as much riot
and joy in the stands as there was in
the good old days of the mass play"
For the privilege of witnessing one
of the games, the eastern college
charges S1.50. In the west, particu-
larry at the University of Chicago, 81
and SO are demanded as an admission
fee from each spectator. The game
is now snapper, faster exhibition
than it ever was, but aside from the
student body who are given 5O-cent
rates, not many so out to see it.
There are thousands OF college grad
yates in Chicago to whom the game
is still the only game. Many OF these
swarm out and could not be barred
from witnessing the familiar men IL
moleskin hammer away at each other
I'D and down the field by the most en-
orbitant OF prices. But the others,
those to whom al expenditure oil So
to s5 for two tickets is an Item OF
note and Importance, contine their IN
teresr TO the perusal OF the plays as
set forth in the newspapers the day
after the game The part OF the pub
lie that crowds the ball parks i'll the
summer are accustomed TO observing
the national heroes in the national
Gastime at an outlay of 10 cents. IL
is purely the arithmctical difference
between 10 cents and So that keeps
this same part Of the public from HE.
ing 10 the football fields.
To those who overcome their scrur.
les and dig up the necessary funds
required by the gridirOn ticket Offices.
football still furnishes the thrills and
spirit that it did in its palmiest days.
People. influenced if not awed by the
selves from populating the college
bleachers and in justice 10 their
spCrtsmanlilIe natures circulate the
sentiment that football isn't any good
I, n,fb
see.
The new rules are quoted as hav-
ing raised havoc with the game and in
his manner those who would have
gone are deferred All OF which is to
intimate that the same ones who de-
ride the new rules and other so-called
detrimental features Of football would
swarm out and enjoy the pastime were
The football tickets labeled 81 instead
of So.
Should the university powers lower
the admission fee, football would come
10 the front and inspire the same jul
bilation and intensity it did five years
ago. 1t might be said for the sake OF
argument that the general public, III
innate consumer and representative
of public opinion, would attend the
games. become impressed by the uni
yersity and when he acquired OF
springs send them thither for educa.
lion. Many other things OF this helpful
nature might occur, and undoubtedly
would.
In the university there is still the
same manifestations Oh the part OF the
students regarding the game.