The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-11-02
ADMISSION TOO HIGH
Price Of Tickets Keeps Crowds
at Football Games Small.
colleglans Just Starting Work Cannot
Afford TO Patronlze Games at So
Each-Eastern Stadums Are
Crowded

The way TO popularize football is to
popularize the prices Of admission
From the comparatively 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 TO
those who used to follow the game,
says q writer in the Chicago Journal
In the east. however. 10000 spectators
jam 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 Sl.50. In the west, particu.
larly at the University of Chicago. 81
and SO are demanded as an admission
fee from each spectator The game
Is now snappier. faster exhibition
than II ever was, but aside from the
student body who are given 50-cent
rates, not many go 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 in
| mOleskin hammer away at each other
up and down the field by the most ex.
orbitant OF prices. But the others,
those to whom an expenditure Of SO
to So for two tickets Is an item Of
note and Importance, coniine their in
terest 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 In the
summer are accustomed to observing
the national heroes in the national
pastime at an outlay Of IS cents. II
Is purely the arithmelical difference
between rs cents and 81 that keeps
this same part Of the public from HE.
ing to the football fields
To those who overcome their scrup.
les and dig up the necessary funds
required by the gridiron ticket Offices.
football still furnishes the thrills and
spirit that II did In its palmiest days.
People. influenced II not awed by the
price Of admission. restrain them.
selves from populatlng the college
bleachers and in justice to their
sportsmanlike natures circulate the
sentiment that football isn't any coed
any more and hardly worth going TO
see.
The new rules are quoted as hav.
ing raised havoc with the game and in
this manner those who would have
gone are deferred. All Of which is 10
intimate that the same ones who de-
ride the new rules and other socalled
detrimental features of football would
swarm out and enjoy the pastime we're
the football tickets labeled 81 Instead
of So
Should the university powers lower
the admission fee. football would come
to The front and inspire the same ju-
bilation and intensity II did five years
ago II might be said for the sake OF
argument that the general public. ul-
tlmG,e consumer and representative
of putlc opinion. would attend the
games, become impressed by the uni.
versity and when he acquired of.
springs send them thither for educa.
tion. Many other things Of this helpful
nature might occur. and undoubtedly
would.
In the university there Is still the
same manifestations on the part OF the
students regarding the game.