The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-16
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YALE ALUMNI KICKING
 ABOUT FOOTBALL SEATS
Demand New Scheme of Dfstr4but1na
 Tickets Next Season.


 New Haven, Dec 1s-Yale graduates who failed to secure tickets eor the recent HaEvard-YaJe football game are up in arms against the system of | ticket distribution which allows more than 2.oO0 tickets to be reserved for special 1ists''+ when 1000 graduates went tfclzetsless. It is the annual cry of disappoint tment that follows all big games. but the Yale Alumni Weekly caFIs for a change in the system It says editoria1ly:
 '"The annual aftermath of football season. which brings out the usual feeling over the shortage of tickets for vasalbIe to ask the ticket departnnent for statement of the facts, and th1s statement in the form of an ofTlcda1 table giving the allotment Of seats IS printed elsewhere in this issue. Rough iy speaking, of the if, 900 seats aAot- ted to Yale needs, 8, 900 went to grad ua'tes and former members Of Yale classes. 5000 to undergraduates and the faculty, and 2,ao0 to a group of special lists. While the system under which the allotment is made is Sup posed to be authorized by the respon- sfhle officers Of the athletic organizaa- ton of. the university, it Is probable that some revisdo1s could still further be made. in 1t which would be to the partment, which handles a. very diff fic1lat and Fnerv cracking business proposition in a very short pen1od of time each -falI--vvith we think. oonsao- erabIe tact and tudgment--works un- der the system that is outlined for it.
 | That this system is wrong in cer- tain respects we think will be realized when the figures are stadie6 It Is the fault neither of the manager Of l the ticket depar unent nor of the un- densraduate manager that this E so. l but of the system. What obJect1one ] graduates have, therefore, to the i'll 1 fate which may have overtaken them | again this fall in the matter of feot- 1 in constructive suggestions of a re- form of the methods under which the 1 tickets are distributed
 There were some 4,0Oo seats applied | for bv alumni this fall for the final game for instance, which had to be returned for lack of accommodations Next year there will be more than l 4 900 if the coliseum is not built. Ye1 200 tickets were held out of the al | lotment this fall for various speciaa purposes, chief of which was for the i underestimate management's dispersai through the football squad of 1s55( | tickets in one block.
 NO graduate would withhold from the players and coaches a very gen l erous allotment of the best seats 1T the football stand, but it should ap- ] pear when the situation regarding graduate underS1pply is taken into | account, that a more equitable diviS- | ion might be devised than the ont | above stated.
 .sF,or- that matter, and in the inter ests of complete understanding on thf part of the graduates and in fairness to the management of the annua ticket allotment it may be apliss tt suggest to the athletic committee thes 1 the present system should be vigorous IIy overhauled and revised, where re vision may be desirable. While thi. is being done the propriety of any I special list outside of the men wl16 are on the squad and official guest: of the university, should be carefully | inuuired into. Our notion Of the mat ter is that the principle of a 'specia list is open to discussion from mort than one point of view.'