Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-30
COLISEUM TO SEAT so,ooo.
Cost of New Athletic Plant Will Be $300, ,00o--Concre4e Structures ca-
 Pacity Can Be Increased if Desired.

There will be no lack of seats for the big football games at New Haven
 when the new Yale stadium is built Tickets for the Yale Harvard game
 were unusually scarce as is we'll known and graduates who counted on having
 at least one friend at the game con slider themselves fortunate to secure even a lone pasteboard. Conditions will be different with the stadium a
 reality-and it is planned to have it
 completed when Harvard visits New Haven again, two years hence. The great concrete bowl will accommodate 60,000 people and if necessary $100, 900 can be provided for
 The work of raising subscriptions Is in charge of the Yale committee of 21, incorporated, of which T. Dewitt Cuyler Is president, David Daggett secretary and Augustus F. Kountze treasurer. The committee has recom- mended and the Yale corporation has approved a financial plan based on the
 ticket privilege contract, under which those subscribing have the right to apply for tickets to all games in the coliseum, paying therefor the regular price for the tickets, and being as- sured seats in a reserved section which is to be the best in the stand A sub Scription of 5000 or more secures the right to purchase not exceeding ten tickets, which shall be located togeth- CT. A subscription of s900 secures the same right for nine tickets, $700 for eight, $600 for seven. $500 for six, s400 for five, $500 for four. s200 for three and s10o for two.
 The proposed coliseum is to be built at Chapel street and Yale avenue, opposite the present Yale field, in the semi-sunken type % feet below ground and 35 feet above ground. It is pro- posed to remove the loam from the territory to be covered by the field and stands, then to excavate the ma teriaI from the field, and use 1t for constructing an embankment; the in ner slope to be cut into treads of 27 inches and risers varying from eight
 inches at the bottom to about 1S inches at the top, each riser being about 3-32 of an inch higher than the one below 1t. These steps are to be pro- tected by a granolithic covering like sidewalk and curb. On there are to be built wood benches with a back and a foot rest to raise the feet from the concrete. The outside of the em- bankment is to be made on slope of one or two, covered with loam and seeded to grass.
 The entrance under the seats to the U6lQ lLSeu IS to De through a WlQo reinforc ed concrete tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the em- bank1nent to the field; the entrance to 1 the seats is to be made with smaller reinforced concrete tunnels arranged l around the stands and running in level \ from the surrounding grounds and ter | minating at an aisle about the middle | of the height of the stands.
 l As planned, there will be 57 rows of seats; the entire seating capacity | will be about 60,OOO. The cost, in- cluding the grading and turing of the | field, will be about $3O0,O00. The fork is large enough to warrant the en- | ployment of machinery, such as steam
 1 shovel and concrete mixing machines,
 which will enable the work to be done
 at low cost. The cost of maintenance
 will be practically nil,. as the wooden
 seats are the only portions of the work
 liable to deterioration. In case it was
 desired to enlarge the stands to ac-
 commodate 100000 people, it could be
 readily done by building a steel struc-
 ture over the other stands without
 affecting them in any way, except the
 removal of a few seats to provide
 space for necessary columns.