New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-24
YALE COLISEUM TO
seat $4,000 PERSONS
Alumni Asked to Contribute
100000 to Build Great
Athletic Centre.
ARENA BELOW LAND LEVEL
Donors to Have First Choice
of Tickets for Games
100000 Clubhouse
Projected.
LRy TeIerrnph to The Tribune.

New Haven. MAY 23.-Plans for the con-
struction of a Yale coliseum TO seat ap-
proximately sixty thousand persons at the
football and other athletic contests be-
tween Yale. Princeton and Harvard, and
for the building of lawn tennis and squash
courts. baseball diamonds. football grid
irons and other fields for outdoor sports
sufficient TO afford accommodation for some
Two thousand Yale undergraduates will be
announced tomorrow by "The Yale Alumni
Weekly" A copy of the report of the COM
mittee Of tventy-one will be sent to every
Yale man.
Besides the features already mentioned.
a new baseball stand seating about twenty
five thousand and a modern clubhouse Will
he erected. The total expense is estimated
at t7oa 900. OF this amount the coliseum VIII
cost 10000 the eighty-fve acres of land
opposite the present Yale Field necessary
for the new project about $4,000. the club
house about 100000 and the new baseball
stand on the old field about $4,000. The
rest of the sum will be spent I'm general
development of the grounds.
Since March. 1871. various committees
lave been considering the entire PROPOSE
ton. and the general result OF their con-
illusions was that Yale needed first Of all
n general athletic field sufficient for the
entire university TO exercise upon
Secondly, the increasing attendance at
Yale's great football games resulted in the
exclusion Of so many Yale graduates that
1t was necessary to provide fuller accom-
1 e
proof and permanent stands to replace the
present wooden stands and lessen the pres
Ont cost Of repairing, which amounts to
$4,000 a year.
After considerable investigation the COM
mittee decided that a coliseum was much
TO be preferred over a stadium. Plans and
spccifca ions will be asked of several afchi-
tects at once, but il is certain that the coli
scum will be elliptical, and probably have
movable sections OF seats. The arena, or
playing field itself, Will be sunk about TWEEN
ty-four feet below the ground level and
the coliseum will have twenty-five rows Of
seats below ground level and thirty rows
above 1t will probably be I'm the form Of
an embankment Of earth faced with con-
crete, upon which VIII he placed wooden
seats and wooden foot rests. A broad foot
way will run around the top OF the coli
scum, accommodating many more speeta-
tors. The top row OF seats VIII be about
thirty feet above normal ground level
The baseball stands will be erected on the
present football field. The clubhouse viii
have every modern convenience.
To finance the scheme IL is decided to sell
10 graduates. non-graduates. undergradu-
ates and benefactors of Yale certificates
varying from $1,000 to 800, the only divi-
dcnd or privilege connected with them be-
ing the right to apply for from two TO ten
tickets at regular prices for all games In
the coliseum for fifteen years from the date
the coliseum is erected. This will give The
holders Of such certificates only the right
10 have their applications for seats filled
before all others. 1t is expected, as has
already been done in one case, that sew
cral graduates will give money for various
fields in the way of memorials. Part Of the
fund will be paid for out of revenues to be
derived from the new fields.
The general plans as stated have been
accepted and approved by the Yale Corpo-
ration. and tomorrow the actual canvass OF
Yale men for funds will begin. The com
mittee says that funds must be available
Immediately, in order to begin work. but
feels certain its appeal will be eagerly met.
As the contract Of subscription will expire
on December 81, 1927. it is evident that the
committee expects the coliseum TO be soon
available TO entitle the holders to their
fifteen years privileges.
Realization of the present plans will give
Yale the largest and most complete ath-
letic equipment in the country, If not in
the world.