The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-11-22
Graduate Managers Have
Great Difficulty in
Handling 1t
APPLICATIONS FAR
EXCEED THE SUPPLY
American Tennis Expert Gives His
Impressions of the International Cup
Matches at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Intense.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-The enormous I
demand for seats at the big inter ,
varsity football games IN all parts of
the country this autumn presents new
problems for the undergraduate aud /
graduate managers which they are
having great difficulty i'll solving No /
college stadium has yet been built that /
afforded ample seating accommodations
for the most important game in the
schedule. 1t is always necessary to
curtail the allotment OF coupons, and
in many eases TO return hundreds OF
applications because OF the impossible
ty OF seating the thousands who are
willing to pay two to three dollars for
tickets and spend from fifteen dollars
to fifty dollars additional for transporta-
tiou and hotel accommodations preyi-
Gus to the game.
/ I'm no case has the increased seating
capacity Of new stadiums kept pace
with the interest in football and the
( demand for tickets. The task of hand
ling the applications outgrew the I'M
/ dergraduate football managers wears
/ ago and at present a corps Of stenog-
raphers and a large clerical force is
necessary to open, file and reply to
these requests for seats This situation
applies, of course, only to the most
important and closing games of the
season, but the work and detail re-
quired in systematically caring for
thousands of applications and the ac-
comPanyIng checks and postal orders
covers several months. In the case of
the Aale-HarVard, Army Navy. Prince
ton \ ale and games OF similar type,
the mail arrives by bagful in every
delivery. 1t remains for the manage
meut to apportion tickets representing
less than 90 per cent of the total
application in such way that under
graduates and alumni may have first
call on the coupons. The chance of
The average outsider may he cleaned
when it is stated that with $1,000 seats
available for the Armv-Nayv game,
there were 10000 applications. The
Harvard stadium, where the Yalc-Har-
ward game is played today holds with
temporary additions about 10000 spec
tators. According to Graduate Treas
urer +. w Moore of the Harvard
Athletic association, $50 900 seats would
be needed to fully supply the demand.
In writing of the rules governing the
distribution of the tickets and the
problem in general Mr.. Moore says:
The whole object of all these rules
however, is tc distribute an utterly
+ inadequate supply of seats III the fair
est possible way among Harvard men
J They are the result OF the experience
To- Of all the men who have been con
nccted for the past twenty years Will
the handling of our great game Since
then our graduate list has been grow
ing at the rate of nearly a th0usant
a year and the proportion of The
Younger graduates who wish to atten,
the games j. much greater than in thu
r older classes. because they have beer
brought up ON football in school an,
college, and naturally show more rea
t interest in the game itself
: '''Ihc whole trouble in n nutshell j
: that we need a hundred and fit,
thousand seats and we have less thar
It forty thousand. Even at New Haven
where the price of tickets is only
f small part of the cost OF attending TIL
4 game for most of the spectators, tn
7 management is building a colosseum t
accommodate nearly seventy thousan
people. With the game Mt Cambridge
: where the tickets represent practicalI
the entire expense to the great major
ity OF those who attend, | am cor
It WINGED that an unrestricted sale t
II graduates and undergraduates only, fo
,e the use of themselves and thei
v friends would dispose of at least
- hundred thousand seats -