New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-30
DELUCE Of ORDERS
FOR FOOTBALL TICKETS
Demand for Seats to See the
Big Game Greater than
Ever Before.
NO APPEASING APPETIT e
Close to 10000 Persons VIII
Watch Play in the Four
More Important Battles
of the Season.

Any lingering doubt regarding the popu-
larity Of intercollegiate football under the
revised playing rules is removed by the
deluge of applications pouring in upon
those in charge Of the ticket distribution
for the big games Of the season.
The demand for seats surpasses any
record Of previous years, and the various
managements are at their wits ends try
ing 10 devise some method of eQuitably
meeting the situation.
From present indications the seating
capacity Of the various fields upon which
the Yale-Harvard. ArmyNavy, Harvard
Princeton. Pennsylvania-Cornen ana
Princeton-Yale sames will be played VIII
he unequal TO the demands already beng
filed by alumni. undergraduates and their
friends.
One of the surprises of the season Is the
increased interest in the Army-NaVE
game. TO be played in this city on Novem-
her O. II was thought that with the
transfer Of the contest from Franklin
Field. Philadelphia. to the Polo GROUNDS
the 1000 seats would accommodate an
those who desired TO witness the play
Such. however. is not likely to be inc
case. and il is possible there VIII be no
public sale Of seats. as was orlsilahy
planned. With about 1000 seats available
for such sale under the most favorable
conditions, even this small percentage Oh
the total seating capacity of the Foio
Grounds may be greatly reduced by pre-
ferred applications. which are being &c
livered i'm big bundles by every man.
For several years there has been no
public sale of tickets for the lale-har-
ward and Princeton-Yale games. ana the
demand for those privileged to apply ior
these coupons under the rules Of the com
netting universities has increased TO the
point where the allOtments are being cur
tailed greatly in order that thefe may oe
no charge of favoritism
The ticket situation has reached Inc
point where tremendous demand offers Il
promising field for the spectators III
order To cope with this evil the various
college organizations and publications d'e
issuing warnings uron the subject OF
selling or giving away tickets allotted %
those entitled to them similar TO the loi-
loving published at Yale Universal.
The black list is no empty phantom
I, i real book. bound in black, COM
niled with the aid of large corps OF de-
tectives, and kept in the ticket once u
receive and retain the names OF inose
whose infringement of the rules MAKE III
eligible tor rurther applications ior
tickets The wise will avail themselves OF
the opportunity to redeem tickets that
they do not intend to use themselves,
thereby insuring that they will not be en-
rolled among this doubtful company
In round numbers 5000 seats VIII be
available for the Yale-Princeton game ID
New Haven on November Is and @S."O Tor
the uarvard-Yale game at Cambridge on
November % Twenty-seven thousand
seats will be the capacity OF the STANDS al
University Field Princeton, where Prince
ton and Harvard meet on November 8
More than 1909 Harvard undergraduates
are expected TO make the trip from cam
bridge for this last named game ana
Princeton men. of course, VIII attend III
a body. The alumni Of the two uilVeIs'-
tics and their friends will probably &C
count for the remaining seats.
The Harvard cheering sections VIII
travel TO Princeton by special steamboat
and train service, and while the CRIMSON
brigade will be numerically stronger thah
the PENNSYLVANIA brigade that VIII invade
Ann Arbor for the Michigan game week
later. the Quakers' football caravan VIII
be most pretentious one. considering the
long journey
THE University of Pennsylvania spe-
ciaI" which will leave Philadelphia on
November II, will consist oil three s''e
sleeping cars. one observation one oihiile
and one club car.