The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-22
SPORT GOSSIP

New York, Nov. 22.-The enormous
demand for seats at the big inter-
varsity football games In all parts Of
the country this autumn presents new
problems for the undergraduate and
graduate managers which they are
having great difficulty in solving , No
college stadium has yet been built that
afforded ample seating accommodate
tons for the most important game Of
the 1t Is always necessary
to curtail the ~allotnaents of D
ana IN many cases to return hundreds
or applications because Of the impossi-
ollity OF seating the thousands who are
Will to pay from 50 to SO for tickets
and spend from SIS to $50 additional
FOR transportation and hotel accommo-
cations previous to the game.
In no case has the increased seating
capacity Of new stadiums kept pace
with the interest in football n the
demand for tickets. The task of
handling the applications outgrew the
undergraduate football manager years
ago and at present a corps of stem
~ographers and a2large clerical force Is
necessary to open, file and reply to
these requests for seats. This situa-
ton applies, Of course, only to the most
important and closing games Of the
season, but the work and detail re-
jAAA III I1A ShllIlS IDI
thousands of applications and the ac-
companying checks and postal orders
covers several months. In the case of
the Yale-Harvard, Army-Navy, Prince
ton Yale and games of similar type, the
mail arrives by bagful in every deliv-
cry. 1t remains for the management
to apportion tickets representing less
than SO per ent Of the total applica-
ton In such a way that under-gradu-
ates and alumni may have first call on
the coupons. The chance of the aver
age outsider may be cleaned when 1t
is stated that with $4,000 seats avail
able for the Army-Navy game, there
were $4,000 applications. The Harvard
stadium where the Yale-Harvard game
is played today, holds, with
temporary additions, about 40, 700 spec
tators. According to Graduate Treas.
II. w. Moore Of the Harvard Athletic
association. 10000 seats would be
needed to fully supply the demand. In
writing Of the rules governing the dis
tribution Of the tickets and the prob
lem in general Mr. Moore says:
THE whole, object OF all these rules,
however, Is to distribute an utterly in
adequate supply OF seats in the fairest
possible way among Harvard men.
They are the result of the experience
of all the men who have been connect
ed with the handling Of our great game
Since then our graduate list has been
growing at the rate Of nearly ], 900 a
year. and the proportion of the young
err graduates who wish to attend the
games is much greater than in the
Older classes, because they have been
brought up on football in school and
college, and naturally have more real
interest in the game itself.
1.-THE whole trouble in a nutshell is
that we need $50, 900 seats and we have
less than 10000. Even at New Haven
where the price Of tickets is only 8
small part OF the cost of attending this
game for most Of the spectators, ths
management is building a colosseum
to accommodate nearly 10000 people
With the game at Cambridge. where
the tickets represent practically tht
whole expense to the great majority oi
those who attend, ! am convinced tina
Ian unrestricted sale to graduates and