Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-12-01
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR FOOTBALL SEATS
A PUzzLER
Managers Wrestling This Year
With Difficult Problem Of
Getting Grounds Big
Enough for Crowds.

tAssociatcd Press Correspondence T
New York. Dee. THE enormous
demand for seats at che bic intcr-var.
sity football gambs In an parts Of tho I
country this autumn presents new
problems for the undergraduate and I
graduate managers which they are
having great difficulty IN solving. No /
college stadium has set been built
That afforded ample seating accom-
modations for the most important
game OF the schedule II Is always
necessary TO curtail tho allotment of
coupons. ana IN many cascs 20 re-
turn hundreds Of applications because
of the impossibilty Of seating the
thousands who are willing 90 pay
from two dollars to three dollars for
tickets and spend from fifteen dol.
lars TO fifty dollars additional for
transportation and hotel accommoda-
tions previous to tho game,
In no case has the increased scat
Ing capacity OF new stadium Kept
pace with the interest in football and
the demand for tickets The task OF
handling the applications outgrew
the undergraduate football manager
years ago and at present corps Of
stcnographcrs and large clerical
force ls necessary To open, file and
reply to these requests Tor seats This
situation applies OF course only Ia the
most important and closing games Of
the season. but tho work ana detail
rcuired IN systematically caring For
thousands OF applications and the ac-
complaining checks and postal orders
covers several months. In the case
OF tho YalC-IIarvurd Army-NaVy,
Princeton Yale ana games Of similar
type. the mail arrives hy hagfuls la
every delivery. u remains FOR tho
management To- apportlon tickets. rep
rcscnting less than go per cent uf
tho total application 40 such way
that undergraduates ana alumni may
have first call on the coupons Tho
chance OF the average outsider may
De CLEANED when IL 10 stated that with
5000 seats available for the Army
Navy game there were $4,000 nppli-
cations The Harvard stadium whore
the Yalc-Harvard game was played
holds with temporary additions about
1000 spectators. According To- Grad
uatc Treasurer r. W Moore. ot the
Harvard Athletic association. 5000
seats would be needed Co fun ysup.
PLY the demand. Ia writing Of the
rules governing the distribution of
the tickets ana tho problem in gen
cr1l Mr.. Moore says;
"Tho whole object Of am these
rules. however, Is to distribute ou
utterly Inadequate supply OF scate ~
the fairCst possible way among llur-
ward men. They are the result OF
tho experience OF all the mon who
have been connected for tho past
twenty years with the handling of our
groat game. Since then our graduate
list has been growing 900 the rate OF
nearly thousand "a year ana tho pro-
portion OF the younger graduates WIN
wish 10 attend the g1mes is much
greater than In tho older clHsso7. bee
cause they have been brought up ON
football in school ana college. ana
naturally have more real interest BOO
tho Romo itself
"rhr whole trouble in nutshell
Is that We need hundred ana flr-
~ thousand seats ana we have less
than forty thousand. Even go New
Haven. whore the price of tickets 9
only small part OF the cost of at-
tending the game Tor most Of Tho
spectators. tho management is build
Ing a colosseum 10 accommodate
nearly seventy thousand people with
The game pt Cambridge whore tho
tickets represent practically tho whole
expense 90 tho great ma iority of thoF.
who attend ] am convinced that nm
unrestricted sale 90 graduates and
undergraduate only, for the use of
themselves and their friends, would
dispose Of M least % hundred thuus
and seats"