The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-22
BIG FOOTBALL
GAMES ARE To
Be PLAYED OFF
INCREASED SEATING CAPACITY is
DEMANDED IN EVERY STADIUM
WHERE MORE PRETENTIous
CONTESTS ARE SctsEDULER
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

/ 4
| New York. Nov. 22.-The enormous
demand for seats at the big inter-var-
| sity foorhan games in ali 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 accomm oda-
t1onS for The most important game of
the schedule II is always necessary
to curtail the allotment Of coupons,
and IN many cases to return hundreds
of appli LEGATIONS because Of the iEnpos-
sibilfty of seating the thousands who
are willing to pay from two dollars to
three dollars for tickets and spend
from fifteen dollars to fifty dollars adj
ditiona1 for transportation ard hotel
acconmO daticnS previous to the game
In no case has the increased seating
capacity of new StadiuDIs kept pace
with the interest in football AND the
demand for tickets. The task of han
ding the applications outgrew. the un-
degraduate football manager years ago
and at present a corps of Stenogra-
piers and large clerical force is nee
essary to open, file and reply to these
requests for seats. This situation ap-
plies, of course, only to the most i'm
portant and closing games of the sea
son, but the work and detail required
in systematically caring for thousands
of applications and the accompanying
checks and postal orders covers sew
eral months. In the case Of the Yale
Harvard, Army-Navy, Prin ceton- Yale
and games of similar type the mail
arrives by bagful in every delivery. IT
remains for the management to aIJ-
portion tickets representing less than
so per cent of the total application in
such a way that undergraduates and
alumni may have first call on the
coupons. The chance of the average
may be cleaned when it is
&C., 4 ~, n
for the Army-Navy game, there were
$4,000 applications. The Harvard sta
dunn, where the Yale Harvard game
is played today, holds with temporary
additions about 10000 spectators. Ac-
cording to Graduate Treasurer r ". !
Moore Of the Harvard Athletic Asso-
citation, 10000 seats would be needed |
to fully supply the demand. In writ |
ing of the rules governing the distri- |
button Of the tickets and the problem |
in general Mr.. Moore says:
THE whole object of all these rules, |
however, is TO distribute an utterly /
supply of seats in the |
fairest possible way among Harvard |
perience of all the men who have
been connected for the past twenty |
years with the handling of our great |
game. Since then our graduate list |
" a, thousand a. year, and the proper |
ton of the younger graduates who 4
wish to attend the games is much !
greater than in the older classes, be-
cause they have been brought up on |
football in school and college, and nat
Ira1ly have more real interest in the
game itself.
The whole trouble in a nutshell is
hat we need a hundred and fifty
seats and we have less than
orty thousand. Even at New Haven,
where the price of tickets is only
mall part of the cost Of attending the
game for most of the spectators, the
is building a coliseum to /
nearly seventy thousand
people. With the game at Cambridge
where the tickets represent practically
he whole expense to the great ma
ority of those who attend. am con-
inced that an unrestricted sale to
-raduates and undergraduates only |
or the use Of themselves and their
riends, would dispose of at least a
hundred thousand seats"
How a Challenger Feels.
How it feels to play in the challenge
ound of the Davis cup, emblematic Of
he worlds tennis championship, isl