The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-11-22
SUPPLYING DEMAND
FOR BIG GAME SEATS
So Great Is Rush for Tickets at Big
Varsity Matches That Manage
ments Are Hard Pressed.

New York, Nov. 22.-The enormous
demand for seats at the big inter-varsity
football games in all parts of the coun-
try 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 accommodations for the most
important game of the schedule. 1t is
always necessary to curtail the allot-
ment of coupons, and in many cases to
return hundreds of applications because
of the impossibility 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 additional for transportation and
hotel accommodations previous to the
game.
In no case has the increased seating
capacity of new stadiums kept pace
with the interest in football and the de-
mand for tickets. The task of handling
the applications outgrew the undergrad
uate football manager years ago and at
present corps of stenographers and
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 accom-
panying checks and postal orders covers
several months. In the case of the Yale
Harvard, Army Navy, Princeton.Yale
and games of similar type, the mail ar
rives by bagful in every delivery. Ii re-
mains for the management to apportion
tickets representing less than so per cent.
of the total application in such way
that undergraduates and alumni may
have first call ON the coupons. The
chance of the average outsider may be
CLEANED when it is stated that with 49,
900 seats available for the Army Navy
game, there were $4,000 applicants. The
Harvard stadium, where the Yale
Harvard game is played to-day holds
with temporary additions about 10000
spectators. According to Graduate
Treasurer r. W. Moore of the Harvard
Athletic association, 100000 seats would
oc hNSucu W iuiig supply TUE ucHidnu.
In writing of the rules governing the
distribution 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 for
the past twenty years with the hand
ling of our great game. Since then our
graduate list has been growing at the
rate of nearly a thousand year, and
the proportion of the younger 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.
"The whole trouble in a nutshell is
that we need hundred and fifty thou
sands seats and we have less than forty
Even at New Haven, where
the price of tickets is only q small part |
of the cost of attending the game for
most of the spectators, the management |
is building colosseum to accommodate |
nearly seventy thousand people With |
the game at Cambridge, where the tick |
cts represent practically the whole ex-
pense of the majority of those who at |
tend. | am convinced that an unrestriet- |
ed sale TO graduates and under graduates |
only, for the use of themselves and their !,
friends would dispense of at least hun |
dred thousand SEATS