The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-21
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immensely of Great Yale Bowl
Appals Those Who See 1t
for First Time.
EVERY HOTEL rs CROWDED
Forecast for New Haven. fair weather.

NEW HAVEN. Nov. 20.--The first con-
tngent of the 10000 who are scheduled
TO see the Yale-Harvard game at the new
Yale Bowl tomorrow already has taken
possession of this college town. Hotels
and clubs are filed to overlooking until
It's question where they are all going
TO sleep. And vet Il Is said that hardly
half OF the estimated number who will
christon the bowl tomorrow have ar
rived as Yet. But It's by far the biggest
crowd that ever was seen in New Haven
on the eve OF a football battle
Yale alumni and their families and
for It is the first time IN years that
graduates who applied FOR tickets for a
fale-liarvltd game at New Haven were
sure that they could even take their wives
To the game. much less their families
because OF the scarcity OF tickets. This
year the Yale ticket management with its
10000 available seats, gave every grad
uate an opportunity to apply for four
tickets, practically guaranteeing them
Even at that the Yale officials thought
there would be plenty OF tickets left over.
But the supply of tickets was exhausted
before the limit FOR early applications
was over ard then It was up to the Yale
officials TO get busy and at the last mo-
ment add 10000 more seats to MAKE good
tAeir promises. The optlmis;s, VINO be-
lieved that with this new bowl there
would be plenty OF tickets for the public
are nightly disappointed lot tonight
for unless there should be a blizzard they
Al
Yale graduates who have had to refuse
for days past requests from their friends
Tor chance TO buy tickets at almost
any old price said tonight thai II there
We're 10000 more available seats now
they would go like hot cakes.
\ good many OF the graduates who got
70 town tonight came by motor from
FAR distant points. some OF them having
been on the way for week or more
Others who came by train have been a
Good deal LONGER en- route for applicants
TINS year have come from London or the
one side to Honolulu on the other. with
every state In the Union represented in
the graduate demand. For the trst time
In the history OF Yale football there has
been big demand for seats from over
the Canadian border. while whole fam
HES OF both Yale and Harvard graduates
are here from California ard as far south
as the Canal zone
Those to whom this Is the first chance
to get a glimpse AT Yales new football
stadium and whose only idea OF its i'm
mensity has been from newspaper cuts
and descriptions have been taking look
AT Il to-day by the hundreds Some OF
the enthusiasts have spent pretty much
AL the day out there. for its size has APP
palIrd those VINO haven't watched il grow
week after week. Every one who has seen
H. now that 1t IL ready to be opened to-
morrow. agrees with the country con-
stable who has been on duty at Val.
championship games practically ever since
the sport started and who. viewing Il to-
day for the first time from the press
stand. remarked Seventy thousand pe1-
pie - an awful lot Of people to Ne a settin'
here together"
But for weeks not only the university
but the city as well has been making plans
to accommodate as well AS possible the
vast number of people VINO are to be in
town over tins game. Two wears az T.,
when the last Nale-HarNard game was
played here, Ia" lIoyel Tai; had lust been
opened and this year auoths' big hosiery.
the HHtc. Garde, is accommodating i;s
hundreds %; guests. N addition to the Older
hotels that have taken care of footba 4
crowds year ai,tr wear. Practically every
private house occupied 10y Yale graduate
or memb.r of the faculty in town ma :
guests here for the game and at al tho
,'""0 fp'"I town on" needs "Nper'nCo in
football tactics 20 oven get il
With all the worry of providing seats
Tor the big Yale delegation the Yale attn.
let1c officials nave had no end OF plans
worked ou' for the accommodation OF
the thousands OF automobiles that are
going To make Try To get somewhere
within haling distance OF the Bowl TO.
morrow, 1t Is estimated that perhap.
10000 persons are planning to get to tn.
Bowl by motor and it is no end of a
proposition to provide parking space 70,
the number Of cars that Will carry these
flass "f the available parking spaces
OF the big Bow itself and how 10 get tc
ones SCAT, as well as how best to get
TO the new Held by foot or in the stree,
car. have been made public by the Yal,
officials through the newspapers, and
even maps have been sent out Showing
the best roads for Automobiles to tax,
to get to New Haven and just where tc
20 when they arrive here