The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-09
PRINCETON and YALE
TO DEDICATE STAD|UMs
Playing Fields Capable OF Seating
Vast Multitudes to BE Offlcially
Opened.
COST OVER MLLIoN DOLLARS
Differ Greatly From an Architectural
Standpoint-Gotllic Style Is Fol-
Iowed-France's Premier Distance
Runner Killed In Battle.

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NEW YORK. November s.-CIassic
Eastern football games will take on
added interest this month, for within
two weeks Princeton and Yale will
dedicate imposing stadiums. playing
contests before an aggregate assem-
bly, of more than 100000 spectators. The
initial gross gates receipts Will ex-
coed 100000. while travelling. hotel
and other incidental expenses on the
part OF tho spectators will add fully
s5so.ooo to tho totnl amount expended
In witnessing the play. III fact. Il Is
probable that the opening of these
colossal football amphitheatres will put
more than 100000 In circulation
when tho railroad advertising. train.
Ing. hotel. restaurant and a score OF
Incidental operating disbursements arc
considered
Another million dollars is repre-.
sented In the present structures and
the adjacent buildings and improve
ments either under construction or pro-
Jected The Palmer memorial stadium,
presented to Princeton University By
Edgar Palmer. OF the class 1908. rep
resents an outlay or 100000. tho In
divldual gift OF Mr.. Palmer. The Yale
Coliseum when completed Will have
cost 100000. The land upon which it
stands cost approximately 100000.
while 100000 was expended tor the
bowl. as 1t Is termed at Yale. An
onther 100000 will be spent In the
erection OF the new athletic clubhouse
and the baseball cage. Still another
100000 Will be devoted to a general
improvement OF tho ground surround
ing the new buildings. This large sum
of money has con secured In part BY
class and graduate subscriptions: pri-
vato donations and from existing Attn
letic Association funds available at
Yale.
From an architectural standpoint the
two stadiums diner greatly. Seen from
distance the Princeton structure Is
extremely imposing. resembling to n
certain extent tho Hnrva,S stadium on
Soldiers Field. Cambridge The Gothic
style carried out In all Princeton build
ings has been followed as far as pos
sible. 1t Is OF U shape with the omen
end facing Carnegie Lake The main
entrance ut the northern end consiats
of two massive towers connected by n
sweeping arch. On each sid, Of this
entrance smaller arches alternate with
supporting columns throughout the ex-
terror length Of the stadium. II is so
situated that the rays Of the Novem-
Der sun strike tho field at right angles
giving each team equal advantage In
the matter of light and shadow.
The general statistics of t'e stadium
are as follows: Seating canacity. a.
GEO: length. 6T2 feet; width, $50 feet;
re !Sht. sixty six foet: number OF rows
OF seats. forty eIght; number Of exits,
twenty-six. Under the tiers OF seats Is
g concourse which will permit or a
winter running track while surround
Ing the football field proper, Is n quar-
ter OF a mile running track with
2c0-yard straightaway. The structure
In composed entirely of reinforced con-
crete. Although the Dartmouth and
Williams College teams played In the
stadium. the formal opening Will DO
held In connection with the Yale game
next Saturday.
It Is not until the spectator enters
the Yale bowl" that the immensity OF
the New Haven stadium dawns upon
him. Duo to Its sunlten type OF archi-
lecture, the structure Ia not impressive
when seen from distance. In gen
eral appearance It resembles reser-
volr retaining wall Of moderate
height, surmounted by turfed bank,
Is hrst seen Rs one approaches the am
phithentre The wall Is pierced by a
number OF entrances, while the main
entrance is through a large arch fianked
by tall towers somewhat on the order
OF the gateway of the princeton etad-
ium. Once the upper tiers OF seats In
the Yale bowl" are reached. however.
there is a complete change In the pic
ture.
The structure stretches away in q
perfect circle. row after row Of eeats
descending like steps to the playing
field far below. There are fifty-seven
circular tiers Of these seats. giving a
capacity for a trlie more than $1,000
spectators. BY the erection OF Htee,
superstructure around the crown of
the bowl seating arrangements can
he made for 100000 persons, should the
future attendance at big football games
warrant this addition. The rows OF
seats are divided by circular and right
angle concourses and aisies and en-
trance or exit is made through some :
thirty tunnel-lilSc ramps The extreme
height is n little over sixty feet. The
field is about twenty-five feet below
The surface and the retaining wall
and bank rising about thirty-five feet
above the surrounding land. Due to
the great circular sweep, distances
across the structure are considerably
magnihed.
Confrmatory cables regarding the
recent death OF Frances premier dis
lance runner, Jean Bouin, show that
he was killed In action, dying as no
lived. like patriotic Frenchman.
Since the outbreak OF the European
war several athletes have been killed
or MANNED. but none Of them had
reached the high mark of athletic
merit which Bouin did since he first
came into prominence during the
Olympic games in 1908, when. through
a misunderstanding, he failed to take
part in the final Of tho three-mile team
race for which he had qualified.
During the three years Bouin made.
quite a record as q distance and cross
country runner. He ran second to A.
L. Wood In the international cross
country race at Derby, England, in
1909, being only couple of yards be-
hind the British champion at the finish.
Later In the same year Bouin estab-
lished New French records from three
miles upwards, and. although suffer-
Ing from an injured ankle, finished
second in the English national OF 1910.
In 1911 he won this event ut Newport,
and repeated the following year at