New Britain herald., 1927-11-12
BOWL OF THRILLS
 JAMMED ID EDGE
Glitterin6 Spectacle When Yale
 EntatainS Football Rivals

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 EntGtains Football Rivals
 Tho Yale Bowl, mammoth and tradition-wrapped, is the goal this afternoon Of some So,o00 sporting enthusiasts from all parts of New England and New York and New Jersey, all seeking the thrills which are certain 10 be forthcoming. No college football game, unimportant and slow as it may be, is without an enveloping atmosphere of excite ment, and the mere knowledge that one is a part of the vast throng ranked tier upon tier around the Bowl is sufficient to stir the feelings of the most cold -bloeded.
 The days furry begins long be- fore the start of the game. for there Is the New Havenward journey in the midst of the years heaviest au- tomobile traffic or in trains crowded with good-natuIed enthusiasts bound for the same spot. Despite the ad- vice of the Yale Athletic association that all those who can do so con- yeniently come to New Haven by train, the crowd of autos grows larger yearly. Traffic on all roads radiating from the Elm City on the days Of big games is practically n one-vay proposition, and in New Haven itself whole streets are turned into e-directional lanes and others are completely closed. The police state and City-have finally learned that speed is q necessity and not q danger with such volume of lraf- tic, and many driver has been warmed to 8. new appreciation Of the worlds goodness by the call Of d state policeman to step on it. or of city traffic officer 10 double up and mako a new line" The police seem to enter into the spirit of the , day and are more than usually good natufed.
 Help to Earn Rent
 1 Arrived at the eishborhood of the Bowl, the motorist next faces the problem of finding q parking space. The official parking fields are | damned and growing smaller as the 1 building of the uniyersity's tremen, dous athletic plant proceeds. Ten, ants Of houses along the main en- frances to the Bowl turn this t( their profit and convert their yards and driveWays into parking places charging anywhere from 25 cents tC Sl, depending upon the importance of the game. There still remain { few side streets where free parking away from the crowd is to be found but only the experienced know O the location of these.
 Upon setting out from the auto t( the Bowl itself, one is immediatel, assallcd by what seems to be hal the population Of New Haven, al engaged in vending souvenirs o the game" These range from win
 ming colOrs" Chat feathers) througi miniature bulldogs. dolls on sticks and mega jazzphones' to otficia
 programs, with coffee and hot doj
 sta nds on every fourth lawn an
 the entrance gates surrounded b
 cordons of uniformed girls passin
 out free samples of tooth pastes an
 other wares.
 Hold your own ticket" then he
 comes the cry. and no sooner doe
 one do il than an attendant takes
 away. But he merely tears off
 corner and hands it back as 70
 pass through the outer gates. The
 comes the finding Of the prop"
 portal and seat, feat by no mean
 so difficult as American humorlSt
 paint it, as everything Is numbcrc in sequence and there are so man
 willing uShcrs that the real har
 work is in getting through then
 Aisle 4 strengthened, B on the rlgh
 C on the left" shouts q loud-roicc man at ,h" inner end Of each port;
 tunnel, and then ushcrs find one
 seats with dispatch.
 The Bowl Is Full (Sh-hD The Bowl is full. Eighty thou:,an people arc crowded into the .tt dium 10 watch the work of - youn athletes and praise or cond"m them on thc showing they make , one hour o( their lives. A vast, ril bling, oval ocean of humanity CT
 circles the playing field. some , them almost q quarter Of a mile oI 5 The asscmblagc is much too larl I to allow the picking out or ird l yiduals. and individual personal l ties are swallowed up in the comp Q sition of that Of the mob. Porha1 c the most striking feature Is q r predominance of red. largely It r hats of the fair sex. but upon clos '. scanning it Is possible to see th
 there actually is more blue, but th n the red stands out more promincn q ly. The blurred rainbow has but ol { break, over on the west side, whc Q d solid mass of gray-or yellow q the day promises rain-dcnotes Il |. Yale cheering section. Against t
 sun on the same side thin smo :. streams rise from thousands cigarettes.
 Far up above the Yale cheerorS d the press stand, with reporters :" I, telegraphers from all the lcadll New York and New England papt'
 Tn d covered booth are the camtr
 Of the motion picture news WcekIi'
 and at one end are the microphon through which the gam" Will sho' ', ly be related 10 an even larger nni ' her Of people than are witnessing
 And then thcrc is the man Wlth |
 mega phone, who picks mp "sn' '' from a swcalered ccsticulator on | :, field and informs the ScTlpra as who carries the ball and who max