Evening star., 1933-08-30
GRID TICKET PRICES
GET FURTHER CUTS
Colleges Throughout U. S. to
Lower Fees From 10
to so Per Cent.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.


n YEW YORK, August 30.-Col-
M lege foot ball, already well
/ Y primed and fortified to
crash the sports picture
again, will meet keen competition
this Fall with the lowest scale of
prices for spectators since pre-
war days.
On top Of sharp reductions made
within the past year or two, in the at
tempt to check declining attendance
for all but the most alluring gridiron
attractions, nearly half the Nations col
leges and universities will slice admis-
sion costs further this season.
A majority Of the so-called big
league" colleges are among those low
ering the scale, notably along the East
ern front. but also in the Middle West,
Southwest and on the Pacific Coast.
Wide Range Of Slashes.
n EDUCTIONS range from 10 to so
N per cent in the East, an average
Of about 20 per cent in the Mid
west and from 10 to 40 per cent In the
Far West, according to figures COM
piled in q survey for the Associated
Press
Thirty out Of sixty-two East
ern colleges replying to . Ques-
tionnaire indicated reductions In
ticket prices. Twenty-n 9TH
ers will stand pat on their 1892
scale, with a few absorbing the
new Government tax.
Only two, the University Of Maine
and Geneva College of Beaver Falls,
Pa, expressed sufficient confidence in
an 'upturn" to announce they will
raise admission charges this year. One
Bethany College of West Virginia, will
continue last years policy Of free ad-
mission to all home games.
Top prices vary with the attraction,
but the 81 game, plus tax. will be more
Of rarity than ever: Only the Yale
Harvard game remains in this price
Blue or the Crimson, leaving it on the
same level with the Army-Notre Dame
classic in New York. TOPS" for such
old standbys as Yale-Army, Princeton
Yale and Harvard-Army now are listed
at 50 plus tax.
Coast Classic Affected.
TVEN the "big game on the West
n, Coast between Stanford and Cali
fornia is $4 affair this year,
compared with a previous top Of S..
Only Notre Dame of the big
school group holds to the pre-
depression prices, boz seats for
the Southern California game at
South Bend going for $3.50 each
1Dith the best reserved seats at
$40.
fOv 1aA Two oo&i &ix,a <rov
in the Midwest, South, Southwest and
Rocky Mountain Conference groups
range from $3.50 to $3.50 in most cases.
with some at 50.
Although the University of Denver
with the biggest stadium in the Rocky
Mountain Conference, has abolished the
50-cent seat as "non-paying" propo-
sition, Stanford will try selling end
zone seats at only Is cents for lesser
games and the University Of Kansas
will offer the same price to schoolboys.
TN addition to blanket reductions in
single game or season ticket prices
in the Southwest Conference, Pa
cific Coast Conference and Big Six Con-
ference. colleges announcing 1888 re-
ductions so far include the following:
South-North Carolina State.
Rocky Mountain-Utah and Denver.
New DECENTRALIZATION College, Trim
ity. Springfield, Northeastern, Yale and
Harvard
New York Colgate, Rochester,
Army, Niagara. Fordham
Pennsylvania - Allegheny. Bucknell,
Moravian. Gettysburg, Grove City,
Muhlenberg. Franklin and Marshall,
Pittsburgh. Westminster, Ursinus, Tenn
pie. washington and Jefferson Lafay-
ette, Carnegie, st. Vincent's and Le-
high.
Also Navy. Western Maryland and
Rutgers.