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New HAvEN, Conn., NOVEMBER 25, 1896.
THE ALLOTMENT OF SEATS,
Tt is a work of supererogation to
elaborate the premise of this contri-
bution, which is, that fOLrM +; tae
standpoint of the students and grad-
uates of the competing colleges, the
facilities for seeing the great football
contest of the year are absolutely in-
adequate. But when this is said, it
ought also to be said that, given the
conditions as they exist to-day, the
Football Management of Yale attend-
ed to the wants of the students and
the graduates of this University, in a
most commendable way. The system
for the recording of applications and
the delivery of tickets was better than
ever, and the spirit which animated
the allotment was one of fair and im-
partial treatment.
To illustrate this last point, it would
do no harm to go into detail some-
what. The Football Association man-
agement decided, when the plans were
first made for the game, that every op-
portunity should be given to the in-
dividual applicant, whether he were a
student or a graduate. For that rea-
son a resolution was made and ad-
hered to, to refuse requests for appli-
cations for seats for any particular as-
sociation or club of college men un-
til the time,-if it ever came, when all
the individual applications had been
filled. It was further decided to al-
low no special list of favored men,
with the exception of the immediate
members of the football family, by
which we mean the members of the
eleven, and perhaps of the second
eleven, (who take all the hard knocks
and none of the glory of the year,)
the coaches, who give up their time
out of love of Yale, and such grad-
uates as have worked in making prep-
arations for this game and who ren-
der special assistance to the Associa-
tion.
Besides this, it was determined to
establish a precedent, whereby it
would be sure that a Yale man would,
at some time in his course, have a
chance to see the game from a good
position, and even have the luxury
of attending with one or two friends,
or better. On this ruling, it was de-
cided to give the applications of the
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Senior classes of the Academic and
Scientific departments the next
chances at seats, after the football list
referred to had been fitted out.
By this, one should not understand
that to each applicant was given the
very best seats left on the grounds
at that time, but he was given accom-
modations of some kind and fairly
good ones. To be sure of getting
something, as the sequel showed, was
an important privilege thus secured
for the Senior.
There were then left the undergrad-
uate applications and the applications
from the graduates. It is not to be
forgotten, by the way, that, in the
assignment of seats to the different
names, the method was by lot; a
number being drawn and the appli-
cant whose name, in the registry list
answered to that number, being then
alloted the seats.
The assignment was, therefore,
purely by lot. The next class of ap-
plications that were acted upon were
those from subscribers to the Yale
Alumni Weekly, the management
ruling, generously and, as we believe,
fairly, that among the alumni it was ©
natural to infer that those, who were
most interested in the University and
to whom therefore the favors of a
university affair should be given, were
those who have shown their interest
by keeping closest in touch with the
affairs of the University. The man-
agement of the Weekly, regretting..as
it did that anyone on its list was dis-
appointed, still felt it a cause for con-
gratulation that every subscriber, who
followed instructions and filed his ap-
plication in time, not only received
seats but good seats, either in the cov-
ered stand or open stand. Confession
must be made that, as much as we
would liked to have had our readers
receive exactly what they wanted, we
did not feel that it was cause for the
greatest sorrow that some should have
been in the open stand. It was quite
impossible for the management to use
up every foot of covered space before
going beyond our list.
After this all the graduates and un-
dergraduates were attended to as far
as possible; but it is already known
‘that at the end the Management was
four hundred seats short and a hun-
dred or more students failed abso-
lutely to get any seats. This was the
result, after the Association had made
every effort to buy uv any seats in
sight that were not held at too high a
fizure.
Here is met the first mistake—name-
ly, in the general allotment of seats.
It is now clearly seen by those who
controlled the ticket supply, that not
a single opportunity should have been
given to outside parties to secure
tickets until every bona fide Yale and
Princeton applicant had been supplied.
And yet, as it was, Yale was allowed
over five thousand out of the thir-
teen or fourteen thousand seats at the
Field, a much larger number’ than
ever before distributed at New Ha-
ven.
The point may be raised whether, in
the future, it will not be necessary to
announce that no one can be supplied
with seats until every undergraduate,
who wishes to go to the game has at
least one ticket. It is very much the
desire of the undergraduates to give
every opportunity to the graduates to
attend these great athletic events, and
a point has always been strained in
their favor, when it came to distribu-
tion. The graduates certainly ought
to have every opportunity. to go, and
yet it is hard to contend that any-
Wen KLY
body should take precedence over the
students of the undergraduate de-
partments of the University.
But, after all is said, this fact re-
mains. The New York game on Man-
hattan Field is an altogether unsat-
isfactory exhibition. If Yale and
Princeton must meet on midway neu-
tral grounds, let some place be chosen,
corresponding to Hamrden Park,
Springfield, especially constructed for
this purpose, with ample accommoda-
tions and _ situated somewhere
than in New York. It is hard to make
it a genuine Yale-Princeton affair in
the metropolis. It would be very
pleasant if everyone, who wanted to
see the game could do so, but in the
absence of an amphitheater seating
one hundred thousand or so, it is best
to make sure that those most inter-
ested and properly interested should
have the chance.
Other details of change of plans,
such as restricting the applications to
two seats, will probably be suggested
by this year’s experience. But let us
begin next year, by all means, with
good grounds. |
BHEI AME EE ARE
LAST SATURDAY’S GAME.
To the players who won on Manhattan
Field last Saturday, and to the Univer-
sity which they represented, the Week-
ly offers its sincerest congratula-
tions. They outdid their opponents, they
offered an unusually~ strong football
game, considered from any standpoint,
and they deserved their success. The
story of itis told elsewhere, and need
not be dwelt on or analyzed here.
As for Yale, it is not a time to be cast
down. One of her alumni or friends
could not have used his eyes fairly at
that struggle without being proud of an
institution which sent its men into
action with the spirit which animated
the hard fighters of the eleven of the
Blue. No one knows who has not been
through it—and very few have been
through it—what it means for football
players of Yale to find the score hope-
lessly against them. To fight on, then,
harder yet, against a superior foe,
flushed with victory, is not easy.
As commendable as the actual fight
on the field, is the spirit in which both
players and students of Yale accepted
the disappointing issue. The eleven
acknowledge the victory of better men.
The University accords high credit to
those who fought so well for her against
hopeless odds. There is no less genuine
admiration and warm regard for the
Captain, for those who worked so well
with him, and for those who worked
through the fall to bring forth the best
Yale could produce. |
To players of both elevens grateful
acknowledgment is due that the game
was kept so free from everything that
tends to lower the sport and to bring it
into disrepute.
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The news of Yale’s score at New
York, when displayed in the field at
Philadelphia, brought nine long ’rahs
with a ‘‘ Yale” at their end, from the
Harvard men there. This expression of
good will, though not given undue
significance, has been thoroughly appre-
ciated here.
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It has been necessary, in order to print
the addresses of the Class of 1896 in this
crowded issue, to omit the column of
alumni notes.
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present fall term has been announced
as follows:
November 29—Rev. H. M. Curtis, D.
D., of Cincinnati.
December 6—Rev. A. H. Merriam, of
Hartford.
December 13—Rev. J. H. Twichell, of
Hartford.
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A meeting of the Yale Alumni of
New York City was held at Sherry’s
on Friday evening, November 20. A
large number from outside of the city
were present as well as nearly all
alumni resident at New York.
Addresses were made by Professor T.
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