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Prospects look good this year for paying all bills. In 1942 the team had a poor season and the following year football was discontinued. When the sport was resumed formally last fall, it was too late to work more than a few "big" games into the schedule, and the H.A.A. had the frustrating experience of watching an exceptionally good team materialize form nowhere, only to play before relatively small crowds. The Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale games were held in the smaller of the two available stadiums; the Connecticut, Tufts, Coast Guard, and Rutgers games had little drawing appeal...
Several Sellouts in View This Fall...
Pursuing this fall's schedule further, the Dartmouth and Princeton games will be here and the Yale game in New Haven, so that in each case the larger stadium will be used; the Holy Cross game should also be a near sellout; and Bingham predicted a large crowd for the Rutgers game based on the psychological spectator reaction of last year's defeat. "The Dartmouth-Holy Cross 0-0 tie was probably a good thing for us," he added, explaining that if one of these teams slumped off this year the attendance at all its games would fall...
...final note on the all-around picture, it is interesting is note that with all its advantages last year, the Yale A.A. ran behind too. The Elis continued formal football during the war and had one of the top teams in the cast last fall to lure large crowds into the broad expenses of the Bowl...
Miss Witt commented that the clearing up of the summer's late-check difficulties should also serve to speed up fall subsistence. She said that when the Vets Office survey on how many students were behind in checks this summer showed between 25 and 35 percent, the information had been relayed to the VA's New England branch of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Section...