Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jayvees, in addition to a four-game schedule of their own, run opposition plays and scrimmage with the varsity. Their competitive season opens here on Oct. 15 against Army, followed by Dartmouth, Brown, and Yale. First string end Dick Hyde and tackle Will Davis are two examples of men who rose from the jayvees to the varsity last year...
...this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
Harvard had not played Columbia in New York since 1902 and had not played a major game in Gotham for well over a quarter of a century. There was no precedent to go by. Lunden was driven to a crystal ball for his prediction of Harvard fan attendance at an early season away game. He made the unfortunate assumption that undergraduates would not want to go to an away game the first Saturday after they arrived in College. So he decided to sell tickets first come, first served...
Lunden telegraphed Columbia again last night and 1500 more tickets, also of the not-so-hot variety, go on sale today. Nevertheless, these seats are probably better than any you can got at Columbia before the game...
...hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good locations...