Word: gate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with the above recommendations as far as they go, I do not think they go far enough to remedy the present demoralization in football. I feel that the game has lost its just proportions by the introduction of mercantile standards, and as a corrective, I advocate the abolition of gate-receipts. I do not see why a match game between students of competing colleges should not be played before invites guests, as in the Army-Navy contest. When a single game between Harvard and Yale brings in gate-receipts of $80,000, I think that commercialism has found good soil...
...young student. In Europe today the student whiles away his idle hours in drinking and duelling bouts, while even in England riots between town and gown are frequent occurrences. The overflow of student vigor in America has formerly taken the form of such college pranks as ragging of signs, gate lifting, and hazing. Those disorders have now practically disappeared from American college life, and the cause of their disappearance, in the opinion of such men as Professor Adams of Wisconsin and Dean Briggs of Harvard, has been the rise of athletics, which rise is due for the most part...
...Yale Field. The latter have become a source of great expense, as extensive repairs are necessary every year. Toward the expense of constructing a stadium, the profits from athletics for the last few years can be used, and an additional loan floated, the latter to be paid for by gate receipts from the new stadium...
...above cut of the gate and fence presented to the University by the classes of 1887 and 1888 was made from a wash print from the office of McKim, Mead and White of New York, the designing architects...
...Athletic Committee. Managers of teams should procure these tickets at the Athletic Office and see that all members of their teams are supplied with them, as no person will be admitted to the field without a ticket. Entrance for ticket holders will be by the Marshall Newell Gate...