Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Floor seats for the games, at $1.50, will be put on sale tomorrow at the office of the Association, and gallery seats at 75 cents each, at Leavitt and Peirce's. In order to prevent the tickets from getting into the hands of speculators, not more than two seats will be sold to one person at either sale...
...adverse score must not be taken to show that Yale was in general inferior to Princeton. The defense, though not evenly balanced in strength on both sides of the line, was sufficient to prevent substantial gains by Princeton in rushing. The offense showed great speed, strength and team-work, and was at times invincible. Hogan, Bloomer, Shevlin and Kinney were used to advance the ball almost as frequently as the backs, and proved that Yale's offensive game is versatile as well as powerful. With the fault of fumbling eradicated, the Yale eleven is likely to prove not far inferior...
...addition to the obviously grave error of giving outside parties tickets before all Harvard applications had been filled, the writers can see the possibility of an evil still worse. What is to prevent speculators buying an unlimited number of season tickets at the beginning of the year, using fictitious names to attain that end, then renting the tickets for the preliminary games and finally applying for two Yale game seats by virtue of their privilege as season ticket holders? The Yale game tickets secured, the men can charge any price for them and there results speculation which the management cannot...
...effect of the Pennsylvania interpretation? Apparently a player could participate in a whole season of football at one institution, and then transfer himself to another institution and be eligible at that institution for the whole of the next season, the very practice which the rule was formed to prevent. "At a consultation held November 3 between the Harvard captain, head coach, and chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, it was decided that the captain, would be justified in protesting the three cases in point if the names of the players appeared on the Pennsylvania list. It was also agreed that...
...season. In that particular the improvement was great and genuine. But in defensive play there was little reliability, little consistent strength. Occasionally a play was stopped with a loss: but usually if a gain was very much needed by Pennsylvania the Harvard team did not evidence strength enough to prevent it. Harvard once lost the ball on downs in midfield and again was unable in three tries to carry the ball across Pennsylvania's five-yard line...