Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale and Princeton may have been at swords' points last Saturday in the Bowl, but during the pat week they have been brothers in misfortune. The small turnout for the game-about 32,000-has sent up in smoke not only most of the athletic associations profits but even a measure of the prestige their game has always had. Harvard extends its deepest sympathy-rather absent minded sympathy because here the situation is considerably different. With 50,000 tickets already sold, and the usual activities around the Square promising a sell-out by Saturday, the H.A.A. doesn't have...
...Yale News ascribes the poor showing of Saturday to the Price of the tickets: $3.85 for every seat in the Bowl. Calling for an H-Y-P conference to revise the price scale, the News is rooting for a double rate-$3.50 for seats between the goal lines, and $2.20 for the end zones, on the ground that "the days when crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should...
Both the News and the Prince are making the mistake of generalizing on the basis of one single game. The most logical explanation for the meager 32,000 at the Bowl last Saturday is simply the one-sidedness of the predictions of the game. It is ironical that after this playing down in the papers the game turned out to be a genuine Big Three thriller. The football public from now on may believe the tradition that a Big Three game is always exciting enough for anybody's $3.85. At least, the Harvard-Yale fans seem to believe...
...eleven is in tip-top physical condition and will be ready for Harvard Saturday. Even Captain Bill Stack, who was bumped in the Princeton game, is set to travel 60 minutes against the Crimson. Coach Pond's men have been in-and-outers all year long, but they are convinced that Saturday will find them at their best...
...resort to passing as a last-ditch measure. The Harlow aerial shelters have not received a real test since the Penn game and their strength is difficult to estimate. Cautious Yale did not fill the air with passes against Princeton, but these may be their only dangerous offensive gestures Saturday...