Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guessed very wrong. A fabulous season ticket sale gobbled up 4000 of the seats (those in sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, section 5 being saved for the few undergraduate applicants). Saturday night Lunden totaled up his ticket requests and noted with surprise and horror that he already had 6000 applications for the 5000 seats. In desperation he phoned New York and got three more sections' worth of ducats, the not-so-good tickets in sections 1, 7, and 8. They disappeared yesterday...
...cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless 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...
...Game, thre is no such, thing as being fashionably late to the game. Both rooting sections are filled half an hour before the game begins, and a cheering battle is staged. One year, the Stanford section unrolled a huge paper finger, about 15 rows long, and made obscene motions with it in the direction of the Cal section...
...rooting section itself is not the haphazard affair of an Ivy League school. There are two oblong sections, one for roughs, the other for coeds. All the roughs wear white shirts and rooters' caps. These caps are red on one side and white on the other. Certain designated people wear the red side of their hats up; everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything...
Once the game begins, the noise really starts. The head cheer leader has a P.A. system to give instructions to the rooters. Every time the team comes out of the huddle, the rooting section omits a mighty rear. On a close play, everyone stamps his feet, creating thunder before the rear. Cheers are frequent, and one tradition soaked cheer, the venerable "Axe Yell," is reserved all year long for a crucial point in the Big Game. When it finally comes, the whole stands fall into a hush as 7000 rooters boom out the tones of this famous chant. The inspired...