Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small bedsitting room (for a man, his wife and two children), with kitchen and toilet facilities shared with the next-door neighbor. The average worker's wage buys him an austerity diet of bread, fish and potatoes (fresh meat is a luxury), and such occasional relaxations as a ticket to a soccer match or a jugful of cheap vodka...
...scored its final point on an after-touchdown pass to the student manager) by outdriving the heavier Yale line, bottling the Yale backfield to win 13 to 0. Michigan State won its way to the Rose Bowl after beating Marquette 21 to 15. U.C.L.A. won the other Rose Bowl ticket by beating Southern California 13 to 0. Back East, undefeated University of Maryland, closer than ever to the top U.S. rating, breezed through Alabama...
Selling complimentary tickets is, of course, undeniably wrong; it is a violation of Massachusetts and Federal law. But the deans have never stressed these considerations in past seasons. Now, when disclosures show that some players have yielded to temptation, University Hall is suddenly aroused and thunders of ineligibility and severed connections. Many of the offenders learned for the first time that ticket brokerage was more than slightly shady; most of them will not repeat their violation...
Planning constructively for next year, the Athletics Committee has two main problems to meet. They must devise a system for keeping complimentary seats off the ticket market. Less urgent, they must work out a method for systematic handling of student tickets, avoiding both favoritism and needless crowding...
...Athletics Committee has major problems, but they are problems with ready solutions. By studying this year's ticket abuses to improve the distribution system rather than to fume indignantly, the Committee can benefit from this season's unfortunate disclosures...