Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the Harvard Athletic Department, as they consider the recent proposal to invite Centre back to the Stadium, should find great interest in this figure. They no doubt remember that ticket sales last season fell to 71,000 for five games--not too much more than Centre drew here in one game. The University of Massachusetts and Bucknell, as the two non-Ivy League teams on the 1955 schedule, together attracted only 29,000 spectators. As the opening attraction for next fall, Tufts is not likely to fill the Stadium either...
...Staley Starch Products Co. of Decatur, Ill. decided to give up their team, Halas, who was the coach, bought the franchise and moved to Chicago. Now Halas was a triple threat: owner, coach and player all at once. Times were so tough he also doubled as trainer, ticket-seller and publicity man. Not until he signed the great Red Grange in 1925, was Halas able to get off the financial hook...
Toohy said that under a "gentleman's agreement" with the city, there is no discrimination against student drivers. "We ticket the students, and the city police ticket everyone else," he explained. "This, however, does not prevent city police from ticketing the students if they don't comply with parking regulations," Toohy admitted...
...Centre team, which spends its halftime rest in prayer, last week had been recommended as the opponent which could most help the H.A.A.'s meagre ticket sales. In its only two games with the varsity in 1920-21, it drew 95,000 fans, 20,000 more than all five of the 1955 visiting teams combined...
...like nothing better than playing Harvard in 1957," said Brisco Inman, Centre's Athletic Director. He agreed with members of the Crimson's 1921 team that Centre would make a fine non-Ivy League "breather" for the varsity, and that the game would boost the H.A.A.'s sagging home ticket sales...