Morning Line Snags Cornell Ticket Selling

Mindful of the run on tickets for the Columbia game, seniors yesterday converged early on the HAA ticket counter to claim their priority seats for the October 8 Cornell game. It was the first business done according to the HAA's new ticket sale system.

Despite the fact that the entire counter was thrown open to meet the rush, many seniors had to wait as long as half an hour in lines that snaked to the hall outside the counter.

At day's end, however, the ticket sale was roughly the same as for most home games last year with teams other than Yale. All seats in section 33 at midfield were sold down to the track. Several rows in this sector are reserved for the band and the football squad itself.

1240 Seats Sold Yesterday

Section 34, with the exception of three bottom rows, was also disposed of. Frank O. Lunden, HAA ticket director, estimated last night that his office had sold some 1240 seats by closing time.

Columbia game tickets, "better than those that will be on sale in New York," according to Lunden, will be available until tomorrow night. Thus far the HAA has sold approximately 7000 tickets for the New York contest, a sale which Lunden says is "very good for an away game."

The flurry yesterday morning died down within an hour but another crowd queued up at the ticket windows around 1 p.m.

This morning at 9 a.m., under the new ticket sales system, juniors can start picking up their seats in spots working down from row C in section 34. The third year men are expected to consume an area extending about to the eight yard line.

About two out of every three of today's buyers purchased their tickets in pairs rather than singly, Lunden said.

Lazy Seniors Lose Priority

Seniors who didn't take advantage of their priority yesterday will have to take the residue left tomorrow after the other three classes have picked the choice and perhaps not so choice views.

Hence, today's late buyers who might have passed up low seats in the senior section because they thought they could cop high seats in the junior area will find themselves doomed to the end zone.

"It wouldn't be fair to the boys in the next class," Lunden said. "We can't give a student a choice of section. It's up to him to get to the counter early in the morning, when seats in his own section are off sale."