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REGIMENT OF OFFICIALS WILL HANDLE HUGE CROWD

H. A. A. Employs 1000 to Usher and Take Tickets--51,500 of Total of 53,000 Pay Admissions

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Almost exactly 1000 officials, ushers, ticket takers and the like will be marshalled into service to handle the huge crowd which will swarm into the Stadium this afternoon to witness the Crimson's football battle with Coach Jesse Hawley's Hanover eleven.

Plans for the game at the Harvard Athletic Association call for 700 ushers within the Stadium, 200 ticket takers at the gates of Soldiers Field, as well as 50 men to take charge of the distribution of tickets.

The total number of paid admissions for the game is approximately 51,500. Including the regiment of officials named above, the mmbers of the rival squads, and those lucky souls who have been able to get the coveted sideline passes, the crowd at the Stadium will attain its maximum capacity of 53,000.

Game Will Set Season Record

This will be the record for attendance at Harvard football games so far this season. It had been predicted that the Holy Cross game would attract a record crowd last Saturday, but when the Crimson and the Purple teams lined up that day, the entire crowd came to less than 48,000.

With every ticket for today's game disposed of, the ticket offices at the H. A. A. have been besieged by delinquent graduates who had come to Cambridge with the conviction that there would be little trouble in obtaining entrance to the game.

The long waiting list of these would be spectators grew considerably larger yesterday. As stray tickets are returned to the H. A. A. they are given out to the men on this list.

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