Yale Game Ticket Sales Hit New Low for Classic

Selling tickets to a Yale game has never been so hard for the Harvard Athletic Association since as far back as Director William J. Bingham '16 can remember.

The H.A.A. has sent back to Connecticut 4,000 of the 28,000 ducats in its allotment, Bingham disclosed yesterday. Enough tickets, however, the best of those unsold, were retained to cover all last minute requests, he said.

Bingham blames two things for the record slump: the team's one and seven season and the ascendancy of television. But mostly he blames television. He said he has received many letters from alumni saying "You've put me at the end of the field for the last time; now I've got a TV set."

Down at New Haven, however, things have been going differently, according to William E. Perkins, business manager of the Yale Athletic Association, Ticket sales so far are about the same as they usually are for the annual plassic, Perkins estimated yesterday.

Sellout Still Possible

He thinks Yale may sell all its 42,000 tickets and the 4,000 it got back from the H.A.A. too. But Yale's ticket selling has been about ten per cent below the normal level for this whole season, Perkins said.

The actual handling of the Yale game tickets under the new system, Bingham said, has been more efficient than in recent years.

The New Haven Railroad has added something new this year to Yale game ticket-selling by buying a batch of tickets in the Yale section. The railroad will try to sell the tickets to its patrons, who will be able to buy admission and transportation to the game all at once.