Survey Shows That Nearly 1000 People Slip Into Football Games for Nothing

The scene is any good Harvard game, a real big one of nation wide interest. Thirty or forty thousand people have streamed across Larz Anderson Bridge, have kept their own tickets, thank you, and are esconced safely in their seats somewhere between the score board and the loud speakers. And of this number, or any number, about 850 to 1000 people have been admitted free of charge.

First of all there are the ushers, about 350 strong. They are in the stadium by 12.30 o'clock ready for the awfully early comers. Backing them are 150 ticket takers on the scene even before the ushora.

The next largest category is the press box. This will held 260 men if the sides are made to bulge a little. Two hundred and fifty men, and men only, because press tickets bear the cryptic message "No Ladies Allowed." Although the official little everyone in the boy in "Reporter" they cannot be classified quite to uniformly.

For instance there are reporters, chart men, statisticians, press announcers, telegraphers, teletype men, and general hangers on. Each Boston paper has a pair of working reporters from the regular staff. But usually outsiders have to be called in to bolster the staff when a half a dozen different games are going on in the vicinity. For this reason students or others are called in the work out the charts of the games, keep the records, and generally help out if the reporters happen to miss a play.

New York papers, the AP, UP, INS, and any other papers use the same system of recruiting to bolster their staffs and help out in general way.

Up above the press box is another thirty men, composed of a phalanx of photographers, a couple of spotters for Harvard, a manager from the visiting team who does their sporting for them, and a couple of announcers.

Finally, there's the band, something over one hundred, officials, seven counting the two guys who carry the ten-yard markers and the fellow who sticks the dart in the ground, about 60 former Human who played on the football team who are granted sideline seats, a bunch of kids, to sell programs of whom there are about 36, the coaches, and finally 37 Harvard players.

In other words, if all these people can get in free and the H.A.A. still makes money, they're pretty good