20,000 Stadium Seats Out; Causes New Ticket Rules

Returning undergraduates and wandering alumni will face a shrunken stadium this fall when they view the football players in action for the first time. Approximately 20,000 seats have disappeared with the passing of the steel stands over the summer, and the structure has now returned to its original and classic horseshoe shape. Now the capacity of the oldest college stadium in America is 37,114, compared to last year's 56,495 seats.

And with the diminished capacity have come a few new regulations governing the sales and distribution of tickets to undergraduates, Not only because of the higher demand caused by the smaller capacity, but also in an effort to speed up the lines at the ticket window, the following changes have been made:

It is no longer necessary for a student to file a ticket application with his bursar's card--now all he needs at the ticket window is the requisite cash and or coupons), and his signed bursar's card which will be punched when he gets the tickets for that particular game. However, no one student can act as an agent for more than himself and three other students--that is, only eight tickets in all at one time. This should eliminate the man who stood ahead of you in the line last year and then pulled out 30 sets of applications, and after countless minutes and missed classes walked away with 60 ticket in a block for himself and his friends.

The order of priority will be the same as last year--Seniors on the Monday nearly two weeks before the game, juniors on Tuesday, sophomores Wednesday, freshmen Thursday, and graduate students Friday. The limit of tickets (i.e., two in the allotted section, and others in loss desirable parts) is the same as last year except for the Yale game when only two tickets may be sold to any one person.

There are general admission tickets for all games this year, in the stadium bowl end. For the Springfield, Washington, and Davidson games the prices are a dollar apiece.

With the removal of the stands the field was moved about ten yards closer to the bowl end of the field.

The stadium, first big-time football edifice ever built, was completed in 1904, and was known as "The Classic Gridiron" or more familiarly "The Allston Horseshoe."

Wooden stands served to increase the seating capacity, but were condemned in 1927. The University rejected filling in the open part of the Stadium with concrete because it would cost too much--$380,000--and because it could not be built to duplicate the horseshoe.