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Show HUGE CROWDS TO SEE IRISH PLAY Notre Dame Expected , to Play Before 350,000. ' That Notre Dame's famous Fightin' Irish football team will play before 350,000 people during the fall of l!2S is the theory of J. Arthur Haley, business busi-ness manager of athletics at the university, uni-versity, following two weeks of intensive in-tensive work acknowledging applications applica-tions for tickets. Haley and his staff of assistants began be-gan to receive applications for the 1028 tickets on August 1, and the indications in-dications are that every game in which the Irish appear will draw a capacity crowd. In addition to three home games, the Notre Dame squad will journey to enemy stadiums for six contests. Special interest is being shown In the Navy game, winch will be played at Soldier field. Chicago, on October 13. Last year Notre Dame played Southern Jalifornia at Soldier field on the last Saturday in November and 117.000 people witnessed the game. Throe thousand additional seats have been installed at the stadium and Haley says that 120.000 seats will be sold. The Notre Dame athletic office has jeen besieged with requests for tickets to this game, and it is likely that the Navy-Irish tilt will he the most colorful of the I02S season. Memories of the 1D2G season, when Carnegie Tech unexpectedly defeated the Irish team, which was then headed head-ed for another national title, have served to step up the interest in the Scotch-Irish game, which will be played on Cartier field, November 17. It is the last home game of the season. sea-son. Haley predicrs that this game will be sold out before November 1. Messages from l.os Angeles slate that the Southern Calif'orniu-Notre Dame game will be the biggest drawing draw-ing card the Pacific coast has ever had. The Trojans and their retinue are still stinging under their 7-6 defeat de-feat of lust fall and will pack the stadium sta-dium to see the old rivals fight it out again. |
