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Show 4- COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL IS BIG ATTRACTION FOR SPORT FANS 4 BY WAITER CAMP-Special CAMP-Special Correspondent of The Stand -ara-Exaxniner. (Copyright, 1922. by The Standard-Hxamlner. Standard-Hxamlner. ) NEW YORK. Nov. 4 No one 'knows where the enthusiasm of the j public for football will stop but it Is I easy to see why It started. Tho (American lntcreolleglate game, is without with-out doubt the most remarkable form of sport that has ever been played. This Is duo first to Its perfect simplicity sim-plicity of purpose combined with Its infinite variations of technique and execution. The spectator who has never seen I tho game played before can readily understand the purposo of the play ers on the gridiron before him lie Sea a goal at each end and two sets of eleven men striving with might and main to reach their objectives In spite of the opponents. So he ho selects se-lects his favorite and endeavors in his excitement to help that favorite by tho unconscious pushing of his m-i-hbor. Tho student of the game, however, has always a delight In the study of the tactics pursued by the two teams as well as the skill ot the- Individual players. The gamo has in jsplto of many vicissitudes developed symmetrically symmet-rically so that there is an excellent balance of attack and defense and this tends itself to added Interest. The game haa spread the country over. Back in the lato seventies the first gam- between Vale and Princeton Prince-ton was played at the St George's Cricket grounds. Elyslan Fields Hoboken, The spectators numbered 267 only, Most of these- broke through a hole In the fence. There was not money enough taken In to pay for the suppers of the players! CAPACITY CROWDS. Today at a big game there were Probably 7 3,000 people who paid $3.00 apleee for scats. 1 spend anywhere any-where from $10.00 to $100.00 In getting get-ting to and from th'- gam. And lh y i enjoying themselves! On almost any Saturday there are almost capacity-crowds capacity-crowds In hundreds of fields! Right in the midst of the football season It Is well to stop and thinJv what this game now means to tho country There are thousands of teams playing from Maine to California Cali-fornia and from tho Canadian bord-r to tho gulf. In fact, the country Is striped with gridirons in every community com-munity But most impressive of all is tne growth of these structures holding the spectators. When the Harvard stadium- the first of Its kind to Do erected was in contemplation, owing to a gift of ono hundred thousand dollars from one of tho Harvard classos, the chairman of the Harvard athletic commltteo came to tho writer and said that he was very hesitant about putting one hundred thousand dollars Into a structure to seat 20.000 people for a football game. SOME BOWL HERE. Compare this with the dedication of the Ohio State stadium costing over a dozen times the figure that tho Harvard chairman hesitated about, and seating over 72.000 thousand, or with th.- Yale bowl that has in the extreme seated over 80,000- The Harvard stadium was built In 1903 and 1904. About the same time a half oval was constructed at Washington Wash-ington university. St Louis, seating about ln.uOO. Syracuse built her double-ended stadium In 1907 with a seating capacity at that time of 20,-000 20,-000 In 1910 a stadium was erected at Tacoma seating some 20,000. In ,.'1- the University of Chicago put! up their structure to accommodate about 30.000, and tho following year Lehigh put up a similar structure to hold 15.000. This same year. 1913 to 1914, the Yale bowl was constructed, originally planned to hold 60.000. In 1914 Ml higan put up a stadium to hoid 4 2.000 and In the same year the Palmer Pal-mer stadium was erected at Princeton, Prince-ton, seating 42 000 In 1913 the College of tho City of New York built a half amphitheatre to scat some 7000. and in tho same) year a municipal! stadium was erected erect-ed out at San Diego, California, seat- lng some 28,000 Cornell also has her half amphitheatre construction ' which was originally designed to seat J about 10,000. Pennsylvania has Just completed her new stadium and theo are by no means all. STILL INADEQU ATE The Impreaslvi fact, however, is that when the big gam.- Is played not one of these stadiums or bowls Is anywhere any-where neur larg.i enough to accommodate accom-modate all the Spectators who wish to attend. And in the case of several sev-eral of the older universities then- is no public sale of seats at all, the graduates taking more than the seating seat-ing capacity, and many being turned dovvn. An Interesting feature of this has been the trouble that It has cost in the way of III fo'pllng, and there are many authorities) who wish they had twice as many st ats so that all their graduates and h lends could be accommodated. ac-commodated. This Is especially true of tho Army-Navy contest. |