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Show Yale-Harvard Football Contest Will Draw an Immense Crowd New Haven, Conn., Nov. 13. Tickets Tick-ets to the Yale-Harvard football game here next Saturday are worth nearly near-ly their weight in radium. The demand de-mand Is twice as great as In' any previous pre-vious year, according to the management, manage-ment, and nearly 20.000 alumni and under-graduates" applications have already al-ready been thrown out because of In abilltv to nil the orders. Offers of from $50 to $100 apiuce ore made for the pasteboards by speculators. spec-ulators. Two tickets Is the most al-Ioted al-Ioted to any Yalo or Harvard man and a large proportion of the seekers have, been cut off with a single admission. ad-mission. Not a singlo outsider has secured tickets. This unprecedented dmand has renewed re-newed the demand here for the building build-ing of a Yale stadium. The present stands seat only 33.000 and the clamor clam-or for tickets to the game of next Saturday would exhaust a seatiug capacity ca-pacity of 260,000. Yale has n- Idea of erecting a stadium that will supply such a demand, but estimates for a structure for CO.oOu peruons will accommodate ac-commodate the students, alumni and a few guests. The Yale athletic committee has charge of the building plans for th proposed stadlnm. They sent Evard Thompson, the graduate manager, to Kurope some time ago to look over the stadium which, was recently built In Chester, England. The committee has an option on a site adjoining the present Yale field The Btructure will cost about $300,000. |