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Predicting a stadium sellout is not so simple a process as H.A.A. critics suppose, William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, asserted yesterday in answer to the storm of protests that have flooded his office since Tuesday's announcement that undergraduates and graduates alike would be limited to two tickets per application...
...since 1931, Bingham pointed out, has a Harvard-Yale contest overflowed stadium capacity. In those days, applications were never accepted for more than a pair of ducats, and applicants were required to agree to use one of the admissions for themselves...
Football fans are a fickle lot, Bingham observed. Had Harlow's eleven lost to Brown last Saturday, as well they might, he predicted that getting Yale tickets would now be no problem...
Thinking the Dartmouth game would be a sellout, the H.A.A. turned down alumni applications for more than two seats. When Rutgers turned in its upset victory at the Charles River stadium. Bingham received so many irate cancellations that on the Wednesday before the game his office returned 1,500 seats to Hanover, or 10 percent of capacity...
Next year, Bingham disclosed, all applications will state plainly that only two seats will be guaranteed. In addition, H.A.A. publicity through ticket office posters and employees will make students aware, as this year they evidently were not that submitting a request for tickets meant no assurance that that request would be filled...