Athletic Dept. Turns Down 5000 Yale Ticket Requests

The Harvard-Yale game is now completely sold out and 5000 alumni ticket requests have been returned unfilled, according to Frank O. Lunden, Athletic Department ticket manager.

The last of the tickets went in three hours yesterday morning as 500 standing-room-only passes were sold, at $6 each. Standees will be on the roof at the closed end of the Stadium.

A crowd of 39,625 will see the game, including 1,956 spectators in the temporary end zone stands set up last week.

Because the demand exceeded the seating capacity of the Stadium, as usual, Lunden was forced to notify alumni by mail that applications received after the Oct. 19 deadline could not be filled. Graduate school alumni, low on the ticket priority list, will not have their requests filled even if they were made before that date.

College alumni who requested more than the limit of two tickets will be sent only two, along with a partial refund.

A total of 3635 undergraduates--79 per cent of the College--has applied for 6385 tickets, 3635 of them complimentary. The largest response in applications was in the senior class, 98 per cent of which asked for tickets.

In addition to undergraduates, among the complimentary ticket holders for the game are the President and Fellows, friends and family of varsity, J.V., and freshman football teams, Masters, Senior Tutors, Harvard professors, HAA officials, and 255 members of the press. All others pay, Lunden said.

Yale Sells All Tickets

Forty per cent of the Stadium tickets go to Yale fans, and all reportedly have been sold.

Thousands of football fans will see The Game on television as ABC's Eastern game of the week. Several alumni in the Mid-West who will be unable to be in Cambridge for the contest are planning the next best thing. The Harvard Clubs of Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago-Milwaukee have leased special cables for Saturday to see the telecast, which will be on regular television in only 35 cities throughout New England and the Middle Atlantic states.

Other Harvard clubs--of Seattle, Southern Arizona, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Michigan, Phoenix, and Dallas--will hear a specially-routed broadcast of WNAC's radio coverage of The Game. As in the past, Yale clubs in these areas will join with the Harvard clubs to follow The Game together.