Football Crowds Shorn of Horns

The traditional silence at home football games, broken for a time by a rash of three-foot-long red plastic horns, has been restored by law and now it'll be so quiet that you can hear one of John McCluskey's passes drop.

The Harvard Athletic Association has requested the Harvard Student Agencies, who peddle the horns, to halt their sale. Moreover, the HAA intends to ban the noisemakers from the Stadium.

"We got an awful lot of letters and calls complaining about them," said Adolph W. Samborski, director of athletics.

"They're not going to be sold and we're going to make every effort to keep kids from bringing them into the Stadium," he added.

During the Tufts game, a slightly inebriated fan reportedly turned on a boy who had been blowing a horn into his ear and clubbed him with his flask.

The Athletic Association also received a petition from Eliot House at Radcliffe to stop the sale of horns.

"It's the perfect thing for kids whose parents go to the game, but who aren't interested in the game themselves," said one girl. "They ought to give them crossword puzzles or something."