Harvard-Yale Big? Ask An Alumnus

Just about every alumnus at the Harvard-Yale football game Nov. 23 will be pretty much an old fogey.

That is to say, ticket demand is so heavy for the big clash that only those alumni who graduated before 1950 are eligible for tickets.

"It's really fantastic," said Gordon Page, the athletic department ticket manager, who has hired extra help to work 'round the clock on ticket orders. "I understand it's been 20 years since alumni were turned away."

More than 70,000 people want into the game, which Harvard and Yale likely will enter unbeaten and untied for the first time since 1909. Harvard Stadium holds about 40,000.

Under the elaborate priority system set up for distributing tickets to the game, Graduate School students and alumni and the general public will be out of luck in addition to the post-1949 College alumni.