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TODAY'S GATHERING WILL PROBABLY NUMBER 53,000

POLICE WARN THAT LIGHTLESS CARS WILL BE TAGGED

Early in November, 1903, a crowd of 25,000 people watched a Dartmouth football team defeat Harvard 11-0 in the first game ever played in the Harvard stadium. This afternoon, 20 years later, 53,000 people will jam the stadium to see the two colleges fight out the anniversary of that game.

In preparation for this huge crowd, the Harvard Athletic Association is resorting to the big game regulations generally used only for the larger games late in the season.

Every effort is being made to reduce congestion to a minimum. Motor traffic will not be permitted to cross the Anderson Bridge after 1 o'clock. After that time, cars must enter by way of Brighton Street, to make passage for the crowd easier in Harvard Square and on Boylston Street.

Subway trains will carry passengers through Harvard Square to the Stadium station before the game, to help diminish further the crowding on the street.

As no tickets remain for public sale, there will be no clogging of the entrance gates by long waiting lines as was the case last Saturday. In view of this fact there has been a shift in the usual arrangements for entrance gates. Spectators holding tickets for sections 23 to 27 will pass through gate 1. Gate 2 will be for holders of passes and badges. Gate 3 will be for those holding tickets for seats in the wooden stands, sections 38 to 51. Gate 4 will admit to sections 1 to 10 on the east side of the stadium, and gate 5 is for sections 11 to 37, the bowl and the Harvard side.

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Holders of auto passes will be admitted through gates 10, 11, and 13. To those who park their cars in the public streets during the game, Superintendent John L. Gilman of the Metropolitan Park police gives notice that all cars left unlighted after sundown will be tagged.

Another announcement concerning the game comes from the Harvard Athletic Association in regard to score cards. Although large numbers of so called "official" score cards are sold on the streets before every game, the H. A. A. authorities declare that the only official and accurate score cards are those sold within Soldiers Field. Those sold on the streets are unofficial and subject to error.

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