As soon as the doors to the H.A.A. ticket office closed at 5 p.m. yesterday, the first freshman arrived to establish a line of prospective ticket buyer that by 11 p.m. numbered 14.

Most of the group were holding down their places, or their beds, for an hour at a time, to be exchanged at the end of the hour with other members of various ticket buying syndicates. The largest number of tickets ordered with any one syndicate was 60, and the salesman was out taking more orders, hoping to raise the total to over 100.

No one expected tickets for seats better than behind the goal posts, but one man justified his stand by pointing out that there are varying degrees of good seats behind the goal posts.

Yale game ticket sales slumped yesterday as sophomores took only one and a half sections in comparison with the three sections grabbed by seniors and two by juniors. '53 got most of its seats in section 28 on the 5 yard line, where alumni usually sit.

Freshmen will be sold center colonnade locations when the ticket office doors open today, and graduates will probably also be seated behind the posts on the goal line.

Although senior and junior demand was unusually heavy, Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. director, said that total sales for this Yale game are "no higher than usual."