After admitting the preferences granted to the clubs, Lunden said that he would not resume the practice the following season.

The third problem confronting the distribution of football tickets during the 1953 season seems to have affected the largest number of undergraduates, and prompted many to propose various plans to correct the situation during the middle of the season. The inefficient system used during the 1953 season required students to sometimes wait in lines for hours in order to obtain tickets, a problem which the 1954 resolution remedied—several letters to The Crimson in the fall of 1954 commented on the ease of purchasing tickets.

The general change to the system, which required students to drop off their application for tickets along with the money to the HAA nearly two weeks before game day—so that the tickets could be distributed equally—eliminated a lot of the waiting time. The proposals for this general change in the system were suggested as early as Oct. 8, 1953, when Dr. Martin H. Brownstein ’56 wrote a letter to The Crimson outlining a general plan.

Later on during the year, plans were drafted by both the Undergraduate Athletic Council and the Student Council to fix the ticketing problem, and were submitted to the Athletic Committee to create a situation that would improve the handling of tickets. After listening to the suggestions, the Committee came up with the envelope plan, and the controversy of the 1953 season seems to have now been mostly forgotten.

—Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu.