Cornell at Harvard Tickets on Sale

Harvard ticket office. Only standing room tickets are left.

In honor of the annual ritual of purchasing Harvard tickets, here's a Harvard Crimson article from 2003 discussing some of the ways their ticket office has tried to prevent Cornell fans from attending.

This year, tickets to the Jan. 9th game against Cornell will be sold in a Pick-Four package that will include games against Princeton, Rensselaer and Massachusetts. While the ticket office claims it is not an attempt to bar Cornell’s fans from the game, it might still reduce the amount of red in the stands clashing with crimson.

And [with my clarifications]:

“We have schools [Harvard] that won’t answer the phone from certain area codes [607] when they know our students are calling,” said Cornell coach Mike Schafer. “Our fans will do what they need to do to get tickets.”

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