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Just The Ticket

You couldn't get into the game without a ticket. The guy at the gate would usually tear your ticket in half as you walked in, and after the game you threw the ticket stub away. Unless, of course, you were so totally nuts over watching your heroes that you cherished every scrap of paper that mentioned them or bore a likeness of their mascot.

Which today makes old tickets an interesting pursuit.

Some are quite colorful, some fairly rare, their value depending on the historic significance of the event, as well as the age and condition of the ticket. Collectors differentiate between stubs, full tickets, and printers' proofs, so you'd do well to educate yourself before investing too heavily. The Rose Bowl, The World Series, Kentucky Derby, Indy 500, and Championship Boxing are among some of the more popular.

Notre Dame @ Cal (September 18, 1965). Ara Parseghian's Fighting Irish shellacked The Bears 48-0 in Berkeley.

The formal dedication of Chicago's Soldier Field.

The Harvard-Yale rivalry is serious business. Fortunately neither school has ever needed television ratings to fuel its contempt for the other.

Notre Dame is probably loved and hated more than any other school in the country. Even people from Indiana hate the Irish from South Bend.

Michigan generates about the same affection in Illinois.

Stanford hates USC. And vice versa.

Army used to be a real powerhouse. Everybody hated them because everybody lost to them. Now almost everybody beats them. Except Pitt, who now hates them more than ever.

Stanford hates UCLA almost as much as it hates Cal and USC.

UCLA used to have to share the Coliseum with USC and the Los Angeles Rams. Now they make their students drive to Pasadena.

The East Coast press had little regard for West Coast football before the Rose Bowl was invented. But the festivities in Pasadena on New Year's Day became increasingly difficult to ignore. Easterners marveled at the January sunshine while West Coast teams began stealing their thunder.

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