Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1913 — SOCCERS GET LARGE CROWDS [ARTICLE]

SOCCERS GET LARGE CROWDS

Attendance at International Game Between Teams From England and Scotland Was 127,307.

Although soccer football attracts many more thousands than baseball the gates are not as large as the returns for the world’s series or big football matches, because the price of admission is not as much in England and Scotland as here. The record attendance for a soccer game was the international between England and Scotland at Hampden park, Glasgow, on Match 23, 1912. The attendance was 127,507, and the gate receipts, including the money from the stands and enclosures, amounted to 6,997 pounds 15 shillings (English money) or less than $35,000. The record attendance in England was 120,028 when Aston Villa and Sunderland played the cup final at the Crystal palace, London, the present year. The record game at a football game in the United Kingdom was at this match between Ashton Villa and Sunderland, when the receipts amounted to 9,406 pounds 9 shillings, or less than $47,000. The attendance at the first of this year’s world’s series games between the Giants and Athletics at the Polo grounds, New York, was 36,291, and the gate receipts $75,255. /