Brown and White Vol. 135 no. 20

              The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 20
Friday, November 16, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
50-Game members enjoy Rivalry Week lunch
By ANDREW ISAACSON
B&W Staff
Every year, the Lehigh Athletics
Department hosts the 50-Game
member luncheon the week of
the historic Rivalry football game
between Lehigh and Lafayette.
Although senior football players
and coaches are present, alum-ni
who have attended at least 50
Rivalry games — some of whom
attended 50 consecutive games and
are at least 90 years old — make
the gathering memorable.
“It’s unique because of the tra-dition
of The Rivalry, and you get
to see people that you would only
see once a year,” Norman Goldberg,
’63, said. “You get to mingle with
the coaches and sit with one of the
senior players.”
As of this year, there are 121
50-Game members — 39 of whom
attended last year’s luncheon.
Goldberg will be attending his
57th Le-Laf football game and his
seventh luncheon this year. The
former school broadcaster has
missed only one game in the last
57 years. He said there was a lot
of excitement leading up to the
Saturday face-off.
“It’s in my blood after all these
years, and I look at the calendar
to see when the game is so I don’t
make any other plans,” Goldberg
said.
Bob Bevan, ’60, is part of a
five-generation Lehigh family and
will be attending his 67th rivalry
game and 17th luncheon.
“The passion that my father had
for Lehigh carried over to my broth-er
and I, along with my daugh-ters
and two grandchildren,” Bevan
said. “The rivalry with Lafayette is
at the top of my list for passion and
will be there for the rest of my life.”
Greg Strobel, the assistant ath-letic
director for Campus and
External Relations, and Dean of
Athletics, Joe Sterrit, are respon-sible
for organizing the event and
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Ticket sales for this year’s Lehigh-Lafayette rivalry game are lower than in prior
See EVENTS Page 3 years. Student tickets have not yet sold out for the Nov. 17 game.
By LUCY ZHOU
Associate News Editor
Although Lehigh-Lafayette is
college football’s most-played rival-ry,
ticket sales have decreased
significantly for this year’s 154th
Rivalry game.
Richard Haas, the assistant ath-letic
director for sales and market-ing,
said students have not been
in a hurry to buy tickets. Student
tickets have always sold out in past
years, but for some reason, Haas
said there has been less demand
for the 154th Rivalry game.
“We’ve kept prices consistent,
and the reason for that is that we
feel that students are the primary
audience for this game,” Haas said.
“It’s their four years on campus,
and we want them to make sure
they have every opportunity to
experience the game while they’re
here, and then come back of course
as alumni to attend the game as
well.”
Haas said the student price for
tickets has remained relatively
consistent for the past decade.
Goodman Stadium has about
1,000 more seats than Lafayette’s
Fisher Stadium, so when the
Rivalry game is at home, Haas said
Lehigh Athletics provides 10,000
tickets with about 3,000 reserved
for students. Away games histori-cally
have sold over 2,000 tickets to
students and about 2,500 to facul-ty,
staff and alumni. Bus passes to
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