Tickets remain available
for football season
By Paul Trembacki
Sports
Editor
Perhaps the most anticipated game on the Purdue
football schedule, the Boilermakers' home opener against Notre Dame
Sept. 15, is close to being sold out.
Individual game tickets for the clash with the
Fighting Irish are all sold. However, there are still several thousand
season tickets put aside for procrastinating fans and students.
Approximately 41,000 season tickets have been sold
so far — about the same amount as last year — for games in
67,332-seat Ross-Ade Stadium. The final total for season tickets sold
last year was 43,700.
This year, for the first time, fans can purchase
their tickets via the Internet at www.purduesports.com, which has a
menu on the left with tickets, John Purdue Club information and other
services.
Tickets can also be purchased at the Purdue Athletic
Ticket Office inside the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility or via the
phone at (800) 49-SPORT or (765) 494-3194.
Season tickets for Purdue's six home games are
$72 for students, $154 for Purdue faculty or staff and $192 for the
public.
Once students purchase their tickets, they must
pick up a voucher at Gate A of Mackey Arena any time between 8:30 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m.
Those who ordered tickets before the early-bird
deadline of May 15 should have already received a voucher.
Students wishing to sit together must turn in their
vouchers with their friends' vouchers in one bunch, but only one person
needs to return the vouchers to the ticket office.
Starting Sept. 4, seniors can pick up their tickets.
Juniors and graduate students can begin claiming their tickets Sept.
5. Sophomores must wait until Sept. 6 and freshmen must wait until Sept.
7. However, pick-up dates for each group of students will be for the
date of the lowest-classed member of the group. For example, a group
of juniors with a freshman in the group would have to wait for the freshman
date.
In the years before Coach Joe Tiller took over
the team in 1997, the average amount of season tickets sold was approximately
24,000.
"Since he's come here, we've been doing quite well,"
said ticket manager George Ade. "Every year we seem to inch up higher
and higher."
For students who are fans of more than just football,
there are packages of tickets that include admission to other sports.
Students can buy a Platinum card, which includes tickets to all home
Purdue sporting events, for $178 or they can purchase a Gold Rush card,
which includes admission to all home sporting events other than men's
basketball, for $90.
A new rule, effective May 2, states that when entering
a Purdue University athletic event with a student ticket, the student
must present his/her Purdue student identification card.
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