* * * * FOOTBALL AT NIGHT.
A number of universities announce that, in order to attract bigger " gates," football stadiums will be illuminated and matches played at night next season. Night football originated at some of the smaller universities whose grounds are remote from the larger centres of population. In the bigger cities it is never difficult to fill the football grounds to their capacity for a good match, no matter on what day or at what hour it is played. But, apparently, in the smaller centres there are fewer people of leisure, or it is more difficult for people to leave their businesses during the day for mid-week football. Night matches are designed to meet their convenience. The innova- tion has been tested already by two university teams, and has achieved its aim, for gate receipts are said to have been doubled. Night football promises to become increasingly popular, in consequence.
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