Football ticket sales increase
Season ticket sales for Oregon’s 2002 football campaign have reached a school record 38,400, leaving approximately 500 season tickets available for purchase by the general public in the expanded Autzen Stadium.
The mark surpasses the school’s previous season-ticket record of 30,365 from a year ago, with the Ducks forced to curtail ticket sales before July 1 each of the past two seasons.
Included among this year’s sales has been the purchase of 35,200 reserved seats, compared with the sale of 26,600 reserved season tickets all of last year. The remainder of this year’s 3,000 tickets sold have been general admission and family plan packages.
The supply of general admission and family plan tickets has since been exhausted, leaving only reserved seat tickets remaining on a season basis for the cost of $253 for Oregon’s eight-game schedule.
The Ducks have averaged crowds in excess of the previous stadium capacity of 41,698 each of the past four seasons, led by last year’s school record of 45,926 spectators per game. The current Autzen Stadium expansion is expected to push the facility’s capacity to nearly 54,000.
Additional single-game tickets are currently available to Oregon football season-ticket holders only, with reserved seats for the game against the Huskies costing $50 and each of the remaining seven games selling for $29. All remaining home single-game tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning July 1.

— from staff and wire reports