The deadline for purchasing discount tickets to the Harvard-Yale football game came and went last Friday, leaving many uninformed students without their $10 seats.

The athletic department put house intramural directors in charge of distributing the envelopes that contain ticket purchasing information. But several students said yesterday that they couldn't find the envelopes in their houses.

"I couldn't find them anywhere," said Gregory J. Davis '94-'96, who lives in Mather House. "The house didn't have envelopes."

Lawrence T. Harynh '97, a Lowell House resident, said that although he saw a small sign advertising the game, his house didn't give him any information about buying tickets.

"There were no envelopes in the dining hall," Huynh said.

Discount seats, offered to both undergraduates and graduate students, were $10. Regular seats are $25.

Jeremy B. Liebowitz '95, who coordinated envelope distribution at Cabot House, said house intramural directors were given little instruction.

"Mostly our job is to coordinate intramurals," Liebowitz said. "I'm not sure why we have the responsibility and not the ticket office."

In fact, the athletic department gives responsibility for Yale tickets to the director of intramural athletics. The intramural director, in turn, entrusted house intramural coordinators with the tickets.

Efforts to publicize Friday's deadline seemed to get lost along the way.

"There's not all that much publicity," Liebowitz said.

"I don't think it was very well advertised in Cabot," added Dana W. Lansky '95, house committee co-chair.

Ed Carey, ticket manager for the Harvard Athletic Office, said purchases for the Yale game have increased steadily over the past few years. More than 4,500 coupons were collected prior to the Friday deadline, Carey said.

About 30,800 seats are available for the game, 10,000 of which will be distributed by Yale. The remainder will be sold according to a hierarchy of Harvard affiliates, with preference given residents and fellows, the Board of Overseers and the Standing Faculty Committee on Athletics.

"We just want to fill the stadium," Carey said.