New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-13
ENGLISH COLLEGE SPORT.
EXPENDITURES FOR ATHLETICS
CAMBRIDGE.
THE FIGURES ARE ABOUT THE SAM" ~
THE GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSE '"''
THE INDIVIDUAL. ENGLISH STUDENT
GETS FAR MORE FOR HIS MONEY

c,r,r AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES But
THE INDIVIDUAL. ENGLISH
GETS FAR MORE FOR HIS MONEY
Cambridge, March 3.
recen, article in The Tribune gave roush
total of So03.3l4 % as the rece'p's i'o"' 'o'o"-
,arv subscriptions and gate-mohe! ioi Single
wear by the athletic sports OF iour lea'''s NN"'e'
oon coueses-Yale Harvard, princeton ana
PENNSYLVANIA The article has eS'''eo CURIOSITY
- 49, nor, IN learn how these American eXpeh-
a,,ures for college sports. averaging over S'"'-
ooo vear would compare with similar eNpenui-
,,,ros IN English universities. The investigation
80, nroved light undertaking. There are
,vontv.three colleges at Oxford which take an
interest in athletic sports, and twenty col
,ooos AZ Cambridge, the number Of students at
oaoh university being approximately 5000. The
chief sports are rowing, cricket football,
s,be,ics and lawn tennis. While there are uni
yersty clubs. each college acts independently
and maintains it's own associations There are
no printed accounts of receipts and expenditures
available for examination. No information can
be obtained without direct application TO college
secretaries; and the great number of organiza-
tons renders it difficult and laborious task to
compile accurate statistics of current receipts
a, least for the present to the University 81
Cambridge, | have obtained an approximate esti-
mate which does not differ materially from the
average receipts of the four American colleges
previously mentioned.
Beginning with rowing which is the most
pensive of university sports, may briefly ex-
plain that at Cambridge the money is provided
mainly by subscriptions from members Of the
colleges present or past. supplemented by special
contributions for such purposes as the construc-
ton Of a boathouse a new boat, for which
urgent appeals are occasionally made. The Uni
versity Boat Club Is supported by tax levied
upon the college clubs. The chief expenditures
are incurred for the purchase Of new boats and
the partial maintenance of the University eight
at Putney Members of the eight have met in
dividually considerable portion of the expense
of maintenance. and various economies have
been practsed The general receipts of the
Cambridge Boat Club amount TO between $1,000
and fl.1OO. and good balance is usually carried
over from one year to another Last year the
receipts Fl 600 Is. Sd. and the balance was
il57 lbs 1Od. This is the heaviest expense of the
University sports and includes the cost OF the |
great boatrace on the Thames which averages |
ccbout 1900 and also the maintenance of the Uni |
1rsity boathouse. coaching bills trial eghts. |
etc. which will range between 400 and $500
The college clubs contribute to the treasury |
OF the University Boat Club on an assessment of |
income and property Last year 1885 las o. was |
raised in this way and this year it is proposed to
obtain ISL les. I'd. from assessments The high
EST amount paid by any single club is f94 lis
Id. for Trinity. the largest college The lowest
Is - 9s i'd. for Fitzwllliam Hall. the non col
esiate club. Each college has its own boat club
and provides the money required for meeting its
own rowing expenses.
FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS
Rugby football has the largest supper, from
yate-money. but this only concerns the Univer-
'ty Club All the college clubs provide their own
grounds and defray their expenses without as
'stance from this source. The receipts of the
University Club range from 400 TO 800 an
lually. and a balance usually remains after all
expenses have been met. The club out Of its
avings has contributed $50 toward the pur-
hase Of the new football ground. The Unver-
ity Association Club also takes gate money but
he amount is much smaller than that which the
Rugby Club receives from this source. Never
heless considerable proportion Of it's revenue
S drawn from gate-money received when the
cam is playing outside of Cambridge. The Col
eye Association clubs act Independently, like
he college Rugby clubs
Athletics are maintained chiefly at the expense
II the college clubs No gate money is taken at
college meetings. and only small admission fee
s charged for university athletic sports The re-
ceipts Of the Cambridge University Athletic Club
range from 400 to 500 year This sufices to
cover all expenses. The club also receives one
hird of the gate money at inter-universty
sports. amounting to between 600 and f4O0.
This is aside for annual payments of the
ga on he att leti nd clef |
grounds at Cambridge.
The Cambridge University Cricket Club re-
elves fair support from gate-money. College t.
ricket is maintained by the members of the
arous colleges About fl 600 covers the entire
Expense Of cricket and Association football at
cambridge
'OLLEGE CLUBs-INDIvIDUAL EXPENSES
Most of the college clubs now operated on
rhat known s amalgamation lines The
MEMBERS OF the clubs pay individually from 80
killings TO guineas term. there being three
erms in the university year. The revenues OF
he amalgamated clubs are divided generally as
ollows Fifty per cent to the College Boat Club;
D per cent to the college cricket football and
4wn tennis clubs, which play on the same field;
per cent to the College Musical Society, and |
per cent 10 the college reading-room.
All the members of a college do not belong to
he amalgamation and consequently it is difficult
D generalize. An average college with eighty
will give f120 a term or $3.50 year, Of |
hitch 20 per cent is not expended upon athletics,
ut upon music and reading room.
The figures for great college like Trinity will
ave TO be quadrupled at least. and St Johns.
be second college would have between go and
O0 members Twenty colleges with an average
I 100 members will furnish about 1000 con-
ributors 10 athletics This estimate is at least
pproxlmately correct. On the assumption that
he individual subscription is 30 shilngs a term
Or athletic purposes alone. the aggregate for the
wenty colleges would be 1900 a term, or $4,000
year These certainly will be outside figures. .