Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-26


The Harvard and Yale foot ball game
yesterday left about $4,000 to be di-
yided between the treasures of the
athletic associations of the two uni
yensities, after paying such extra ex-
penses as the printing of tickets and
the construction of the special seats
used only for the game.
1t is a matter OF interest what be-
comes of such am enormous sum as the
big games net Harvard and Yale each
year. So far as Harvard is concerned
the answer is easy. After years of un-
dergraduate control of each branch Of
athletics, separately and independent
ly, so that while the eleven had money
to spare and waxed extravagant as it
became prosperous, the crew. for ex-
ample, was drag on the college, sup
ported solely by subscriptions and
never free from debt, in 1892 the Uni
versity stepped in and systematized the
MANAGEMENT of athletics at Harvard.
To-day the system has grown into the
Hrfection of a business machine as
perfect in its way as a bank or great
insurance company.
The proceeds OF the Harvard-Yale
game always constitute the largest
amount received by Harvard from a
single game during the year.
The entire supervision and control OF
all athletic exercises within and with
out the precincts Of Harvard Uniyer-
sity are in charge of the Committee
on Regulation of Athletic Sports. The
committee, commonly known as the
Athletic Committee, consists of three
members of the University's faculty,
three graduates of the college, and
three undergraduates, who appoint a
Graduate Manager of Athletics, whose
duties are to exercise a general over
sight of all the accounts of the Uni
versity, and to have charge Of all the
athletic grounds and buildings. All
money made by any of the teams is
turned over to him and all expenses
of the varsity teams are met by him.
During the year very large sum OF
money passes through his hands.
The foot ball season is now over, and
the work OF the crews will be confined
to tank and gymnasium work for sew
eral months; but athletic expenses will
go on, and the graduate managers
staff of clerks, janitons and care-takers
of grounds will continue busy, to say
nothing of the track teams and base
ball practice.
sThe same watchful care and thorough
system which characterizes the super
vision of athletic expenses and receipts
at Harvard marks the treatment of the
athletes themselves by the University
Upon entering the University each stu
dent is entitled to an examination by
the director of the gymnasium, in
w1ich his physical proportions are
measured, his strength tested, his heart
and lungs examined, and information
solicited concerning his general health
and inherited tendencies. From the
data thus procured, a special order of
appropriate exercises is made out for
each student with specifications of the
movements and apparatus which he
may best use. After working on this
prescription for three or six months,
the student is entitled to another exam
inati0n by which results of his work
are ascertained and the director en-
abled to make a further prescription.
No student is permitted to take part
in athletic contests without a special
physical examination by the director
of the gymnasium and his permission
so to do.
Thanks to the control of the athletic
committee, there is not the slightest
tinge of professionalism in athletics at
Harvard. The travelling expenses of
members of the teams are paid by the
committee, which also furnishes uni
forms, sweaters, and so forth, to the
members Of the Varsity squads. The
committee also provides special
training stable, but the student has to
pay the same amount he is in the habit
O. paying under ordinary conditions
for his board.
In former days there were "jankets"
OF all kinds, but now only players and
bona tide substitutes whose hard work.
otherwise unrecognized, entities them
tc this reward, accompany the eleven
to New HAVEN Philadelphia or West
Point, the track teams to New Haven
or Mott Haven, the nine to New Haven,
Philadelphia or Princeton, and the
crews to New Londot. Every expense
nowadays is accounted for and paid
only on formal voucher submitted for
approval and payment by the under
graduate managers of the several Or
E&nizations to the graduate manager.