New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-21
FOOTBALL FIGURES AT CORNELL.
EXPENSES OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE
PLAYERS

PLAYERS.
ithaca. N Y. JAM 20 (speciaD-It has been def
nitely decided that Hugh Jennings will again coach
the baseball team this year. He will arrive in
Ithaca about February l. and will remain with the
team until after the Easter trip to the South.
The report of the graduate treasurer R. H. FIRE.
man. submitted at the meeting Of the Athletic
Council. may be summed up follows: Percy Field
fund receipts s2095 O5; expenses S965 IS; balance
$29 TO- Navy fund receipts, S. 7s6 49, expenses. So
S52 Al: balance s44 o.; boat building fund, receipts
$40 81; expenses 1907 81; balance, 1858 80. Foot
ball fund receipts S0S97 Ga; expenses S2 3s5 49, bills
unpaid, estimated. $1,000 balance, 1892 10. Base
ball fund receipts S Ga expenses, S2 1896 l5 bills
unpaid. s629 80: deficit. Sill 49, Track athletic fund
receipts s. 25 O6; expenses, BIS 3D. deficit, $50 IT.
The deficits in baseball and track athletics have
been paid out of the football money. The council
approved the proposition to secure graduate man.
ager Of athletics.
Some interesting football statistics have been pre-
pared this week by Cornell officials from the
suit Of last seasons gridron work Professor Huff
cutt of the School of Law, has gone carefully into
the educational phase OF the football question and
the college work of the men actively engaged in it.
games In which the team was engaged 1t cost $l3,-
900 TO keep the team in the field and comfortable
receipts were chiefly from the game with Pennsyi-
e esa tb nnPia a. on Thanksslvng pay tne
ar Ithaca and with Chicago at Chicago. Some of
early part Of the season actually cost money. The
practice was necessary. however and the policy of
playing such games will be continued next year.
TRANSFORMATION was OF q, course the heaviest exo
OF SzoO IL next IN line; Cornell had two coaches
the greater part Of the year in Houghton and
Lewis. of Harvard, and the expenses of many grad
yates who gave the team assistance, increased the
coaching account. 1t 81 469 10 bring visiting
city The training table was furnished by Ithaca's
most expensive hotel this season. and the expense
was sl8A. football supplies, including uniforms
ss ets are cost nearly as much Other mpor
pairing. Sis. and streetcar fares $12T The man
sgenent was careful IN all expenditures, and the
educational statistics of CornelPs football players
who have held that College 9e efbe to de6se
mental TO scholarship; Long trips were taken the
work particularly severe; yet the average in scho-
ssrship Is greater during the term the men played
1ootoaH than IN the other terms. The percentage
OF nonor men Is about as large as it is for the rest
Eighteen men received varsity "C' for their work
IN football OF these twelve received an average of
cent and for the %ho T an Rea at per
terms when the men did not play football. During
almost every day. eleven received an average Of
from 81 TO "a per cent and seven average of
OF the football term. In general the variations in
as to lead to the conciuson that fooban SO snght
or nothing to do with class standing
GYMNASIUM COMPULSORY AT BROWN
Providence r. l., Jan. 20 (SpeciaD-The winter
term at Brown is marked by one novel feature
compulsory gymnasium work three hours week
Most OF the higher institutions encourage such ex-
irs but er in only two others is t absolutely
ano use OF clubs, dumbbells, singlestcks and fois
There Is therefore plenty Of variety and COM.
parativey few md the hour irksome Several in
athletic teams chance to appear w sas iI bs h aIS
ends With public exhibition in Infantry Hail,
gether Tournaments in chess checkers hockey
Sa ibo"ng are now in progress. and baseball