The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-06

All the children Of the backbone or
college sport are expensive and eat a
large portion Of father footballs In
come. especially his Neptune daugh.
ters the Misses Crew, but the old
man himself is the most extrayagant
The outlay has begun, and the next
few weeks will see money layished on
the greatest OF college games In man
ner TO stagger the credullty Of those
who have not examined into the figures
and do not realize what the sport costs
annually.
At Yale last year il cost S27 900 to
pay the running expenses, such as ho-
Tel bills, railroad fare, training table
and football equipment, and when to
this Is added the salaries Of the coaches
and cost OF improvements 20 the ath-
ietic plant 1t is probable that the grid
iron bill was as much as President
Roosevelt receives for his years sal
ery. And Yale is only one OF dozen
big colleges where money is poured out
like water. No team can have win
ner without this outlay. The three big
winners last year were Yale, Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan.
This year, in addition TO having the
usual high priced coaching system.
with Byron Dickson in charge, the
/ Quakers have the services Of the high
est priced trainer in the business, Mike
Murphy. formerly OF Yale who Is ad-
mittedly the greatest developer OF ath-
letic talent the United States has ever
seen. Murphy is to look after the base
ball and track team as well as the
gridiTon stars. For this he will get
$1,000 year, and for signing the con-
tracts that took him from Yale TO Penn
he was made present of a house.
Yost of Michigan certainly does not
make less than $1,000 yearly out OF
football. Harvard has been equally
lavish In the matter Of outlay, and this
year, In the hope Of having her football
fortunes retrieved, is paying the big
gest salary ever given TO a coach-$7.- =
600 This will go to Bill Reid, captain
OF the crimson team that beat Yale.
Considering he will only work three
months, IL Is pay ~ the rate OF $4,000
a year-more than any professor ia the
college or even its president gets.
Harvard aud Pennsylvania alike
have been under extraordinary ex-
penses during the last two years for
the establishment Of their athletic
fields. The stadium az Cambridge aud
the structures at Franklin field, Phila-
delphia, are concededly the finest OF
their kind in existence, and each cost
in the nelghbOrhOod OF half a million
dollars.
In examining into the things for
which money Is expended the list fur
nished by Yale last year is fairly
typical. This shows that railroad
fare for the season cost 1880; hotels
and meals, $500; merchandise aud
sporting goods, S3.735; shoes and re
pairs. Sl,OG5; training table, 1881;
printing and stationery, $685.; stenog-
raphy. typewriting and clerical sery-
ices, S1025; carriages, ST9O; coach's
expenses, 500; freight, express and
carriage, $40; press clippings. s25; rub
bers. S575; doctors and medicines,
$3.50; referees. timekeepers, etc, Sls5;
labor and material at field. $3.50;
trophies. sl20. and legal advice. S305,
a total Of S25,556
II is more than likely that the cur
rent season win see a big increase IN
the above amounts Princeton and
Harvard are especially likely 10 plunge
In for big sums. These colleges are
anxious 90 make up for their defeat at
the hands and feet OF Yale and are
prepared 10 spend money right ard
left Ia order to make success possible
The sums mentioned above are those
speat BY the larger colleges. In pro
portion the Smaller ones are equally
lavish II took an offer OF $1,000 a
year 20 take Coach Glenn Warner from
| Carlisle 10 Ithaca. aud Coaches New
i ton and Bull. who look after the foot
ball fortunes Of Lafayette and Letaeh
get In the nelshborao0d 0f 5000 each
/ Chicago Is very liberal 10 Coach stagg
but there seems 20 be no check 70
"frenzled football for as long as the
pigsku knights DO battle the cost Of
war must be borne.
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