The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-11


All Sports-Games Bring In Thou
sands In Receipts, but Victorious
Eleven Comes High.
Few people have any idea Of the
enormous expense entailed in putting
college football eleven on the field
and maintaining it, says the New York
World. Those who base their esti-
mates on seeing the immense crowds Of
10000 and more pouring into the great
fields to see the big games imagine the
season yields huge profit. When
Yale plays Princeton or Harvard, the
crimson meets Pennsylvania, and Mich
igan struggles with Chicago, most Of
the spectators probably wonder what
becomes of the immense financial re-
turns, for, as a rule, a price as high Is
charged for football seats as it costs
to go to the best Of the theaters.
Considering that players give their
theory that after all expenses are paid
there should still be an enormous prof
it, 1t might be but for the surprising
outlay. Football does yield profit at
all the big colleges, but nothing like
| what would be imagined. 1t is the
money maker Of the athletic family,
but costs the most to keep. 1t sup
ports itself, rowing hockey, lacrosse.
swimming and indoor athletics and let's
baseball work for itself.
All the children of the backbone Of
college sport are expensive and eat a
| large portion of father footballs in
come, especially his Neptunic daugh-
tiers the Misses Crew, but the old
man himself is the most eXtravagant.
| The outlay has begun, and the next
few weeks will see money lavished on
the greatest of college games in man.
ner to stagger the credulity Of those
| who have not examined into the figures
! and do not realize what the sport costs
annually.
At Yale last year it cost $4,000 to
pay the running expenses, such as no.
| tel bills, railroad fare, training table
and football equipment, and when to
this is added the salaries Of the coaches
and cost of improvements to the ath-
! letic plant it is probable that the grid
iron bill was as much as President
! Roosevelt receives for his years sal
cry. 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 adj
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 we'll as the
: gridiron stars. For this he will get
/ $1,000 a year, and for signing the con.
! tracts that took him from Yale to Penn
he was made present Of 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 coach-$7..
600. This will go to Bill Reid, captain
of the crimson team that beat Yale.
Considering he will only work three
months, it is pay at the rate of $2S,OOO
a year-more than any professor in the
college or even it's president gets.
Harvard and Pennsylvania alike
have been under extraordinary eX-
penses during the last two years for
the establishment Of their athletic
fields. The stadium at Cambridge and
the structures at Franklin field, Phila-
delphia, are concededly the finest OF
their kind in existence, and each cost
in the neighborhood Of half 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 and
sporting goods, 1918; shoes and re-
pairs, $1,O65; training table, $1,S31;
printing and stationery, $685.; stenog-
raphy, typewriting and clerical serv-
ices, S1,925; carriages, $3.50; coach's
expenses, $94O; freight, express ana
carriage, S45; press clippings, $50; rub
! bers, $575; doctors and medicines
$3.50: referees, timekeepers, ETC., S4oo'
labor and material at field, S3,oooi
trophies, $3.50, and legal advice, $3.50,
a total Of S25,556.
It is more than likely that the cur
rent season will see big Increase I'm
the above amounts. Princeton and
Harvard are especially likely to plunge
in for big sums. These colleges are
anxious to make up for their defeat at
the hands and feet OF Yale and are
prepared to spend money right ana
left in order to make success possible.
The sums mentioned above are those
spent by the larger colleges. In pro-
norton the smaller ones are equally
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