Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-12-30
FOOTBALL EXPENSES.
How 1t Costs a Fortune TO Keep
Great Team.
rAV1sH OUTLAWS BY BIG COLLEGES


Ea1her and Breadwinner of the Ath-
1etic Family Il Most Expensive of
All sports--Games Bring In Thou
Eleven Comes High.
Few people have any idea Of the
enormous expense entailed in putting
a college football eleven on the field
ind maintaining it, says the New York
World. Those who base their esti-
mates on seeing the immense crowds Of
$4,000 and more pouring into the great
flelds 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 1t costs
10 go to the best of the theaters.
Considering that players give their
services, 1t would seem reasonable
theory that after all expenses are paid
there should still be an enormous prof
Il. It might be but for the surprising
outlay. Football does yield a profit at
ell 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 lets
baseball work for itself.
All the children of the backbone of
college sport are expensive and eat a
barge portion of father footballs In
come, especially his Neptunic daugh-
ters the Misses Crew, but the old
man himself Is the most extravagant
Inc outlay has begun, and the next
few weeks will see money lavished on
the greatest of college games In a 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 1t cost $4,000 to
pay the running expenses, such as ho-
tsl bills railroad fare, training table
and football equipment, and when to
CHS Ia added the salaries of the coaches
and cost Of improvements to the ath-
sstic plant 1t is probable that the grid.
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Roosevelt receives for his years sal.
AIRY. And Yale Is only one of a dozen
big colleges where money is poured out
IKE water. No team can have a win
ner without this outlay The three big
winners last year were Yale, Pennsyl.
wanna 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
gridiron stars For this he will get
5000 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-S7,
600. This win go to Bill Reid, captain
OF the crimson team that beat Yale
Considering he will only work three
months, 1t is pay at the rate of sos, DOC
81 year-more than any professor In the
college or even its president gets.
n Harvard and Pennsylvania alike
nave been under extraordinary ex
penses during the last two years for
me establishment of their athletic
neads. The stadium at Cambridge and
me structures at Franklin field. Phila
oeiphia, are concededly the finest OF
heir kind In existence, and each cost
N 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
rare for the season cost $3.50: hotels
and meals $500; merchandise and
sporting goods, $3,735; shoes and re.
pairs SL060; training table, 1881;
printing and stationery. s6S5; stenog,
raphy, Vpewriting and clerical serv-
ICES. Sl025; carriages, $3.50; coaSl's
expenses, $o40; freight express and
carriage, $45; press clippings, s25; rub.
oers. 1878; doctors and medicines
4oo; referees. timekeepers, etc, 1885
lADor and material at field. $3.50
trophies. $120, and legal advice. 1865
total Of s25,556
u Is more than likely that the cur
rent season will see a bic increase II
me above amounts. Princeton and
harvard are especially likely TO plung,
IN Tor big sums. These colleges ar,
anxious to make up for their defeat a.
me hands and feet Of Yale and ar,
prepared TO spend money right and
I'll In order to make succasa nosethla