The Washington herald., 1907-10-23
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BY FREDERIC ). HASKLN.
BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN.

BY FREDERI
Football Is the most expensive amateur
sport In the world. 1t costs as high as
S50,oG0 TO win the championship Of the
Eastern universities. During an average
year the expenses Of the Yale team, as
shown by their books. were 81, ,OO0, aside
from their salaries for coaches and play
ers. But most of these latter items are
like campaign contributions. kept in
books the public VIII never see. BIZ
Ried, the famous Yale coach. is said TO
have been paid 81 1000 for three months
work at Yale. which is at the rate of sos
600 "A year-more than any college presi-
dent IN America gets. Pennsylvania pays
something like 5000 for her head coach,
and has nine other men assisting In train
ing, who are paid from 500 10 81. 900 each
for the season. Every university and
college viii Indignantly deny that any
player is paid for his services, but those
who ought 20 know declare that many Of
the crack players are paid. and that they
get three or four thousand dollars for
their services during the season.
The following is a sample of the ex-
penses of a leading team for season,
exclusive Of coaches salaries and Ike
items; it is taken from the books Of the
Yale team for a recent season: Railroad
fare, $3.50; hotels and meals, s. 1860; sport
ing goods, 50, ,735; shoes and repairs, $1.065;
training table, Sl.SS1 printing and sta
uonery, $6S5; stenography, typewritng,
and clerical work, $l925; carriages, $3.50;
press clippings, $25; rubbers. $50. doctors
and medicines. $3.50; referees, linesmen.
&c, S4S5; labor and materials of the field,
$3.50; trophies, Sl2O; legal advice, $3.50,
other expenses. 1856.
But while college football is the most
expensive Of the amateur sports. il brings
in larger revenues for a game than base
ball or any other sport a field that
brings in $4,000 in the football world has
been frequently seen, while III baseball
the attendance has never yet reached S25,-
0J0. With an attendance of 10000 as the
record in American football, England out
classes America her attendance record
being upward Of 1000. Although the big
games yield a mint of money. there are
Yet few football teams that are able to
more than pay their own way.
Even the railroads do not sneeze at the
revenues to be derived from the big foot
ball games. During the last five years
the average receipts from the big games
have been as much TO the New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Railroad as the en-
tire passenger revenues Of the road in all
OF Its several thousand miles Of line for
an average day. AT one Of the big games
on the New Haven field this road collect
ed $4,000 in fares to and from the foot
ball field.
There have been, according to a foot
ball authority, nearly 1900 boys playing
on regular football teams In the last
ten years, and his investigations show
that only 654 of these We're injured badly
enough 20 lose time from their classes.
He finds that insurance companies within
given period paid less than half as
many claims for football as they did for
swimming and but few more than golf.
Football dates back to the twelfth cen
tury. Shakespeare knew something about
IT, and refers to it IN a way that would
lead one 20 think that il was the game Of
the poor whites of his day. 1t was i'm
- ported 70 America In 1913, Harvard taking
the lead in its Introduction. Rules were
first adopted in that year, and in 1876
Harvard persuaded Yale TO try il, having
secured the Rugby rules from the Cana
dians.
The custom Of selecting an-American
teams originated with Walter Camp. the
great Yale coach. In 1883 he selected a
group Of players, whom he regarded as
the best representatives of their respect
i've positions The idea took at once, and
now the football enthusiast that does not
take a try at picking an aI-AmeTican
team is rare bird. That these terms
would be pretty formidable was shown by
the experience in the case of the all-star
team which Camp made NJ from the list
Of players formerly on the Yale team Al
the bi-centennial of that institution, this
team met Yale's regular second team, and
smOthered them easily, although the lat
ter were in full practice, and the former
team included men who had played as far
back as 1919 and 1876 Walter Camp is
about the only coach who has ever es-
sayed 70 pick an all-Ameriean team from
the aIl-American teams. He says that in
that ever could be gotten together. But.
of course, no one knows. The experience
at the Yale bi-centennial is about the
only criterion as 10 what an all-star team
could do.
Baseball has never run in families. but
in football great players have come from
the same families. The most notable in
stance is that OF the Poes at Princeton
John P. Poe. the father OF the others,
was something Of a football player him
self, and back IN the days when the
game was not the exact science that 1t
is to-day. Poe was regarded as one Of
Princeton's most formidable men. Then
came his son, S. Johnson Poe who was
one Of the stars Of his day After him
came Edgar Allen Poe, his brother, who
changed the score of Harvard and Prince
ton from Harvard. -; PbncetoH. Il, 10
Princeton, Al: Harvard, j.. John p, jr
next came along, and added something
10 the glOries OF the Tigers. and then
Nelson. After him came Arthur one
of the greatest players in the history Of
football. He holds the unique record Of
having won the Eastern championship
for Princeton over Yale in two successive
years by his work. There is one other
instance on record where a player has
won the championship for his team once,
but Poe is the only man I'm the history
of the game who has done It twice. There
are a half dozen instances where mem
bers Of the same families have been
football stars, bat none where several
brothers have been assigned TO places
on all-American teams
Kentucky has one Of the most remark
able football teams in the world. II is
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