Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-27
THE GRIDIRON
WHAT IT COST YALE.
New Haven College Spends $40, 900
 on Football, x


 New Haven, Dec 27.-Yale statisti- cans who have been figuring just how much it cost to beat Princeton and Harvard at football this year have discovered that Yale paid out more for her football department in six weeks than she spends on President Hadley, Secretary Stokes, Treasurer McClung and six of the leading Yale profess sOrs in year.
 AS a set-off, football this season turned into the Yale treasury about twice as much money as the entire freshman class paid for tuition for the fall term. The gross receipts, it is estimated, will be close to $SO,0OO, with about half that, or $40,0O0, rep resenting the cost of maintenance of the team.
 Maintaining her football depart ment this year cost Yale d third more than was expended by the uni versity last year in helping 229 needy students through the academic depart ment. That third would cover the amount granted in scholarships in the Sheffield scientific school.
 With the money expended for this branch of athletics the Yale corporal ton could support 10 new professors at the regular yearly salary of s. 750 each, paid to men of family, and have enough left to hire an unmar- ried member of the faculty.
 that tho aOct Of maintaining the grandstands this year at Yale will exceed $15,0W which would pay the salaries of five new members of the Yale faculty, or pay the tuition for one year of about 100 needy students in the academic de pertinent. The travelling expenses of the team this year, it is estimated, will reach about $10,OO0, would give @ undergraduates one years free tuition.
 On the other side of the ledger however. it is found that the gross receipts from football this year will surpass the entire amount of money paid for tuition this term by all the undergraduates of the academic de partment, some 1900 in number. While during the last h years since football became the most pOpu lar sport of the universities, the re- | ceipts have doubled, the expenses in cidental to the maintenance of tht | team at Yale have almost trebled. IT the season of 1S91-92. when Lee Me ClunS, the present Yale treasurer was football star, the gross receipt! from this branch of sports were S31, 333, while the expenditures were SIS, 79O.
 The Harvard game of that year which was played at Springfield, turn ed in to the Yale treasury $9.S12 while the Yale officials last year re ! ceived $35,954 as their share of th' gate receipts from the Yale-HarvarC game. In those days ahe Princeton game was the big money-getter fo Yale, the Yale-Princeton game O 1891, which was played on the Man haitian Athletic club grounds ol Thanksgiving day. netting Yale S14, 425. The receipts from the Prince ton game of last year almost double, those of the game 15 years before reaching S2S, S,161.
 In the report of the year 1S9l-9 the work at Yale field was covere by the modest sum of $50. while conservative estimate this year put the figures beyond the 5000 mark.
 In the matter of athletic supplie and shoes, the expenses have iumpe nearly 400 per cent in the last 1 years. The bill for shoes last yea was S1.205, with an additional eS penditure of S3.413 for merchandis and sporting goods. In the report fo the 1891 team. the athletic suppliG cost S1,15S. without any special ref ence to shoe bills.
 In the trophy fund q slashing GU has been made. for whereas McClun and his band of players paid out S2 529 for trophies and flags, the men bers of last years team limited then selves to S1.OO0 for these souvenirs
 The expenses of administratio have greatly increased in recent year owing to the cost of sending oI tickets for the two championshl games. as well as the distribution ( the regular season tickets. Thi necessitated an outlay last year ( over ST,IJ6.