The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-11-22


tions alone spend about 100000 In or
der to enable their elevens to clash
with any degree Of mutual confidence
says the Boston Herald. Add to that
amount the cost which the public in
ours in order to witness the contest
between the great intercollegiate riv
als--an indeterminate, but obviously
very large, sum-and even the indi
Sidual who is not afflicted with views
on the importance of the Harvard
Yale football match must be i'm
pressed.
The end of all efforts at Soldiers
and Yale fields Is this event. Hence
any presentation OF the financial as
pect of the November day which neg
lects to include mention OF the ex
penses of the preliminary season loses
sight of the fact that the preliminary
season is rightly named.
Last year Harvard spent $4,000
Yale went this figure several points
better by spending $4,000 In the
previous year, when the game was
played on the stadium gridiron, Har
ward spent $4,000.
The greatest items in the expenses
| of the two universities for the annual
| Harvard.Yale game are those incurred
by the administration. The admin
istration" is the department which
looks after the promotion of football
| Yale's administration last year cost
$500. This money went for salaries
labor, maintenance, renewals and re-
pairs. The sum paid for the coach 6
services was, of course, part of the
outgo At Cambridge Mr.. Reid was
recompensed. AtrYale Mr.. Camp was
recompensed. Mr.. Crane. the present
head coach of the Harvard squad, re-
celves no financial reward.
Another heavy item is the salary OF
the trainer and the wages for his as
sistants. At Yale this outlay Is tabu
lated partly under the expenses OF the
Athletic association and partly under
the salaries OF the administration. The
price falls within the limits Of tht
four figures. Last year at Yale 81,
003.37 was expended on 'rubbers.
The sum for doctors may also be
given. II was $143.2S.
Going away from home always
means heavy expenses for the two as
sociations. Harvard made two jour
neys last year, one to West Point ant
one to Yale. Yale went to West Poin
and Princeton. Harvards expenses foI
her two journeys exceeded $4,000. Or
hotels, meals and railroads Yale spen
the considerable sum Of SG,462,29. Th'
difference between systems OF tabula
ton at the rival universities explains
in part the large difference betweel
these two sums. In Yale's items wer
included the coaches travelling eN
penses and their lodgment at tn
/, New Haven house-plus also larg
i. number of allied expenditures.
/ If the game be scheduled for Ne,
Haven, the Harvard players leay
, Cambridge two or three days prior t
the eventful day. or course plenty q
J men are taken. Usually, also, tn
second eleven is given free journe
to New Haven. Varsity headquarters
are established at the Pequot club, an
=. the expense of the stay Is borne entire
ly by the Football Athletic associ;
tiop.
: Last year Harvard's lodgment bl
exceeded the $1,000 figure. In tn
previous year the Harvard men wer
down to Marblehead for a rest \
money was spared to give the player
every necessary comfort. The bi
ran we'll up into the three figures. Yal
usually comes to Boston day or tw
prior to the game, brings large squa
and pays bill amounting to the for
figures.
The cost of baseball to 'varsit
niue during Il season is always on
OF the expenditures to be reckone
i with. But the cost of footballs
Yale and Harvard Is an even create
matter of accounting, A football cos
S4.N In the course of the eight weel
4 or more of the autumn game MOI
/, than 100 footballs are used at eac
university. In connection with Il
\ $500 which Yale expended last year @
pigskins Is recorded in the annual +
port this interesting little item:
N''To sale of footballs, &c."
Precisely how much the football Sc
! son at Harvard costs in outlay 1,
trophies it Is impossible TO say, b
Lcause any statement of the expense
II not permitted to become public pro
N erty. But Yale acknowledges ven
! frankly that at the end of the victor
ous season OF 1906 the sum OF 81 OF
was spent on trophies,
Under stationery printing an
similar headings each university usua
~ manages to get rid of $1,000. NJ
" Camp has at New Haven u force
workers whose duty 1t is to attend
clerical labor, There are innumerab
letters to write, even In these peac
ful days OF reform football, and co
siderable tabulation OF written matt
ia made, 1t is no secret nowadays In
Yale keeps a weli'equlpped library
III football information.