The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-29
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Each SeaSOn-- Statistics of
Yale Harvard Game.

Yale and Harvard puts at least $1,000 $50
In circulation. The two university foot
ball associations alone spend about $4,000
in order to enable their elevens to clash
with any degree of mutual confidence. Add
to that amount the cost which the public
incurs in order to witness the contest be
tween the great intercollegiate rivals-an
indeIerminate, but obviously very large,
'sum--and even the Individual who is not
afflicted with views on the importance of
the Harvard-Yale football match must be
impressed.
The end of all efforts at Soldiers and
Yale Fields is this event. Hence any pres
entatlon OF the financial aspect of the
November day which neglects to include
merton of the expenses of the prelnnl-
nary season loses sight of the TACT that
the preliminary season is rightly named.
Last year Harvard spent $25,0OO. Yale
went this figure several points better by
spending $35, 600. In the previous year,
when the game was played on the stadium
gridiron, Harvard spent S29.0OO.
The greatest items in the expenses of
the two universities for the annual Har-
card-Yale game are those incurred by the
administration" The administration is
the department which looks after the pro-
motion of football.
Yale's administration last year cost
$7,S00. This money went for salaries,
labor, maintenance, renewals and repairs.
che sun paid Tor the eoachs' services waS
of course, part Of the outgo. Another
heavy item is the salary of the trainer and
the wages for his assistants. Last year
at Yale 81 ,003.37 were expended on rub
bers.' The sum for doctors may also be
given. 1t was $743.2S.
Going away from home always means
heavy expenses for the two associations.
Harvard made two journeys last year,
one to West Point and one to Yale. Yale
Went to West Point and Princeton. Har-
wards expenses for her two journeys eX-
ceeded $2,O00. on hotels, meals and rail
roads Yale spent the considerable sum OF
So, 462. %.
If the game be scheduled for New Haven.
the Harvard players leave Cambridge two
or three days prior to the eventful day.
Last year Harvard's Judgment bill eX-
ceeded the $1,000 figure.
The cost OF baseballs to a varsity nine
during n season is always one of the eX-
penditures to be reekoned with. But the
cost of footballs TO Yale and Harvard is
an even greater matter of accounting. y
football costs 81. In the course of the
oight weeks or more of the autumn game
more than 100 footballs are used at each
university. In connection with the $40t
which Yale expended last year on pig
skins Is recorded in the annual report this
Interesting little item:
I sale of footballs. So"
Precisely how much the football season
at Harvard costs in outlay for trophies it
Is impossible to say, because any state
ment Of the expense is not permitted to
become public property. But Yale aC-
knowledges very frankly that at the end
of the victorious season of 1906 the sum OF
$1,000 was spent on trophies.
Under Stationery printing and simi-
lar headings each university usually man
ages to get Ri OF 81, 900.
Training Table, stands, Etc.
To get ready for the big contest re-
qulres a heavy outlay for the training
table. 1t is the custom at both Harvard
ana yale TO accept from the men who eat
pay at their regular boarding places. At
Harvard the training table costs about
1900 a week. Multiply that sum by six.
and the cost for the entire season is OBJ
,tained. Add the cost of caring for the
squad during the half-week in New Haven
III the o game be scheduled there-and
the total is brought up to $4,000.
Yale reports that her 1906 expenses for
the training table aud for other matters
Connected with the food and Judgment of
the varsity men were SO, 1852. 10. The cost
or taking care of the squad on the West
Point and Princeton journeys was not in
cluded In this tabulatlon. Under the head
ing OF Hotels and Meals the expense
incurred at such times was recorded.
Another large element in the cost of
getting ready for the game Is the erection
or stands. yale Is compelled every year
to do much repairing Of her grounds, for
the equipment there is of wood.
The stadium will hold about 5000 per-
sons. But the attendance on the coming
eventful November day will probably eX-
coed 40,00e-with several thousand more
1t5tA " ~ III NdhidSO
points. Hence it has been necessary, in
forner years. to erect stands at the OPEN
ing of the horseshoe. The price which the
contractors assess the Football Athletic
Association for each extra seat IS sixty
cents. So for 1900 seats 50, 400 would be
asked. Boooths and ropes mus also be
provided, at a cost of about $50. Tickets
cost $500, police $500 and officials 5000.
OF the expenses of the spectators at
this event in Eastern varsity sport there
can be no exact estimate. The seats
along the sides of the field cost 81 each;
locations in the end stands cost $3.50 each.
The total receipts of the game are about
G0,0e0. But, of course. there are innuin-
cradle extras. To go from Cambridge to
New Haven means, at the least, an out
lay of $40. Many hundreds of persons go
from Boston to Cambridge in carriages.
The prices range up to S25. At New Haven
the jehus have an invariable tax on the
wealthy, One may engage a carriage from
the New Haven station to Yale Field for
the modest sum Of $25.
Draw from All Sections.
OF the 10000 patrons of the game when
1t takes place in the stadium, perhaps ~
600 use the Boston elevated route. Inc
sum spent on car fares totals in the neigh
borhood of 5000. But, Of course, the eX-
pense of journeying from the city proper
either of New Haven or Boston, to the
playing ground Is Incidental in the gem
eral outlay. There are the expenses OF
travel from distant points to Cambridge or
new ftdNtAl. II Is a. 'lEhho INNS w
men and women to come half-way across
the continent TO see the spectacle, and 1t is
not at all uncommon for relatives or
friends of the players and for alumni to
come from the coast, or even from a for
eign country. Such expenses go far up
into the thousands.
Many o fresh suit Of clothes. many a
fur overcoat, many a flask OF whisky.
nIany a pair Of ploves-there Is no end 10
the articles which men and women get
Tor the game.
. The sum spent on the gowns by the
women reaches n tremendous amount. IL
big football game has more splendidlY-
gowned women than any other event IN
The country. Hats, coats. hosiery, foot.
wear. furs, gloves, buttons and flowers
undoubtedly cost well up Into the six fig
Tres. Thousands are spent on flowers
clone, and some sections Of the stands at
Cambridge or New Haven are suggestive
n hanging gardens.
On food and lodging more thousands are
spent, The big hotels Of Boston are
orowded on the day Of a Harvard-Yale
came. And many Of the hotel guests are
willing to spend anywhere from IS to $75
for a first-elass seat.
The Lauter Five. holding the champion
ship Of the Protective Association will go
to Brooklyn Friday night where 1t will
meet the LonRhlin Lyceum team. heavy
weight CHAMPIONS OF Greater New York.
This game Will without doubt prove a Bit
ter struggle. as the Boughlins are anxious
to annex a victory from the only team
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