The sun., 1907-12-22
YALE FOOTBALL DOES COST!
$4,000 SPENT ON THE ELEVEN
~ SIX WEEKS TRES FAIL.


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IN wear. or a. 10 Expended IN Helplng
Needy students Through Colloge-RBut
tho Profits This Year Are @AO. .DON.
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 71.-Yale statistIcians
who have been figuring just how much
IL Gust TO beat Princeton and Harvard
at football this year have discovered that
Yale paid out more for her football de-
partment in six weeks than she spends
on President Hadley. Secretary Stokes.
Treasurer McClung and six Of the leading
Yale professors in year
As a setofY football this season turned
into the Yale treasury about twice as much
money az the entire freshman class paid
for tuition for the fall term. The gross
receipts. IL is estimated. will be close TO
$4,000. with about half that. or $4,000.
representing the cost of maintenance OF
the team.
Maintaining her football department this
year cost Yale third more than was ex-
pended by the university last year in helping
229 needy students through the academic
department. 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 Corporation could
support ten new professors at the regular
yearly salary OF 81. $50 each. paid TO men
OF family. and have enough left TO hire an
unmarried member Of the faculty.
IL is estimated that che cost OF main
tanning the grand stands this year at Yale
will exceed $4,000. which would pay the
salaries Of five new members OF the Yale
faculty. or pay the tuition for one year OF
about in, ha,
department. The travelling expenses Of the
team this year. which il is estimated will
reach about $4,000. would give sixty five
undergraduates one years free tuition.
On the other side of the ledger. however.
1t is found that the gross receipts from foot
ball this year will surpass the entire amount
Of money paid for tuition this term by all
the undergraduates of the academic depart
ment, some ZOO in number.
While during the last fifteen years. since
football became the most popular sport OF
the universities, the receipts have doubled.
the expenses incidental to the maintenance
Of the team at Yale have almost trebled.
In the season Of 1891 -g2 when Lee McClunR.
tho present Yale treasurer. was a football
star. the gross receipts from this branch of
sports we're S3i 1888. while the expenditures
were $751;
The Harvard game Of that year, which
was played AZ Springfield, turned in to the
Yale treasury S8,sl2, while the Yale officials
last year received s35 ,0J4 as their share "
the gate receipts from the Yale-Hsrvard
game. In those days the Princeton game
was the biE money getter for YR!e, the
Yale-Princeton game Of 1891 which was
played on the Manhattan Athletic Club
grounds on Thanksgiving Day, netting
Yaie sIf,i2j. The receipts from the Prince
ton game Of last year almost doubled those
Of the game fifteen years before, reaching
sss IGI
In tho report nf the year Of ls9l-gc the
work AZ Yale Field was covered by the
modest sum uf $50, while a conservative
estimate this year puts the figures beyond
the slSuO1 mark
In the matter Of athletic supplies and
shoes the expenses have jumped nearly
400 per cent. in the last fifteen years. The
bill for shoes last year was 81 Dos, with an
additional expenditure Of S3,4l3 for ner-
Chandise and sporting goods. In the re-
port for the 1891 team the athetic supplies
cost sl,l5s, without any special reference
to shoe bills.
In the trophy fund a s!ashing cut has
been made, for whereas McClung and his
hand Of players paid ont 81 $40 for trophies
and flags, the members of last years team
souvenirs.
The expenses Of administration have
greatly increased in recent years. owing
10 the cost of sending out tickets for the
two championship games. as we'll as the
distribution Of the regular season tickets.
This necessitated an outlay last year Of
over &7,150.