Evening star., 1909-07-18

for the privilege OF living at the training
table, the cost being the same as the
student paid before being taken to the
training table. 1t cost Yale, in addition
10 these receipts. S6.44T.74 TO maintain the
training table and pay hotel bills. AS the
training table lasts only about nine weeks
and there are no more than an average
Of ffty men at the table during the sea
son IL will be seen that ii cost about Sl5
ner week per man for board. That the
Yale athletes live well is undoubted. The
sum of more than $4,000 for foot balls,
foot ball clothing, shoes, etc, in two
months suggests that it might pay for
universities to establish factories of their
own for the manufacture of athletic
goods.
Rowing's Big Deficits.
No university has yet found means
of making a profit from rowing or even
beginning TO pay expenses. This is due
TO the difficulty of collecting receipts
from spectators. Inasmuch as boat races
are held on the rivers and require courses
of from two to four miles in length grand
stands are out of the question. There
fore the only availa bic method of charS-
ing admission is by means of observation
trains. though these are run more for
the profit of the railroads than the uni
versity athletic associations. Most of the
university crews depend upon subScrip-
tions for the expense of their crews. Be
tween subscriptions and observation trains
Yale. Cornell and Harvard each year Sc
cure "a tidy sum. At Pennsylvania sub
scriptions are forbidden, so that the
Quaker expenses are practically all deficit.
The following table shows the rowing
account at four universities, there being
no available statistics for the cost of
rowing at Princeton
ya gpivers ssssp: a5 Sspe4ss E!peases rsGats
Harvard. 3.S99.l1 L. 235. 7S s 1856 SO
Pennsylvania 7I95 1884 SO lO3l960
Cornell. go. 44S5.s2 9,74245 4Ss2 80
Totals. 49,. 2sssso sa1414ss sas.71e.el
Here again Yale expenditures are the
heaviest, it costing the Blue almost twice
as much for the maintenance of her
There are two items alone which bring
Yales rowing expenses UP to more than
$4,000. Although the crew training table
is operated as are those for other sports,
the table at New Haven costs S2.49S.A
On top Of this the association has to
bear all the expenses of the training
able at New London, which for about
four weeks amounts to S., 633. .05. On top
of this it costs Yale $5,S2467 for the
salaries of coaches and others connected
with the crew. 1t Is easily seen from
this why Yale's crews are so expensive.
In this connection it is bit odd that
Cornell with the best crews in the coun-
try, conducts rowing at the least ex-
pense and at less than half the cost
at Yale. Cornell also succeeds in rails
ing the most money for the maintenance
of her crews.
Track Sports Improving.
For the number Of men who are able
to profit from 1t. track athletics is the
least expensive. At only one university
Yale again-does it cost more than $10.-
600 for the maintenance of the track
team. The following table gives the
financial statement for track sports at
the big five:
University. Receipts, Expenses Loss.
Yale, Yale: sl'4l4.do sll.58i.s So $40 iso @ 4e ae
Pennsylvania 5,s14.22 922s.33s s.4os il
Cornell. Teiion a.ss5.o7 s.5ss.4s 5,59i Sc Sc
Totals. 90. $15,6so.es sss,sl561 sos, 1872 q
1t is creditable to track athletics that
these expenses include not only the
spring season, but the expenses Of the
cross country team in the fall as we'll.
1t should also be explained that there is
considerable activity in track athletics
during the winter, it being the only
sport that is maintained throughout the
entire athletic year.
Pennsylvania has the most receipts
from track sports. this being due to the
great popularity of the Quaker relay
meet which very year draws crowd Of
1900 or more.
Among the minor sports basket ball is
the only one that is in any way self
supporting. At Pennsylvania this sport
has turned over a handsome profit every
year for the last three. 1t is also self
supporting at Columbia and comes very
near it at Yale, Cornell and Princeton.
All the remainder of a dozen or more
sports which each member of the big
five maintains are run at loss and de-
pend for their existence upon the ap-
preparations made possible by the profits