The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
FOOTBALL ENTAILS
LARGE EXPENSE At
JOHNNY HARVARD
Stars Developed at a Cost
of Nearly $1,000 Each.
Coaching Staff Most
Expensive Item

Boston, November 22-Havard de-
yeloped her football stars this year at
cost of $1,000 each. Football, like
and the appearance of an eleven well
conditioned and thoroughly coached on
the field against Princeton and Yale
represented an outlay of more than
$4,000 Football championships come
high in price and to retain her title the
Crimson has employed the best
coaches obtainable.
The entire coaching staff this sea-
son costs about $4,000 and to this
must be added the heavy expense Of
equipping and training a big squad
of players, the hire of special trains
and many other items of cost 1t is
figured that each one of the 80 play
crs composing the present Harvard
squad cost the athletic association
$1,000 for his coaching and training,
and this in season that only lasts
about nine weeks
Harvard. with her big outlay of
money. isn't bit more extravagant
than other leading colleges. Yale,
Princeton. Cornell, Penn and Dart
mouth annually spend fortunes on
their teams, but the Crimson's list of
expenses, showing the costliness of the
strenuous gridiron games, is interest
Ing.
Many Come Out
At the start of the playing. season
more than 100 youngsters came out
for practice at Cambridge. Every one
had to be equipped with uniforms.
shoes and jerseys. Gradually the weak
er men We're weeded out and a. regular
squad CT about 80 established. At this
time the training table, with it's spe-
cially prepared food and private chef,
was ordered for the 80 fortunate play
ers.
The greatest item of expense, how
ever is the coaching staff Head
Coach Percy Haughton, chief engineer
of the Crimson machine, draws down
salary of $500 year, which means
ABOUT nine weeks of work
Haughton's contract, under which he
is now eIt .ployed. calls for $4,000 for
a torn CT three years. An addition
al sum of $4,000 for the same period
has been guaranteed by prominent
alumni, which brings his total remun-
Grafton 10 about $500 n season.
The celebrated coach Is on the field
about two and a half hours daily for
five days Roughly estimated his daily
income fl ON football amounts to $3.50.
Drawing the scale little finer,
Haughton receives about 2h cents ev-
cry second for teaching the Harvard
tn cir opponents on the gridiron.
Coach Haughton watches each game
from the sidelines, many times giving
orders to his charges, but this time
is not included in the foregoing COM
putations.
Approximately the entire Harvard
coaching staff costs nearly $4,000 u
year. Leo Leary, first assistant coach
who drills the ends, pockets annual
ly the tidy sum of $500 for his la :
bors. The remaining coaches. Lothrop
Wilmington, Bob Fisher, Derry Par
menter, Dick Wigglesworth, Bob Guild
and the other coaches. who come to
CaIubride for weeks at a time during
the playing season, receive moderale lie
sums for their services
While football Is an expensive sport
1t is a good investment. The latest
report OF the graduate manager showed
that the football season of 1912 had
total receipts cf s123000 the total ex-
pc nditures amounted to $4,000, show
Ing a net profit of $4,000. a sum that
was sufficient to defray all the college
sports for the year except baseball
which like football is self-sustaining