The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-02
IT Certainly PAYS TO Be
A WINNER IN ATHLETICS
Estimated Receipts at Harvard Are
100000, More Than Half of
Which Reverted to Treasury-Pre-
vious Records at Football Crushed


rather, according to the receipts of the
Harvard football season. Estimates OF
the receipts place the amount at $780,
600, of which more than one-half re-
verted to the Harvard treasury.
All previous records for money -mak-
ing in football were fractured and
crushed by the figures set up by
Haughton S squad of advanced grid
iron students, for the new Yale bowl,
with its capacity of 10000, enabled
the Harvard team to get over the line
and win the honor of being the first
college football team in the United
States to play to more than 100000
in gate receipts in a single season.
The attendance records were also
broken during the season just passed,
and again the Yale bowl made possible
the new record. More than zoe. 900
persons saw Harvard play its nine
games. The average attendance at a
Harvard game was 23,300, which
would be staggering crowd at a ma
jor league baseball game.
The attendance figures grew steadily
at Harvard from the opening game to
Brown-Harvard game in the stadium
on November IA, when the Crimson
substitutes lined up against the Bru-
nonians, was the crowd smaller than
it had been on a preceding Saturday.
The three games on the Harvard SEIZED
ule-those with Yale, Princeton and
Michigan-drew 10000, aud the six
games of lesser Importance swelled the
figures by 10000, bringing the graod
total to 100000.
The Harvard Athletic Association is
even now counting up the money taken
in during the season and the official
statement of Harvard finances as re-
suit of its most successful football
season will not be ready for many
weeks. Harvard of course, does not get
all the money paid in by spectators at
the games for the opposing teams got
percentage or liberal guarantees in all
cases.
The actual receipts for the Harvard
management will be between $150,00O
and $170,000, however, and after all
the football expenses have been de-
Quoted there will still be big balance
left to the credit of the 1914 football
team. And inasmueh as nearly all the
other varsity and freshman athletic
teams at Harvard lose money annually,
the football record viii defray almost
wholly the deficits rung up by the los
ing propositions.
The Harvard management realizca
before the season began $4,000 from
the sale of about 1900 season tickets
to the general public at SO each. These
tickets were good for all games played
by the Crimson except those with
Princeton and Yale. Then about 1000
ii. A. A. tickets, which are issued only
TO the Harvard students at So each
were sold, adding $4,000 to the re-
ceipts.
The Bates game at the opening of
season had an attendance of 1900
and the receipts approximated $4,000
cash. The second contest, with the
Springfield Training school, had a
slightly larger attendance and the re-
eeipts advanced to about the $500
mark, The Washington and Jefferson
game lured 10000 to the stadium and
the gate receipts amounted to about
$4,000.
From the day of the Washington
and Jefferson game to the Princeton
game, month later, the greatest OF
the Harvard stars were out of the game
through injuries. Captain Brickley
was operated on for appendicitis while
his team was opposing the w. and }
combination. Mahan had pulled ten
don Pennock had a bad case of water
ON the knee, and there were more In.
Juries among the lesser lights In the
next several weeks more of the regu-
lars were out, including Trumbull.
Hardwick, Bradlee, Logan. Wallace
and Soucy. But through all this mis-
fortune the Harvard team continued
to draw and the receipts grew Satur-
day after Saturday, even though the
public knew that most of the stars
would be out of the lineup.
On rainy day the Tufts game
brought out crowd of 1000 and the
rem State team. a week later drew
lo,0OO persons. For the first time in
history, an October game brought more
tnan 1000 spectators when Michigan
opposed Harvard in the great intersec-
tional battle. October 81. There were
$4,000 in the stands and the receipts
tor the game were nearly 5000. The
following Saturday Princeton drew
$1,000 persons, at 81 each, and the re-
ceipts were $4,000.
The Brown game, with only the Har
ward substitutes playing, was sufi
cient attraction to lure 10000 persons
through the turnstiles, and the gate
money was in excess of $4,000. And
the Yale game, which is really old his
tory now, brought out 10000 spec
tators for a gate total of s140,0OO.
The whole mass of receipts for the
games In which the Harvard eleven
played were more than $500, 900 and
Harvard is ready to subscrib to the
axiom that to the victors belong the
spoils.