Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-15
new RECORD FOR FOOT BALL
Gate Receipts This Year Will Total
Larger Than Ever.
ACCOMMODATIONS ARE TAXED
Many Spectators Are Turned Away
from Big College MeetInEs Re-
cause There f. Not Room
Enough In stadiums.
nv FRANK q. MENKE.

year will establish new high records.
The attendance Of all the important
games this year has been greater than
ever before.
The war may have crimped the base
ball patronage. but II has had no effect
upon the college sport. More than 1900
90 persons will sec the big games I'm the
different parts OF the country. and the
average price per head will be $3.50,
bringing the total outlay up to N,50O,0OO.
In other years foot bali attendance
was made up largely Of students OF
graduates Of the universities engaged In
the battling. That part Of the public
which has no alma mater and which got
all its learning in tho grammar schools
or In the school Of business didn't
patronage the games 10 any extent But
this year It is different
Foot ball has made strong appeal 20
all the classes in the last two years
The adoption Of the open style game that
permits the spectators to see what Is go
ing on and which sippifes the game
from the spectators viewpoint has en-
abled tens of thousands Of persons to
grasp the intrlcacies OF foot ball. and
these thousands have become enthus-
iastic rooters
The receipts OF the Harvard Michigan
game were in the neighborhood Of 10000
The Harvard Princeton game receipts
wore over 10000 The Yale-Prnceton
receipts probably will total $4,000. while
the receipts from the Yale-Harvard game,
which will be played next Saturday. will
get over fi26.OO0.
Accom- nm cd n tiOns Limit Receipts.
The receipts for the three big games
would have been larger had the accom-
modasions for spectators been greater
The Yale bowl will seat 7O0O0. When II
was In the courso OF construction II was
said by some that the stands never could
be filled. Yet requests for more than
125.0OO seats we're made for that game
The requests for seats for the Yale
Princeton game were thousands in ex-
cess OF the ticket supply.
Attempts are now being made to steal
from the so-called smaller colleges the
glory that is theirs through beating or
tying the big elevens by charging that
those small colleges hire professional foot
ball players to bolster up their ranks.
The chances are ten to one that there
Is absolutely no truth in the charges
that the charges are false and that they
th0IOI DC UAChtu up An N uhhdl WIN
charges OF this kind no real names are
mentioned In the article. The indictment
is blanket one.
Whenever small eleven. that has a
student enrolment about one-fifth or
tenth OF that OF Yale. Harvard. Princeton,
Michigan. Chicago, or the other big coll
ieges. ambles along and knocks the wad-
ding out OF the big college, such charges
usually follow. The "old grads and the
students OF the big colleges cannot see
how II Is possible for small college
eleven TO wallop a big college eleven un-
less there ls some crooked work behind
It, SO they charge that the small col
leges used ringers" They assist bla.
tantly that mo small college team could
beat Us otherwise"
Uncertainty Breeds Interest.
In the olden days the chances Of q
small eleven beating big eleven were
remote. because old style foot ball ruled
and beef and muscle triumphed ninety
nine times out OF 100. But in these mod
ern days when the open game IL in force
when speed and brains are greater assets
than beef. there always Is great de
gree OF uncertainty as 20 just how Z
foot ball game will end.
II b charged that one OF the small
elevens that gave a big eleven . beauti
ful beating used professional in one o.
the guard positions. Taking Il from thu
statements made one Ia led to beuev'
that this professional" guard was solell
responsible for tho victory OF the small
eleven. Everyone is left to assume tina
as soon as the game began the simoi
pure amateurs on the small team qui
work and let the professional on the job
the said professional playing all the 20
sitiOhs by his lonesome.
The small colleges. We are informe
through the medium OF the article. hir
professional foot ball players at an ev
erage wage OF ,25 OF so a month an
board. This statement Il laughable.
a youth Is husky enough to play guar
on a college eleven he certainly IL husk
enough TO tackle some other sort OF jot
And any old kind OF a Job would pa
him more than $50 per month-thats
cinch. Furthermore. mighty few jou
that he would tackle would involve IN
same risks TO life and limb as foot ba
does.
II the charges had declared that N
alleged ringers get 500 a month theI
might have been some who would haN
given the matter consideration. But 5
sounds like bunk.