Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
FOOTBALL RECEIPTS
BREAK ALL RECORDS.
European War Does Not Seem to
Have Any Effect on Grid
iron Sport.
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GATE RECEIPTS
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This Is the Amount, 1t Is Estimated,
VIII DO Spent This Year---Attempt
Made to steal Credit From Small
Collegiate Institutions.

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year Will establish new high records.
contents has been greater than oyer
before.
i, The 7, g, war msy , hay, cr,Impea the base
than 100000 persons viii see sec the ' biz
games In tho different narts OF the
SSs esI' and the average prise pc,
In other years football attendance
,"rn,, maae up largely Of students or
lie which lad no Alma Mater and
which got all its learning In the gram
ness. didn't patronize tho games to
any extent But this year II Is differ
cnt.
Football has made strong appeal
,fhc adoption OF tho open style game
that permits the SPECTATORS 10 SEQ
the game from tho spectators view.
81 persons % grasp the 3nstieaeies Of
come cnthusastic rooters.
The receipts of the OF the Harvard
M Mich Eanns s were ere II the nc ,ei i
ton game receipts were over 10000.
will viii total .I s1&o49. while tho reeslP q
TIC EaI1Gt w
over 8 s19S. dSea neA' '"'uroas' YIN se'
The receipts for the three big games
modations for Spectators been greater.
The Yale Bowl viii seat 10000. When
1t was in tho course of construction 1T
never Mss s sod BE lles Yet re ns fes
more than 1870 seats were made for
that game. The REQUEST for seats for
ards I'm nf tha ffcN at gnnnlx.
steal from the Eo-eaiied ""sinafier" COL
the st9Y that The is bs eis
Fire Fire is footbaii players 10
bolster UP their ranks.
Tho chances arc ten to one that
charges-that the charges. are false
and that s, they ea ne be 81 Packed S;s n9
10 real names arc mentioned in the
article. The Indictment Is blank ct
Whenever "small'' eleven, that has
n student enrolment of about ono
fifth or one-tenth Of that of Yale. Har-
yard. Princeton. Michigan. Chicago, or
and knocks tito wadding out. Of the big
college, such charges usually, follow:
The "old grads and the students Of
the big colleges can't see how 1t is
possible for small college eleven to
wallop big college eleven, unless there
is Botne crooked Work behind II. so
they charge that the small colleges
used Ringers" They assert blntantls'
that mo small college team could beat
US otherwise"
In the olden days the chances of a
small eleven beating a big eleven were
remote. because old style football rules
and beef and muscle triumphed ninety
nine times out of 100. But In these
modern days, when the open Eamo Is
liz force. when speed and brains arc
greater assets than beef, there always
Is a great degree of uncertainty as to
just how. II football game will end
1t Is charged that one OF the small
elevens that gave big eleven a beau
tlful beating used a professional IN
one of the guard positions. Taking 1t
from the statements made one is led
guard was solely responsible for the
victory of the small eleven.
Every one Is left to assume that as
soon az the game began the simon
pure amateurs on the small team quit
work and let the professional on the
job, the said professional playing all
the positions by his lonesome.
The small colleges. we are informed
through the medium of the article, hiro
professional football players at an
average wage of S25 or $40 n month
and board. This statement is laugh
able.
II a youth is husky. enough to play.
guard on a college eleven he certainly
is husky enough to tackle some other
sort OF job. And any old kind of q
job would pay him more than $50 per
month-that's cinch. Furthermore.