Arizona republican., 1914-02-24
YALE MAY N0T BUVLD STADIUM
Lack of Funds Threatens Greatest of "Bawls;;" New Origin of Hidden Ball Play; Other College Sports.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DESPATCH NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Lack Of avail
 able funds threatens to seriously delay the completion of the Yale athletic sta
 dillm which it was expected would be
 finished in time for the Harvard fale football game scheduled for Saturday, November 21. The committee of TWen- tv-One in charge of the work on "Ihe
 Bowl" as the new stadium is generally termed. and of the complete athleuc equipment which it is planned to in stall has issued a circular appeal tG graduates. requesting more contrlbu' lions to finish the work on the football structure in time for the Harvard game next fall It is the ambition of the committee and all Yale to have the Yale Harvard game in the Bowl, but unless more funds are received. this will be impossible, since approximately s1O0. 900 must be subscribed within a short time, in order to continue the work without interruption.
 | The Yale Bowl, as at present plan l ned, will be the most pretentious and 1 commodious college athletic amphi- | llpdltl III llt NNI lb " Hti NpihBiNtN 1 it will seat 61.500 spectators and there will still be room for several thousand standees No provision has been made ! for either track athletics or baseball | in the stadium which has caused some little dissatisfaction among the follow
 CTS of these sports. Even though it is used exclusively for football it will be | the most imposing and expensive of all | the structures of similar type in the | country.
 | When the present Harvard stadium
 was first constructed it had an actual | seating capacity of 22,000, but since
 then, by the additions of a colonnade
 and wooden stands at one end of the field, the original capacity has been al most doubled. This structure is at present the largest in the east and cost $375.000.
 The reinforced concrete stadium at Syracuse University is one of the
 most notable products of modern en-
 gineering and was the first one built
 in the United States with the playing
 field below the level of the ground sur
 rounding it. It has a seating capacity
 of 10000 and was built at an initial ex-
 penditure of $S0O.O00.
 The Pennsylvania grandstand at
 Franklin Field is constructed of stone
 brick and wood and is one of the larg
 est in the United States, having a seat
 | ing capacity of 24,000. This structure
 with the adjoining gymnasium cos,
 s500,0OO.
 At Cornell work is already under way
 on an entirely new athletic equipment
 There will be three separate fields for football. baseball and track which vii cost approximately s200, ,OO0 The foot ball and baseball stand are to be con structed of concrete and will have seat. ing capacities of 5000 and 5000 respec. lively. The training quarters are to b, in building 200 feet long which vii cost $100,O00.
 ) Supporting the ancient contention ) that there is nothing new under tn ) sun comes statement from the soutl ) that a hidden ball trick in football wa ) not new or the child of coach Glenl Q | Warmers brain when his Carlisle In s dian eleven sprang the trick on liar Q yard in the early nineties. Accordinl ) to a player in the game the trick O ) hiding a football under a players jer 0 sey was first tried in the Auburn-V 0 derbilt contest of 1895. In telling of tn 0 origin of this football play he sa 0 recently:
 0 This play was first used in tn 6 Auburn Vanderbilt game in 1895, whic 0 was played in sea of mud and a driv C ing rain. and by the use of this trick o succeeded in getting away for sixt } yard run and a touchdown which b 0 the way was the only touchdown w 0 made in the game and the only touch 0 down l scored during my footba q career
 0 The origin of this play was an ac o cident pure and simple One nigh o about the middle of the season tn o coach said: Boys, I had kid ask m 0 once if it was against the rules to hid 0 the ball and while I don't see anythn ] against it I do not sec how the tric Q could be worked
 0 For a minute or two there wa 0 silence, which was broken by our cap o tain who said: I've got it. Why nc o stick the ball under your jersey Q Hardly were the words out of hi ! mouth before I was in the next room , where 1 pulled on jersey and slippin a football under the front of it wake o proudly back into the room. Befor 3 We adjourned that night we had worke I out the trick as we afterwards used i Q After we found out that the ball coul ! be concealed easily and quickly. tn ! only thing remaining was to so arrang I formation which would cover I'D th q trick and then to draw the opponent a off so that I could have a chance f n get away.
 ! A new use has been found for west q ern college football players of tn n Adonis type These heroes of the grid ' iron secured positions as artists mod n els for the men who draw illustration n for ready made clothing advertise n ments. For their time they receive $ n an hour and all they had to do was n put on a borrowed suit of clothes an o stand in an alleged society pose along n side model of the feminine sex. Som 9 co-eds found positions almost as eas,