Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-24
HARvkRDs FOOTBALL RECEIPTS
 SMALLER THAN 1914.
Gate Proceeds Amounted to $225,ooo-
 Team's Expenses $35,00o.

years eleven was not so bright as the 1914 team. Harvard attracted gate re- ceipts of about $225,00O in the past season. many thousands of dollars less than the sum taken in at the Dox office year ago.
 Not Kicking.
 The fact that the Yale Harvard game was played in the Stadium, with a capacity of only 49,000, instead of in the Yale Bowl, where 72,000 persons can be accommodated, is responsible for the falling off in gate takings. liar vard' is not kicking at the drop in re- ceipts. however, for the income to the athletic association should amount to about $125 GOO.
 Harvard splits 5O-5O on the gate money at it's principal games, such as those with Princeton and ' ale, and in the early season contests the visit ing teams are usually given a SubStan- tial guarantee. The gross proceeds for the Harvard Athletic association for its season of nine weeks therefore amounts to $125,000, it is estimated.
 Eddie Mahan's troupe played to a full house only once this season, and that, of course, was the gathering at last Saturdays performance when the great Yale tragedy was staged. The Princeton matinee attracted the sec ond largest audience of the year, but there were nearly 5000 more seats in 
 could have been occupied if ticket purchasers had come along. The third best house of the year was that which came to see the Brown game in the Stadium.
 The Harvard authorities were sur prised at the gate taking for the Brown contest, for early in the week of the game it had been announced in the newspapers that Harvard would play a team of substitutes. Conse- quently, it was expected that the clientele that likes, to see the regu- save their money, but the Crimson second company, as it were, attracted 10000 people just the same.
 $a5,ooo for Expenses.
 Of the $12j.00O gross earnings on Eddie Mahan's team, from $30, GOO to S35,000 will be taken for regular foot ball expenses. This item includes the salary to Haughton and the various assistant coaches. the travelling ex- penses of the football team, the cost of football apparatus and parapher- nalia, the printing of tickets and other minor expenditures. When all the ex- penSeS of the football season are de- profit of from $75,000 to $s5,000 on the season.
 The profits from football will helI defray the losses that are sustained every year at Cambridge in running the varsity track team, hockey team and crew, the freshman teams and the minor athletic teams. Football and baseball are the only two important sports which more than pay for them selves at Harvard. The definite report of Fred w. Moore, the graduate treas urer of Harvard athletics will not be made public for several months
 At the beginning of the season the Harvard football management solo several thousand season ticket books at $3 each to itssregular patrons, which included admission to all the games played in Cambridge except that witf Yale. Then there were several thou sand H. A. A. tickets sold exclusively to students at $5 each which admitted to the football games and which vii be good for admission to the base ball and track games next spring. Thu receipts from these two items amount. ed to from $15,000 to $20,0OO.
 The box office receipts at the Colby game, which opened the season, were light and less than $1,000 was takeI at the gate. The second game of the year with the Massachusetts Aggie' attracted a crowd of only 4,000, be. cause of the rain that fell and tht gate receipts were negligible, since most of those who attended were hold. CTS of season tickets. The Carlisle game attracted about 12 900 to the Sta. luIn ana the reCelpJS were around s3,000 at the box office. The Univer. sity of Virginia was also a drawins card and iured about 12,000 to th' Stadium. There was about S3,5Ot taken in at this game
 The first big money making contes was that with Cornell which 5,00t persons attended, and boosted the re. ceipts up to the S15,O00 mark Tn, Penn State game the following weel drew about the same sized audience but the receipts were slightly lower At Princeton, W. J., when Harvard played the Tigers for the first tim, in the Palmer Memorial Stadium, ther, was a crowd of 30,000 persons pres ent, each of whom paid g for hi ticket. The receipts from this gam were S6O,O00. Harvard's drawing powe as a box office attraction increased al result of the victory over the Tig CTS and the following week when tn subs played the Brown team at th Stadium, a crowd of more than 2O,90 was present, and the box office talk lngS amounted to more than $20, 000
 The number of tickets sold to tn Yale game was approximately 49, ,00C and the income at S2 each was S9S,00O Just what the monetary difference i between Yale game in the Stadium and one in the Bowl is illustrated b, the statement that S144, 900 was take1 in at New Haven a year ago. The de crease in the capacity for the Yale Harvard game this year resulted in ; falling off of more than $45,000 fo just that game.