The Washington herald., 1922-12-25
CRIMSON TEAM
PLAYED BEFORE
$4,000 FANS
Receipts for Nine Games, In
cIuding Yale Battle, Close to
100000.

~ AMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. "a.
L., As far as receipts for the
~ gridiron alone are concerned
the Harvard treasury is enrich
ed in net profits for the football
season of nearly 100000, ac-
cording to unofficial figures. The
Crimson team played before a
gate of $4,000 or more and the
gross receipts of their nine
games including the big one in
the Yale Bowl, reach 100000,
while the expenses necessary to
prepare the eleven for the Yale
game were almost $4,000.
The exact receipts from Harvard
football will probably not be made
public. No official figure on the
1920 season were ever made public,
although for the past dozen years
up to that time. with the excep-
ton of the war years. the entire
financial status OF the Harvard Ath-
letic Association was made known.
Last year a report was made only
to the Board Of Overseers. and un-
less the situation is changed the
same policy will be followed cover
ing sports for the college year 1921
%. as well as for the academic term
started in September.
Before Harvard started to swing
into her schedule the past Fall the
better part OF S66 1000 for the sale
Of IL 900 season tickets was in the
II. A. A. bank account. This was
q most propitious start and augured
well for the remainder Of the sea-
son, probably being enough to cover
the guarantees offered seven teams
on the schedule, leaving out the
games with Princeton and Yale,
where it is usually a $3.50 split on
the net receipts.
The big money maker for both
Harvard and Yale was their game
In the Bowl at the close Of the
season. The official paid attendance
was, with 1913 spectators paying
on an average OF SO a ticket. SEA
739. A rough estimate of Har-
wards share in this golden goose
egg is 800. 900 over all expenses.
The second largest gate was pOlled
here against Princeton, when. again.
spectators paying SO pasteboard
thronged the stadium TO the tune
of 81 lis. or, figured in money. $780,
"a. Harvard's bit of this over and
above all expenses was about S1O.-
900.
Dartmouth coaxed the next best
cash attendance at the stadium with
49. .994 enthusiasts paying SS9.93S
The Hanover management probably
took 2O.OOO back with them, al
though there is a possibility that
the $3.50 arrangement existed. Cen
tire. with an attendance of 4S.8i2,
made for herself about $4,000,
leaving Harvard a good share of
the s76.6s4 taken in.
This concludes the real money
making games. Roughly figured.
Harvard profited on the following
games thus: Middlebury, S3.5S2.5O
HOLY Cross. $1O.2O9.22: BowdOin. So
900: Florida. Ss.712.5O; and Brown.
$4,000. unless the game was run
on an even basis.
The paid attendance al Harvard's
games this fall is believed to he Il
new record in intercollegiate foot
hall. also the net receipts are far
ahead OF all other Harvard records,
and probably any other college. The
prospects for the 1928 season are
Just as alluring. save that around
b0. 900 instead OF 1000 will see
the game with Yale. as it is 10 he
played in the stadium instead of
the larger seating Bowl
Every cent of the money. except
for coaching expenses. will he used
to carry along the other sports. only
II NH nd ha &c haS1hall
is able to hold its head up unas-