The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-29
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS


' number of years 1 have been
reading about the overemphasis OF
football.
have heard that football brought
in many hundreds of dollars at
the gate-in some cases more than
a million-and have been asked
what was done with AL this dough.
sided with Gus H. Fan. mean
TO say, what did happen with all
that dough?
The other night. Bill Bingham Of
Harvard made a talk before a group of
crimson alumni and newspaper men.
Among the things Bingham, who runs
Harvard athletics. said
You can't run college athletics without
gate receipts"
For some reason this seemed to strike
q lot OF people as unusual and unique
o9uidnt be otherwise
But. anyway 1 approached Bingham in
ne ante-room and l said:
How about telling me what this is all
oout7 How much money do you guys
AXE IMP What part does football play
"A your yearly scheme2 In short, what do
) gu do with all the money you take in
Z the gate&
Bingham IS without question the Al
Smith OF college athletics. He says what
4 will send you letter and tell you
everything you want to know" he said.
md here Is the letter:
FOOTBALL this year will fur
4 nish approximately $775,000 Of
the total receipts taken in by the
Harvard Athletic Association, an
amount which will be loosely, in the
neighborhood of $925,O00.
Out Of this SITS 900 obtained from foot
Together on football, and s2i7456 Of that
sum will be paid to visiting teams. This
leaves about $4,000 to cover all the uni
which are as follows:
Expenses games, $27 OOo Quitting
$1,000; equipment. $500. doctors. 1000
rubbing SO 000 services and wages, So, 500
nost of smaller expenses. Total planned
expenditure for all sports In the coming
YEAR Is $3.50. 1893.
In regard to the salaries of the various
year. No coach gets the same pay as
a tuL-tlme professor in these days,
m nrisd ISL, which seems to have have
back in 1922.
"A total Of $ll1 800 is used for the total
salaries OF sixty-two coaches allowing for
would come to about 81 sos per r." coach cf"S'
net pTo is me MADE and dpG therefore Ra
to paw for all the other sports. Base
ball earns $17.700 and pays out s2S. 1872;
hockey takes In $13. 700 but pays out
$50. 400. swimming, a minor sport, earns
So 300 and spends $1,000.
OuR tya .d 1anVneca
take in no money at all. and are pure
loss
TIME athletic association this
Il year has imposed a new tax on
the use Of the indoor athletic build
ing. The assertion has regretted the
necessity for its imposition, but the
building was given in a large part
by alumni and the cost of running
has devolved entirely upon the
Harvard Athletic Association.
The sum OF $4,000 is expended
yearly for this building alone. This
cost coveres salaries, light, heat,
power, water and maintenance. The
indoor athletic building includes the
swimming pool.
Last year the Harvard A. A. Budget, as
planned, would have shown a deficit of
about So 600 with 1910, 276 being expended
and 1901 ,276 taken in BY cutting down
on spring trips, however and economizing
in other ways only $886.914 was expended,
and since 1928 ga was eventually taken in,
a profit Of about $35 900 was made.
"All in ALL the luxury of intercollegiate
competition costs only $85, 900 more than
would a purely intra- mural program, dis
be really counted in the actual running of
the sports, and discounting also items off,
setting each other on the balance sheet,
such as the Harvard A. A. News, which eX-
Ponds about $4,000. but takes in more
the training table, travelling expenses
which are met by guarantees.
You may be interested in the fact that
the total expenditures of the Harvard
Athletic Association have declined in the
last three years. For the year l930-31 the
expenditures was S1.026.744 In 1882
the total dropped to $97o276 And this
year the Harvard A. A. should not spend
more than 1886, 1893"
z
What is this all about? Well,
you have been hearing for some
time about overemphasis in foot
ball. I thought you would like to
know how a big league athletic as
ISOLATION is run. Here you have the
facts. Draw your own conclusions.