Evening star., 1933-01-18
CAL|FORNA PLANS
| $4,000 REDUCTION
Will Omit Long Jaunts by Ath-
Ietic TeamS-Stanford,
Oregon State to Cut.
BY CARL G. BENJAMIN.

4 AN FRANClSCO, january 10.
indications are plentiful
- that intercollegiate athletics
will be conducted on the
Pacific Coat this yeEr with rigsr
economy. f1ne plans FOR curtailinr
expenses are necessary as a result
of leSsened income sg9..R soot paTL
which la-rtSiy pays the way for
OTHER branches of college sports.
University Of California athletic au-
thorities are taking steps to reduce
expenses by s55.000 as a result of
$4,000 drop in revenue during the
recent foot ball season from what was
anticipated. The reductions recon-
mended include curtailment of crew
travel; elimination Of trips East by the
tennis team; participation in the
I. c. A. A. A. A. track meet; volun-
tary and involuntary cuts in salaries of
coaches, and a 10 per cent reduction
in salaries of student assistants
The salary reductions for the head
coaches of foot ball. track, basket ball,
freshman foot ball and crew would
have to be voluntary, as each holds q
long-term contract. Fans generally
have difficulty in believing that the
crew will not be sent to Poughkeepsie
to defend its championship but the
saving on that one item would be
about $4,000, not an inconsiderable
amount nowadays.
CTANFORD by similar methods Is
- planning on saving about $25, 900,
but is not abandoning plans to
send team to the l. G. A. A. A. A.,
where in the last few years it has
been strong contender. The STAN
ford coaches who will accept a cut in
clude Pop Warner, who will draw a
salary at Stanford until the end Of
October, when he starts drawing pay
from Temple.
Stanford undoubtedly will save
money. compared with last season, on
its foot ball coaching staff with Tiny
Thornhill taking Warmers place as head
coach and Ernie Nevers stepping into
Thornhill's place as first assistant.
THE resignation of Paul J. schissler,
l. head foot ball coach at Oregon
State, followed protest by
Schissler against taking a salary cut
and has opened the way for that COL
it had planned for Schissler. The Cor
Wallis school win not go out after q
high-priced coach.
Washington, seeking a loan to carry
on athletically until the next foot ball
season, is under the necessity to curtail
draStically the expenses of its athletic
activities. Whether Head Coach Jimmy
Phelan will return to coach the Huslies
is said to depend somewhat on
Strengthening out of the schools ath-
letic finances.
TT is anticipated that reductions of
L athletic expenses all along the line
will be followed next Fall by re-
vision downward of the price of foot
ball tickets.
There were some reductions at both
Stanford and Berkeley the past season,
but many fans stayed away because the
reductions were either not large
enough or applied only to seats in the
ends of the stadium.
1t may turn out that lowering of
ticket prices will increase the amount
Of money taken in by foot ball.
ONE form of reducing expenses many
~ fans would not object to would be
curtailment of scouting future OPP
ponentS foot ball teams.
Two Of the most interesting games
played in the Bay area the past season
were the post-season California Georgia
Tech game at Berkeley and the East
West All-Star Shrine game in San
Francisco. AS the performers for the
aforementioned game are drawn from
all parts of the country for the one
encounter scouting was impossible, and
California and Georgia Tech had an
agreement AGAINST scouting
As result both games had plentiful
elements of surprise and plentiful
thrills not seen in regular games,
where special defenses are carefully
perfected against the secuted plays used
by opponents. More games with sur
prise thrills would act with lowered
ticket prices in stimulating foot ball
attendance, it Is widely believed here
aboutS.