Show BIG PROFITS OF GRIDIRON football Is easily the greatest Grea monty money i getter among all college i sports to any one who has seen even ione i ono one ot of the minor tall fall contests con t ests upon the gridiron it will not be surprising to learn that football Is the greatest moneymaker money maker among all the college sports the profits in auy other field are comparatively negligible and the football surplus each year helps to make up some ot of the deficit that rei suits butts from maintaining unprofitable ablo i athletics it is reported that I Harv ards receipts from football toot ball last year of 0 which vilich represented anted clear profit princeton received V and achieved a neat profit ol of these are gains of which any athletic enterprise might well teel feel proud even in a season tar far less abbreviated than that in which football has to make its money so it Is scarcely arcely ic surprising that the tha athletic authorities ot of tile the colleges rei gard football as their most important aport but the game holds that prestige not merely because of 0 the alno showing made by its financial balance sheet it seems rather that the largo large income Is to be attributed to tho the prestige ot of college football as an exclusive and unique game it occupies a field in which the undergraduates have everything practically their own way and are not yet disturbed by professional fess ional competition As a sport it enjoys the especial distinction 0 of the college stamp |