Show I IMPORTANCE OF OP G GRID RID BUSINESS Huge Profits Made on Football Football Football Foot Foot- ball Sustain Athletics raw Now and then the public gels gets nn an Inkling of nf the l bu business Importance of fi If one line nu of the boys bols out on the field accepted a 8 quarter and It become became known he hI would be tired but so su I long as he Is nu an amateur he can perform In the greatest st business success sue suc cess ess e of the sports world writes Fred Turby lu iu the Louisville Courier Courier- Journal After Atler paying the conches coaches the bushness bush busi business ness manager anI and the Jerk outfitting outfitting outfit outfit- ting the team and oud all of that there sometimes It II Is ns os touch much as or even e left in the strong box bilL When tien profits run to 1 a ft year eor It U Is a business for the Investment lo Is la small The United States Naval n Academy has Issued a u re report llort showing that Navy pIli II u away way from row home four tour times times- Notre bame at lit Baltimore Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania tat at nt Michigan at ot otAnn Ann and Army at New V lurk fork The Then Navy's Navys n money mOlley shore share of these fou four r ga games mes amounted to U I Navy doesn't charge admission to the football games It plays plas at ut the academy These home games gainer are losses for tur the Navy y must pay the expenses expenses ex ex- of ot the visiting teams and something some some- thing besides Where does dillS that fortune go got go The Navy Nary c expert shows S IGl being spent lIt on football The rest Is la profit The fhe report shows that It costs about IU to carry curry one olle football player through the season properly equipped Hut But the difference Terence be between tween the cost of football for a year e nr and the football revenues Is not oot all nil In the bank on In I e eteree terest teree t For football at the tile Naval academy the same sama as ns at any Other school must help keep all athletics alive alheIt It Is re reported ported that rA Is the cost of conducting all sports at the Naval No academy for tor a 11 single year So there Is more than profit If sports grow In popular Interest this profit profil will v. gro grow There may of course be Ill a n falling ofT off anI and some year would show a deficit but buIlt It Is not Dot reasonable to believe e that there will be more than one olle bad bol year In ID four tour or five Ore Suppose It Is one bad hod year In four tour That means that the profits for tur the three good goodyears goodyears years would a amount to and ItI It I the he deficit for Jor or the bad year car was only there still s would be a net profit of ot for the four years Of the OOOO 1600 spent for athletics at the academy only 2580 roo 00 Is spent for Instructors In athletics At Al the end Ind of the year there was was n R total of in In the th bank bonk The cost of ot football has been heen IncreasIng Increasing ing gradually Of or course there will willbe be Increased costs of ot administration along as us business grows s but It shouldn't cost a s lot more for tor a B team this year I than It did dill several se years ago |