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Show COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE COSTLY Harvard developed its football stare this vear at.a coat of $1000 each. T'oot-ball, T'oot-ball, 'like everything clue, has Increased In cost, and tho appearance of eleven woll-condltloncd. thoroughly Voac,l players on tho field against Princeton and Yale for the championship represented an outlay of more than $35,000. Football championships come hljp m prlco. and to rotaln Its title the crlmoon employed the best coaches obtalnablo at fat salaries. , The entire coaching staff this season, cost ahout S15.000, and to' this must be added tho heavy .expense of equipping and training a big squad of. players, tlio ltlro of special trains nnd many othot Items of cost. . , It 1h figured that each one of tno thirty players composing tho prennt Harvard" Har-vard" squad cost tho athletic association 51000 for his couching and training, and this m a season that only last about nlno weeks. |