| Show PASS ur amount yale princeton and harvard toss to discard big sum of money big colleges could coax from sporting publics bottomless pocket will be left lef untouched half a million dollars which has annually been spent for the lust last three years by spectators nt fit the football games of harvard yale and princeton will be saved or div diverted C artea elsewhere i this year the withdrawal of the big three from varsity football for the 1917 season will leave this large sum la in circulation the sad part of the circumstance Is that the is ready to be exchanged for football tickets again this fall but the three universities have decided that it 11 ought not to client cheat the sporting public by putting on inferior teams and not a cent of the money will come into the athletic treasuries as a result harvard yale and princeton can afford to pass up its annual taking of football receipts this season better than most of the other colleges but nevertheless these three big fellows could und end plenty of uses for the monkey money fixed charges are still going on in cambridge new haven and princeton ceton N J and in the absence of lv varsity ralty football such charges will amount t to it a loss office salaries still continue and the usual expense for the upkeep of the football plants must he be met money bloney to meet these thee normal e expenses must come out of the athletic treasury for it Is the law that sports must be kept as a separate item and not encroach on the academic appropriations when the war Is over and athletics Is resumed it Is certain that harvard yale and PrInce princeton tou in common with most of the other colleges of the country will face deficits in the athletic departments in the case of the big three however it will probably not take more than a single football season to balance the ledgers football Is always the best paying sport and can be depended on to make more th than an its heavy expenses in a few years im media mediately tel y following the war however it Is probable that some of the 0 ther other sports will wili have a e to be handled more economically than they previously were crew racing for instance rolls up a heavy expense and returns but little in receipts the same thing goes for track athletics in the reconstruction period it Is probable that football can pay for itself and make up for the deficit caused by the unprofitable war years but there will not be much money left over to pay for the big losses rung up by the nonpaying sports for that reason economy will still have to be practiced after all departments part ments of sports are once more operating on a normal basis |
