Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1914 — URGE PROFITS OF GRIDIRON [ARTICLE]

URGE PROFITS OF GRIDIRON

Football Proves Greatest Money-Maker of AH College Sports—Harvard and Princeton Gains. To anyone who has seen even one of the minor fall contests upon the gridiron it will not be surprising to learn that football is the greatest moneymaker among all the college sports, says the Providence Journal. The profits tn. any other field are comparatively negligible, and the football surplus each yefir helps to make up some of the deficit that results from maintaining unprofitable athletes. If is reported that Harvard’s receipts from football last year were $114404, of which $84,713 represented clear profit, while Princeton received $87,313 add achieved a neat profit of $32,322. These are gains of which professional athletic enterprise might well feel proud, even in a season far less abbreviated than that in which football has to make its mcney.

So it is scarcely surprising that the athletic authorities of the colleges regard football as their most Important sport. But the game holds that prestige not merely because of the fine showing made by its financial balance sheet It seems rather that the large income to be attributed to the prestige of college football as an exclusive and unique game. It occupies a field in which the undergradu-ates-have everything practically their own way and are not yet disturbed by professional competition. As a sport it enjoys the especial distinction of the college stamp.