Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — PROFITS OF COLLEGE SPORTS [ARTICLE]

PROFITS OF COLLEGE SPORTS

[Trifle Over $240,000 Made in Four Big Football Games of Last Season—--1 In First Place.

1 According to an authority who keeps close tabs npon the receipts ard expenses of major college athletics there-* its also some money In college baseball and football. The net profits of the Harvard, Yale, Princeton and ivanla elevens last season is set at a' trifle over $240,000, while the nines showed a profit of something over $30,*OOO. The fact that the football teams, iplaying less than a third as many igames as the baseball nines, were able to pile up about eight times the profits of the diamond combinations shows that the gridiron game still holds first place p* a money-maker in college sports.