Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — FOOTBALL IS PAYING SPORT [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL IS PAYING SPORT

Yale Treasury Enriched to Extent of $50,000 —Overhead Expense* Were SBO,OOO. Fifty thousand dollars is the amount Yale cleared on football during last season. While the 1919 meetings with Harvard and Princeton were not highly auspicious from a scoring point of view, reports show they were the best ever held from a financial standpoint. The Princeton match gave Yale approximately $61,000 and the Harvard game netted about $50,000 for each team. From the contest with Brown Yale got $6,000, and from other home games played about $3,000 each, bringing the grand total for the season to $130,000. Overhead expenses cut' Into this amount, however, to the extent of SBO,OOO. \