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Attention has been called to the large gate receipts and the enormous amount of money spent on athletics as bad phases of the present athletic situation. This large income comes partly from the University, but chiefly from the public. At present season tickets are required for each sport and special tickets for big games, and in addition there are numerous calls for subscriptions, with consequent annoyance. There is a strong undergraduate feeling that subscriptions should be abolished. The burden of athletic support is not borne equally at present; a few pay for more than their share. With separate tickets...
...sports were combined with one H. A. A. ticket admitting to everything, including all Yale and Princeton games, and the price of the ticket made so low as to be within reach of all, and regarded as each man's share or contribution for sport and permanent improvement rather than as an admittance ticket, an improved athletic situation could hardly fail to result...
...solution of the financial problem could in my opinion be found in this way: (1) sell to members of the University, for $5, or less if possible, an H. A. A. ticket admitting to all home games in every sport major and minor; (2) abolish subscriptions, except for class teams, and leave managers and candidates for managerships free for the legitimate work of their positions, getting men out and looking after the general needs of the teams; (3) support all teams which the Athletic Committee allows to represent the University from a common fund, accruing from gate receipts and ticket...
...loss of many of last year's players by graduation affords an unusually good chance for upperclassmen of any athletic ability to try for the University team; and there is a good opportunity for all 1910 men who are not engaged in some other sport to try for the Freshman team...
...seems to me that nearly every undergraduate will grant that training tables are of distinct value in promoting the physical efficiency of the athlete, his interest in his sport, and his interest in his fellows. The question is not whether training tables should be maintained, but whether they should be maintained at their present high cost. If this high cost is due to extravagance, and the extravagance is removed, all cause for complaint should vanish...