THE LINCOLN SUNDAY STAR $25,145.71, a net profit of $3,630.02.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1915 Basketball Next. Basketball came nearest to paying its own way, with receipts of $1,479.71
FOOTBALL ALONE and a deficit of but $98.09. Track
brought in $1,389.20 during the season, with an expenditure of $2,108.85.
MADE EXPENSES Wrestling receipts amounted to
$160.83, with $197.51 expenses. Minor sports netted the management but $16.23, while the outlay was $377.15. The deficits reported in all other University Of Nebraska Minor branches of sport follow: Basketball $ 98.09 Sports Were Financial Track 719.45 Failures. Wrestling Minor sports 36.88 360.82 In the expenditures the biggest item Basketball Came Nearest Pay- is the guarantees given visiting teams, $10,152.92 going in this way. ing Its Way—Total De- Equipment cost the management ficits $1,200. $2,658.44; transportation, $1,953.20; and coaching, $l,900, for football alone Football is the only line of sport at The board had $162.12 paid in the University of Nebraska which paid during the year as interest on expenses during the past year, investments, $33.63 for lettering of life according to the annual statement of passes and $62.75 for a gymnastic athletic manager Guy E. Reed, just exhibition. Only $523 was spent for issued. Had it not been for the gridiron permanent improvements and game the university would have $1,119.24 came in from old equipment. suffered a big deficit—as it was, The board made up a deficit of $75.54 athletics were a financial failure at the resulting from the high school institution last year. basketball tournament held under the Basketball, track, wrestling, cross auspices or the state university, and country, and inter-department sports all incidental expenses cost $406.28. lost money. On the Debit Side. Kansas was the big money maker Total receipts were $28,851.67 for last year, the Huskers getting even the season, and total expenditures more money from the Jayhawker game $29,133.60. than from the game with the Michigan The failure of other sports to pay out Aggies. Following is the receipts for has again raised the question as to the different games: whether football should be compelled What They Brought. to bear the burden for the entire year. There are many advocates who think Washburn $455.60 the finances of each branch of sport South Dakota 854.00 should be kept separate. It is pointed Kansas Aggies 1,200.00 out that football men are compelled to Michigan Aggies 5,883.90 go without medical attention which Ames Aggies 1,734.50 they need, and many conveniences in Morningside 334.00 the way of equipment. Kansas University 9,714.00 These advocates would abandon all Iowa University 2,299.80 lines of sport which fail to prove The sale of season tickets netted the financially successful. Husker authorities $4,038, of which The Huskers will have rather an off $2,434.80, or 60 per cent, was set aside week during the coming week. to the credit of football. The balance of Nebraska plays Wesleyan at Lincoln income from season tickets was and while the Methodists have a strong credited to the different branches of secondary college eleven, Stiehm does sport on the following basis: not anticipate he will need much basketball, 12 per cent; track, 20 per preparation to defeat them. Probably cent; wrestling, 4 per cent and minor most of the second string men will be sports, 4 per cent. used against the Methodists unless Additional revenue was gained from Coach Kline's pupils prove unusually the rent of the Nebraska field to high strong. The varsity will be given the school teams, the sale of old equipment much needed rest before the Kansas and refund from transportation. The game, which is two weeks away