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total receipts for the season were

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

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