Clipping:Football admission price
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| Date | Saturday, November 15, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] Foot ball is this season vieing with base ball in the colleges as yielding the best “gate” of any of the field sports of the college arena. Just think of nearly eight thousand spectators being gathered at Washington Park, Brooklyn, on election day, to see the Yale team play a practice exhibition match with the veteran college-player team of the Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, and that too at half a dollar admission, with half a dollar extra for the grand stand seats. The financial success of this meeting has apparently thrown the management of the Yale and Princeton championship meeting of Thanksgiving Day off the track of sound judgment, for I see that it is announced that the admission fee and grand stand seats, for the grand match of the 27th inst., will be doubled—that is, the admission fee will be one dollar, with one dollar extra for grand stand seats. This is approaching the line of the professional business so closely as to make it something entirely beyond the pale of legitimate amateur arrangements. It is not required by the outlay for expenses, and it is simply a greedy grab on the part of the college people, who by such action are proving pretty conclusively that they are as much 'out for the stuff” in sports as the Players' League base ball clubs themselves. The increased tariff has raised a howl of indignation from the students of the various colleges, who intended taking this grand match in and who claim that the present rate is high enough for all purposes. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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