The Sporting World

THE SPORTING WORLD.

It seems unlikely that the annual Yale-Princeton championship football game will be played in New York city this year. The fact that Princeton will depart from her custom of refusing to play outside of college grounds and will meet the Carlisle Indians at Berkeley oval, New York, in November, led some of the followers of collegiate football to assume that the annual championship game between the Tigers and old Eli might also be played in Gotham. It is learned from an official source that games between the big elevens in that city are still far distant. This is ascribed to the fact that both Yale and Princeton, upon agreeing to meet alternate years at Princeton and New Haven, went to the expense of building huge grand stands and laying out new gridirons. The departure involved a large outlay, and it will take several years for the big teams to earn from the gate receipts sufficient money to defray the expenses. In 1897, when Princeton played Yale at New Haven, the Yale Athletic association laid out a new football field and had large grand stands with a seating capacity for 25,000 persons built, and the returns from the Princeton game did not cover the expenditure, but last year Yale netted a profit from the Harvard match played at New Haven. Last fall Princeton laid out a new gridiron and constructed new stands at a big cost on Brokaw fields. This was the direct cause of the loss shown by the football association at the end of the year.

Now in order to recover the money invested in the new football field it is felt that it will be necessary for some years to hold the big matches on the respective college grounds where no rental or percentage of gate receipts is expected from the games.