Princeton Athletics Make Profit

An increase of $5500 in the profits derived from the various sports at Princeton is shown in the annual report of the athletic association recently issued.

The net revenue for the year 1914-15 amounted to $15,129.72 and this was made up entirely from the receipts of football, baseball and hockey games, those three sports being the only self-supporting ones for the year.

The increased profits are due largely to the increased attendance at the Yale-Princeton and Harvard-Princeton football games.

In the fall of 1914 the total receipts for football were $85,000 and the expenditures were $32,000. This left a net profit from football of $53,000 as compared to a profit of $38,000 in 1913. The increased seating capacity of Palmer Memorial Stadium helped materially to swell the fund.

Hockey rose during the year from the position of a parasite to a self-supporting sport. It showed a profit of $186 in 1914, after having given rise to a deficit of $683, the year before.

Baseball fell. It netted $8700 last year as opposed to $9318 the year before. The other sports required appropriations from the general fund for their support. Freshman athletics cost $3348 with practically no receipts.