THE FOOTBALL SITUATION. 729 



Though this officer has been in service only one year, the good 

 results of his work already begin to manifest themselves, as the 

 following figures will show. They are taken from a statement 

 made at my request by the treasurer of the Financial Union. I 

 quote from the letter, only making such changes as will render 

 the statement clear to the general reader : 



" I have given the total footings, you will see, of the expenses 

 of the season of 1892 and also of the season of 1893. I have also 

 given you all the items which ran over $1,000 on the expenses 

 account. In comparing the total expenses, the comparison as 



given on this memorandum is from M 'a report, which was 



made the 1st of February, and H 's report, at the same time 



in the year. It seems to be impossible to get in all the bills, so 

 that the report shall be the same the 1st of February that it is 

 when I hand in my final report of the year in the summer. For 

 the sake of comparison, however, I would say this, that while 



M 's report showed $15,284.62 expended when he put in his 



report, the total expenses of the football season of 1892, when 

 closed up at the end of the college year, showed something over 

 $1,000 more than this, and I should think the season of 1893 would 

 show about the same addition. In either case, you see, it shows a 

 saving in 1893 over the season of 1892, unless there are some out- 

 side bills which I, as treasurer, do not know about at present. 

 In addition to that, we carried considerably more men in 1893. 



" In the item of the training table, the sum shown on this re- 

 port does not allow for the sum paid in by each man for his share 

 of the board. As you know, it is the custom for each man to pay 

 what he is paying regularly, so that from these items of the train- 

 ing table there would be a deduction of the amount paid in by 

 the team. As this is not yet in, I have given you the figures as 

 they stand without deducting the same. As nearly as I can cal- 

 culate it now, Mr. C , the manager, expects to get between five 



and six hundred dollars from this source, which would make the 



training table expenses pretty close down to $2,000. Mr. M 's 



collections from the team were, not as full as this, so that the sav- 

 ing at the training table will be even more than it appears in this 

 memorandum I am sending you." 



