Salaried Managers for College Teams

The recent movement at the University of Pennsylvania towards securing a graduate as financial secretary for the several athletic teams is explained more particularly in a letter from a member of the graduate Advisory Committee of that University.

The report stated that the University of Pennsylvania had engaged a salaried manager whose business will be to manage the various athletic teams. This step was unfavorably criticized, however, by the Advisory Committee and it has now been decided to follow Yale's example and to appoint some graduate on salary to manage the financial affairs of the athletic associations.

This step is in many ways advisable The duties of a manager of a college team have increased so much during the last few years that the time is not far distant when it will be expedient, if not necessary, for the larger colleges at least, to have a man of experience and mature judgment to look out for the interests of the athletic teams. His duties might include the entire management of the team or only that part which pertained to financial maters. Which of these two courses would be the wiser to pursue, each college would have to decide for itself, but it is very clear from the action of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania that in a very few years the management of college athletic teams will be conducted on entirely different principles.