COACHES' SALARIES NOT CUT TO $8,000

The following statement was issued yesterday by Mr. Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the Athletic Committee, refuting the report that a maximum salary of $8,000 was to be set for the head football coach at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. No such agreement was reached by the "Big Three," declared Mr. Pennypacker, but a decision was reached limiting the total budget for football coaching. Mr. Pennypacker's statement follows:

"I very much regret the erroneous statement published in last night's 'Transcript' and in this morning's 'CRIMSON' that an agreement between Harvard, Yale and Princeton restricted an individual football coach's salary to a maximum of $8,000. This is not the fact. The restriction was made on the total varsity football coaching budget. The same definite limit was set on this for each of the three institutions.

"The mistaken report arose from the fact that for some time the feeling has been expressed in many quarters that the salary of the football coach ought not to exceed the maximum salary of a full professor, which at present happens to be $8,000 at Harvard College.

"It should be distinctly understood that no such limit was set on individual coaches salaries by agreement of all three colleges."

In response to a telegraphic request for his views on the subject, the CRIMSON received the following statement last night from the head of the Princeton Athletic Committee:

"I am glad to respond to your telegraphic request for my views as to the limitation of coaches salaries. I believe the Harvard-Yale-Princeton agreement limiting the total coaching budget of the varsity football team of each of the three institutions is a step in the right direction and Princeton is glad to join in this move. The adjustment of an individual salary in any field of service is a much more complicated question and may become unfair if a restriction in one field is arbitrarily set according to limits established in another field. I can see no necessary or logical relation between the salary of a professor and the salary of a coach. Under these circumstances I believe the limitation is better applied to the total coaching bugget leaving each institution free to divide that budget into separate salaries as circumstances may make advisable."