A single treasurer’s personal priorities steered all of Yale athletics funding

Evidence

Every attempt to upgrade such sports at Yale had run head on into the frenzy over football—it was the era when gridiron heroes like Ted Coy and Tad Jones were the campus gods, when the winner of the Big Three title was national champion, when every victory was celebrated with bonfires and torchlight parades down Chapel Street—and into the personal opposition of Camp, who, in addition to being first among the Eli football pantheon, had the more practical advantage of being treasurer of the Athletic Union. With the Yale Bowl that was his dream drawing ever closer to reality, Camp had been squirreling away the annual surplus of the Union with such enthusiasm that it had already reached $120,000, and he was not about to turn any of it over to the sports he derided. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 181

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A wealthy Yale alum single-handedly financed and coached the swimming team — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 18

Broader Connections

• A wealthy Yale alum single-handedly financed and coached the swimming team #exemplifies (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 18