Athletic Department Trims Costs of Traveling Teams

Varsity athletic teams will bus-not fly-to Columbia or Princeton next year and squads will use the dining and housing facilities of host schools when they are on the road, the Athletic Department has announced.

These economy moves, which will be instituted this Spring and next Fall, are part of a cooperative effort by all Ivy League schools to cut team travelling expenses.

Like every other department, the Athletic Department has been given an order by the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that cutbacks will be needed," Baaron R. Pittenger, associate director of athletics, said yesterday.

'Desirable'

All these changes represent the wish of the Athletic Department to eliminate what Pittenger termed "desirable, but not necessary items" in order to maintain the current level of intramural and recreational expenditures.

The department is making the cuts, Pittenger said, to continue Harvard's policy of "athletics for all."

Instead of eating their meals at expensive restaurants, Harvard squads will use the dining facilities of the schools they are visiting whenever possible.

Members of the teams will stay in the dorms of opponents, rather than hotels, and they won't have their accustomed snack money. The squads will only fly to Cornell and Penn and bus to Princeton and Columbia.

Business

Pittenger and Francis J. Toland, Athletic Department business manager, insist that, because all the Ivy teams are taking the same measures, Harvard squads will not be adversely affected in League competition. Players and coaches, however, seem more disturbed.

"Personally. I like the relaxation of a hotel room," football quarterback Rod Foster said yesterday. "Staying in a hotel helps us get up for a game."

Basketball coach Bob Harrison, discussing housing in college dorms, said, "There are too many distractions on a campus. But whatever the Athletic Department says, we have to do."