Women's Sports & Football Scholarships Fall Saturdays bring together millions of people to celebrate college football, a ritual that brings the community together in stadiums and living rooms of all America. This American sport takes a heavy financial toll on universities around the world. Only one in four colleges across America makes money on their football team (mostly large Division I schools). College teams spend millions of dollars to accumulate athletes and struggle to keep pace with rivals. With college football teams soaking up the bulk of the money for transportation, uniforms and soccer equipment, women's teams face cuts to scholarships and women's sporting events. This money drain is at the heart of the debate over how to balance opportunities in men's and women's college sports. School administrators are pouring too much scholarship money into the varsity football team, leaving less money for women's varsity sporting events. School administrators should reduce football scholarships so that universities have more money for women's sports. One of the problems at colleges is that too many football players have full-time scholarships to sit on the bench. A football team needs eighty to one hundred players. Coaches say it's to ensure talent is available when players get hurt, graduate or become academically ineligible to play. Why should colleges offer full scholarships to players who sit on the bench hoping to get a chance to play that night? If school administrators cut fifteen to twenty football scholarships, it would still allow for competitive football. Smaller colleges would also benefit if major football powers were no longer able to accumulate...... half of the paper ......une News Service Feb 20, 1997 (n.pag.). Berg, Aimee and Anne Seaton Huntington. “The numbers game: This time the success of women's college sports comes down to one thing: money.” Women's Sports Fitness 19.2 (March 1997): 34.Chandler, Liz and Pam Kelley. “Football is at the center of the equity debate because of the money it absorbs.” Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, February 20, 1997 (n.pag.).Fuller, Jackie "Utah Females Still Waiting for Sports Fairness." Dixie Sun, November 4, 1998 (n.pag.) Lichtman, Brenda "Sex Discrimination and School Sports: Title IX Compliance: Will Increased Funding for Women's Athletic Programs Require Existing Men's Sports to Be Cut?" USA Today 126.2634 (March 1997): 62.Mosley, Benita F. "First Do No Harm: Men's Agendas Must Not Be Sacrificed to Create Opportunities for Women." Women's Sports and Fitness 19.9 (December) 1997): 78.