Monday, December 04, 2017

Taking Attendance

AVERAGE 2017 HOME ATTENDANCE
Yale 18,940 (10,818 before Harvard)
Harvard 10,411
Princeton 7,366
Cornell 6,793
Columbia 6,672
Dartmouth 5,512
Penn 5,275
Brown 2,999

PERCENTAGE OF CAPACITY 2017
Dartmouth 50.1
Columbia 39.2
Harvard 34.3
Yale 30.8 (17.6 before Harvard)
Princeton 26.5
Cornell 26.5
Brown  14.9
Penn 9.9

NONCONFERENCE OPPONENT HOME AVERAGE
Holy Cross 7,200
Sacred Heart 3,075
Stetson 1,941

OTHERS OF INTEREST HOME AVERAGE
New Hampshire 12,751
Lehigh 7,138
Colgate 4,788
Georgetown 2,166

AVERAGE DARTMOUTH HOME ATTENDANCE BY YEAR
2017 – 5,512
2016 – 5,638
2015 – 6,660
2014 – 5,549
2013 – 5,807
2012 – 6,402
2011 – 5,847
2010 – 5,971
2009 – 4,103
2008 – 5,136
2007 – 5,498
2006 – 5,597
2005 – 5,317
2004 – 4,859
2003 – 5,656
2002 – 5,909
2001 – 5,578
2000 – 5,635

1995 – 5,797
1990 – 7,482
1985 – 9,405
1980 – 12,725
1975 – 12,150
1970 – 13,148

Green Alert Take: While Dartmouth home attendance declined significantly since 1970 (when both Harvard and Yale were road games drawing a 35,000 and 60,820 respectively), it has remained stable since 1995.

Green Alert Take II: Most Ivy League football facilities are way too large.

Green Alert Take III: Sacred Heart's average was inflated significantly by the record 5,569 when the Pioneers played Dartmouth on family day. Attendance for the other four games averaged 2,452.