Week 8 Attendance

[Ivytalk]

7177 in Cambridge to see Harvard hold off Lafayette, 24-14.

[bulldog10jw]

8788 in the Bowl to see Yale defeat Colgate 45-31. Very disappointing. Didn't any of those 34k that came for the Army game like what they saw?

[Ivytalk]

Bulldog, I wouldn't be surprised if next week's crowd at Princeton for the Harvard game is under 10K.

[bulldog10jw]

Bulldog, I wouldn't be surprised if next week's crowd at Princeton for the Harvard game is under 10K.

Speaking of attendance, IT. I hear Harvard is going to do renovation on the stadium in the near future and part of the renovation will reduce capacity to about 22k. What have you heard?

[Ivytalk]

Speaking of attendance, IT. I hear Harvard is going to do renovation on the stadium in the near future and part of the renovation will reduce capacity to about 22k. What have you heard?

I haven't heard anything about that. I can't picture a"sellout" Harvard-Yale "crowd" of a mere 22K. Maybe the renovations would reduce capacity temporarily for a year: H-Y is at your place next year.

[MR. CHICKEN]

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[Ivytalk]

19876.....17,[email protected]!

Is that a raccoon coat, Mr. Chicken?

[bulldog10jw]

I haven't heard anything about that. I can't picture a"sellout" Harvard-Yale "crowd" of a mere 22K. Maybe the renovations would reduce capacity temporarily for a year: H-Y is at your place next year.

http://dev.harvardmagazine.com/2014/03/brevia

Football facilities. As plans advance to renovate Harvard Stadium (including the addition of 350 enclosed seats and reduction of overall capacity from 30,262 spectators to 22,333)

Not my usual reading material, I must admit.

[Ivytalk]

http://dev.harvardmagazine.com/2014/03/brevia

Football facilities. As plans advance to renovate Harvard Stadium (including the addition of 350 enclosed seats and reduction of overall capacity from 30,262 spectators to 22,333)

Not my usual reading material, I must admit.

Nor mine, either. But that's just sad. Everyone apparently wants to be Princeton with the spiffy, smaller stadia. And Harvard still won't fill the place but once every two years. SMFH.

[bulldog10jw]

Nor mine, either. But that's just sad. Everyone apparently wants to be Princeton with the spiffy, smaller stadia. And Harvard still won't fill the place but once every two years. SMFH.

Didn't I read somewhere that the Stadium used to have bleachers at the scoreboard end many years ago? They could add those as temporary seats every two years.

[Ivytalk]

8,966 at Franklin Field for Penn's 18th straight win over Columbia. Must have been parents' weekend.

[ccd494]

A homecoming crowd of 7,464 watched Maine and Albany punt 16 times, go a combined 25-60 passing and combine to barely break 500 yards of total offense.

[Red & Black]

10,064 in Cheney today to watch the Eagles take on UNC.

[Grizalltheway]

25,766 in Missoula for UM's only home game in October.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Most impressive crowd of the day?

14,333 at Schoelkopf Field to see 0-3 Cornell vs 0-5 Lehigh.....

[bulldog10jw]

Most impressive crowd of the day?

14,333 at Schoelkopf Field to see 0-3 Cornell vs 0-5 Lehigh.....

Very impressive

[Sitting Bull]

10,764 at Zable for W&M/Villanova

[Skyhawk71]

6,738 at Hale Stadium, aka "The Hole" to watch UTM defeat TSU.........

[lionsrking2]

Overflow crowd of 8,766 at Strawberry Stadium saw the Southeastern Louisiana Lions defeat the Central Arkansas Bears, 41-24 ... 1,300+ over capacity.

[GABison]

18, 477 at the Fargodome vs Indiana State.

[WYCatfan]

19,677 @ Bobcat Stadium for the Weber game

[pokefan02]

Another disappointing crowd of 14,464 to see McNeese play Abilene Christian

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[CrazyCat]

19,677 @ Bobcat Stadium for the Weber game

Looks like that bumped us up to 3rd in avg. attendance

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrs9mtry7Z1r1thdeo1_400.gif

[bojeta]

Just under 11,000 watched Cal Poly ruin Sac State's Homecoming...

[Go Green]

Speaking of attendance, IT. I hear Harvard is going to do renovation on the stadium in the near future and part of the renovation will reduce capacity to about 22k. What have you heard?

I was actually at the Harvard-Lafayette game. First time I had been to Harvard Stadium in a long while.

I got to tell you--the place looked like it was crumbling and needed work in the very near future. Reminded me a lot of Palmer Stadium right before it was torn down.

Still a great place to watch a game. Hope they can keep it up.

And Dartmouth reports some 7700 fans to watch the Green allow Holy Cross to make it a game in Hanover. Can only assume that the guys were already thinking about homecoming night parties when we were up 24-6 in the middle of the fourth...

[2ram]

Nor mine, either. But that's just sad. Everyone apparently wants to be Princeton with the spiffy, smaller stadia. And Harvard still won't fill the place but once every two years. SMFH.

doesn't princeton's seat near 30k? a drop to 22k sounds drastic. that thing is concrete...

[bulldog10jw]

I was actually at the Harvard-Lafayette game. First time I had been to Harvard Stadium in a long while.



Scouting? xreadx

[ngineer]

Most impressive crowd of the day?

14,333 at Schoelkopf Field to see 0-3 Cornell vs 0-5 Lehigh.....

Not impressive. I was there and was amongst the 6,000 or so in the stands. Threat of rain may have held down the crowd, but was only about 20-30% full. Those numbers had to be total tickets sold.

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Most impressive crowd of the day?

14,333 at Schoelkopf Field to see 0-3 Cornell vs 0-5 Lehigh.....

Not impressive. I was there and was amongst the 6,000 or so in the stands. Threat of rain may have held down the crowd, but was only about 20-30% full. Those numbers had to be total tickets sold.

[Go Green]

Scouting? xreadx

Was in Boston for a family event.

Tough to scout Harvard because they've had a lot of injuries. I imagine that it's "now or never" for the Harvard guys who haven't been playing given that the Crimson has Princeton and Dartmouth in the next two weeks.

Game was fun though! Very pleasant afternoon.

[Ivytalk]

doesn't princeton's seat near 30k? a drop to 22k sounds drastic. that thing is concrete...

It seats just under 28,000.

[thebin]

How are they going to take 8K seats out of Harvard stadium without desecrating the architecture of a national historic monument? Pretty sure its a protected historical building. Furthermore Harvard is probably the only Ivy program out of the 8 that arguably does NOT need to reduce capacity at all...and that's a massive cut. They get 30K for Yale every other year do they not? Don't get me wrong, i've sat in those endzone seats and they are among the worst seats from a sightline perspective (even for endzones) you will ever sit in, but It isn't like Harvard stadium feels empty with a 10-15K crowd in anything like the way the Yale Bowl does. But does anyone know what the plan is? Put planters or something the worst of the endzone seats almost like Bucknell? 8K seems like a very drastic reduction on one of the more size-appropriate stadia in the league. Franklin Field on the other hand.....

Someone complained that Harvard is going in the direction of Princeton's smaller stadium....ironically I'd say that the biggest problem with the new Princeton stadium is it is too big for Princeton. If memory serves, the place is not much better than half full (if that) even for the Yale game every other year. And frankly the more common sub-10K crowds look terrible in that place. It may seat just under 30K but it looks like it should seat 45K because of the double decks. The effect is that place is an empty cavern for almost every single game. They should have build a mini-Palmer covered in Ivy that held about 20K since that is all they will ever reasonably need. Its one thing to play in an ancient stadium that is now too big but quite another to build one at great cost recently that you can't ever fill. A simple fix might be to remove the second deck in the endzone.