Wednesday, June 29, 2016

A Little Attention To Attendance

NCAA attendance numbers are out (LINK) and Ivy League home attendance averages look like this:
Yale 20,547
Harvard 12,799
Princeton 8,265
Cornell 8,125
Dartmouth 6,660
Penn 6,048
Columbia 5,988
Brown 4,822

• The Yale-Harvard game in New Haven drew 52,126 fans. The average for Yale's other three home games: 10,021.

Dartmouth Home Attendance Since 2010:
2010 - 5,971
2011 - 5,846
2012 - 6,402
2013 - 5,807
2014 - 5,549
2015 - 6,660

• Dartmouth's home attendance was the most since the 1999 season attracted 6,738 fans per game.

• The last Ivy League championship campaign for Dartmouth in 1996 averaged 7,195 for five home games.

Home averages for Dartmouth's recent past (*) and future opponents (#), as well as other regional teams:
Army# 30,991
Lehigh 8,409
New Hampshire*# 7,303
Towson# 6,594
Holy Cross*# 6,523
Fordham 6,499
Lafayette 6,328
Albany 5,887
Bryant 5,493
Maine 5,071
Colgate# 5,002
Butler* 3,819
Jacksonville# 3,580
Central Connecticut*# 3,427
Sacred Heart*# 3,406
Bucknell 3,256
Stetson# 3,115
Georgetown*# 2,482
Valparaiso# 2,246
Marist# 2,141

FCS conference averages:
1. SWAC 12,823
2. Missouri Valley 10,916
3. Big Sky 9,877
4. Ohio Valley 9,077
5. CAA 9,006
6. Mid-Eastern 8,937
7. Ivy League 8,865
    (Independents 7,128)
8. Southern 8,210
9. Southland 7,460
10. Big South 7,279
11. Patriot 5,575
12. Pioneer 3,441
13. Northeast 2,662

• The Ivy League was one of just three conferences to report a drop in attendance, with the average game down 337.
• The Patriot League was down 339 per game and Southland down 565.

• Montana led all FCS schools with 24,139 average home attendance.

• Duquesne had the lowest home average at 1,372.

• The only other schools reporting under 2,000 were Duquesne's fellow Northeast Conference members St. Francis (1,582) and Robert Morris (1,545).

• UMass, which opted to leave the FCS and join the FBS in 2012, averaged 11,124 at home.