Attendance

A recent posting on STATS notes that college football attendance was down last year, with smaller divisions suffering the biggest drop-off:

FBS: Down 0.8 percent
FCS: Down 4.5 percent
DII: Down 6 percent
DIII: Down 9 percent

Ivy League Home Attendance Trend 2018 (2017) [2010]
Harvard 9,842 (10,4110) [16,918]
Penn 7,768 (5,275) [11,926]
Yale 7,657 (18,940) [14,592]
Princeton 7,245 (7,366) [7,725]
Cornell 5,824 (6,793) [6,878]
Columbia 5,687 (6,672) [5,192]
Brown 4,113 (2,999) [7,970]
Dartmouth 4,007 (5,512) [5,971]

Dartmouth's listed home attendance since 2000:
2018 – 4,007
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

Dartmouth 5-year home attendance:
1995 – 5,797
1990 – 7,482
1985 – 9,405
1980 – 12,725
1975 – 12,150
1970 – 13,148

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Y-Yo Ma's Dartmouth commencement address:

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That Certain Dartmouth '14 is back from the American West for her fifth reunion this week and rather than attend graduation we took advantage of another brilliant day to drive north to have lunch and spend a little time strolling in Magog, Quebec on beautiful Lake Memphremagog. It may surprise you to know that the drive to the French-speaking town is actually a few minutes shorter (and a lot more pleasant) than the drive to Boston's Logan airport.

Magog is about a half hour across the border.

While pretty much all you will hear as you stroll down Parc de la Pointe-Merry (the waterfront park) is French, all the merchants and waitstaff on Rue Principale and elsewhere quickly switch to charmingly accented English if need be.

If you are in town this fall, the trip up I-91 couldn't be easier and is highly recommended. Along the way you'll pass this sign:

Here's where we ate lunch.

Read about Magog, where you can practice your high school French, HERE.

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And finally, the 6 a.m. news out of Burlington today reported that if the rain predicted for later today doesn't come until after midnight we'll have our first four-day stretch without measurable precipitation since mid-September. Given what's happened around the rest of the country I guess we shouldn't complain.