This shot from running backs coach Danny O'Dea's Twitter account shows hard-working players gearing up for spring football in another month . . .
Funday Friday! Competing in #TheWoods 🌲🏆🌲 For the love of the game! pic.twitter.com/M8ujOoNXtQ
— Danny O'Dea (@coachirishodea) February 26, 2022
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“We want a great football player at football time, a great student during academic times, and a great person all the time."
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And now for some totally random trivia. Here are the largest and smallest crowds to take in a game at Memorial Field for each year since Buddy Teevens returned to Hanover in 2005:
2021
Yale, 10,079
Cornell, 3,245
2019
Yale, 8,796
Cornell, 3,245
2018
Harvard, 5,814
Brown 2,575
2017
Yale, 8,114
Princeton, 3,081
2016
New Hampshire, 8,296
Towson, 3,124
2015
Yale, 11,086
Cornell, 3,930
2014
Holy Cross, 7,335
Penn, 3,288
2013
Yale, 10,983
Columbia, 3,142
2012
Harvard, 10,138
Brown, 3,439
2011
Columbia, 8,362
Cornell, 3,137
2010
Harvard, 9,142
Brown, 3,814
2009
Colgate, 5,073
Penn, 3,623
2008
Holy Cross, 7,518
Brown, 2,215
2007
Columbia, 8,720
Cornell, 3,711
2006
Holy Cross, 7,414
Harvard, 2,028
2005
Penn, 6,710
Colgate, 3,917
And for a little perspective . . .
1980
Harvard, 20,400
Columbia, 6,108
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EXTRA POINT
Two mornings ago, after a fresh snowfall, I looked out the window and saw a half dozen or so places the size of a small dinner table where the snow had been distinctly flattened. Deer tracks led to, and away from the kidney-shaped depressions and I was pretty sure it was where the animals had bedded down with the warmth of their bodies melting down to the grass.
Last evening we saw five deer browsing around our apple trees before a light snow started to fall. This morning we awoke to see clear evidence that deer had again spent the night curled up within 50 feet of our house. This photo doesn't really do the scene justice but suffice it to say there's a completely smooth blanket of snow everywhere in our field except for six or eight separate areas where it would seem the deer spent the night.
