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Subject: Re: Attendance

Author:
Eleazar

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Date Posted: 15:34:12 10/22/24 Tue
In reply to: voy vey 's message, "Attendance" on 10:19:08 10/21/24 Mon

I posted about this when it happened but the Dartmouth-Harvard game in Cambridge last year drew 22,515 (largest for a non Yale game there since 2009). The atmosphere has been great for this game in Cambridge the last few times and the tailgate scene in particular this last time was outstanding.

Now as GG noted, there are a lot of contributing factors. For one thing the teams have been competitive in League play. The Dartmouth game has been Harvard’s parents weekend the last few years (I think), and they have a “fan fest” going which has family friendly activities. But worth noting Dartmouth has a TOTAL of roughly 7,000 alumni in all of eastern MA (including the grad schools). So it definitely helps having those bus loads of…enthusiastic…undergrads come down, throw in some big marketing efforts, and get the local alumni boosters/clubs to spread the word on tailgating. Also, the weather was perfect.

But my optimistic takeaway is that it can be done even with a small liberal arts school in the 21st century! A lot of things have to work out to make for a great game day atmosphere nowadays but we might hope some of these excellent weather games should still be 10k+.

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[> [> Subject: Gotta Start The Season The Saturday After Labor Day

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An Observer
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Date Posted: 15:55:25 10/22/24 Tue

Eleazar, your point is another reason to start the Ivy football season the Saturday after Labor Day. I know that some alumni seem to think that The Game **NEEDS** to be on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

Why?

Because it always has been? No, it has not always been. The Princeton game was the season finale for the first half-century of college football. Harvard was the weekend before. The earth kept spinning.

Start the Saturday after Labor Day. Get more games with good weather and all the attendant benefits on the game day experience thereof.

Get two more games in before we lose Daylight Savings Time, helping us start games at 1:00 or 3:00, which makes it easier for local families to attend after Junior finishes his or her Saturday youth soccer game.

It's much easier to schedule OOC games before other conferences get into the heart of the league schedule.

Finish on the second Saturday of November, helping all of us to avoid season finales in the snows of Hanover or Ithaca, thank you very much.

Last but not least, this allows all of our football teams to start camp earlier in August. This allows student-athletes to attend more classes when the other kids show up on campus right after Labor Day. Remember going to class?

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[> [> [> Subject: And add an 11th game
Author: bulldog10jw [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:19:54 10/22/24 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ]