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Subject: Ivy attendance continues to drop

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Date Posted: 10:21:53 11/25/25 Tue
In reply to: InwoodTiger 's message, "Impressive attendance at The Game" on 12:40:06 11/24/25 Mon

Inwood Tiger aptly describes Ivy attendance as reaching high school levels.

Average attendance for in-conference games (excluding the outlier Y-H which heavily skews the numbers), since the current home/away rotations came into effect in 2018:

........2018 - 6,791
2019 - 7,224
2021 - 6,173
........2022 - 6,825
2023 - 6,304
........2024 - 6,272
2025 - 5,673

Comparisons should be made even-to-even years and odd-to-odd, as the venues are the same. That's why I staggered the table.

Attendance this year dropped 10% from 2023. Cumulative drop since 2019 is over 20%.
And we didn't even have any horrible weather games this year.

Games over 10k (excluding Y-H) -
Brown @ Harvard (Saturday night) - 16,283
Penn @ Columbia - 12,704
Dartmouth @ Harvard - 11,334
Cornell @ Penn - 10,914

Games under 3k -
Dartmouth @ Brown - 1,463
Brown @ Penn - 1,458

Friday night games average: 3,901
Saturday afternoon games average: 5,589

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[> [> Subject: Re: Ivy attendance continues to drop
Author: Harvard Crimson Rule! [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:09:16 11/26/25 Wed It's going to be difficult to reverse this trend. Students have so many other social attractions and activities to choose from today.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Ivy attendance continues to drop
Author: Ivy wanna be [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:14:53 11/26/25 Wed The students never have embraced the culture of sports. You have to reach out to the surrounding areas of the community. You have to start them young. Elementary school, Church, Pop Warner Football, you have to be gracious and inviting. Give them a reason to come back. Students!!

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Ivy attendance continues to drop
Author: observer [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:05:29 11/28/25 Fri Not true. There are student college football fans on campus - but they're watching Ohio State/Michigan in the dorms. And Duke/UNC on ESPN. And betting on their phones. The non-sports fans on campus (of which there is a large majority) couldn't be bothered to get to Yale Bowl even if gifted a free Tesla.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: I should have stayed for Yale,
Author: Ivy wanna be [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:49:24 11/28/25 Fri Others Wouldn’t understand, reason being Yale always had a decent following. When the students come , its. The majority of for just the Harvard game. I’m talking of a more sustainable long term solution.

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: that should have been I should have stated for Yale,
Author: Ivy wanna be [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 05:12:47 11/29/25 Sat