That’s a pretty impressive family tradition in the net!MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 6:16 pmIf I understand correctly, as my dad was growing up 2 blocks away ('30's and 40's) and then playing on that field for UVA, the biggest sporting events in Baltimore outside of special occasion horse racing events were lacrosse games at Homewood...pro sports hadn't yet kicked into larger events.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 5:05 pmYep. Between 1929 and 1951, Harvard Stadium had a capacity of more than 57,000. It’s just 30,000 or so today. Of course, what else are you going to do on a Saturday afternoon during the Great Depression with no television or cable or streaming services?MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 2:49 pmSaturday afternoon games in April would be nice...Tuesday nights in February and early March, not so great...HopFan16 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:29 pmStudents are NEVER coming back the way that they used to. A lot has changed since then. It just isn't happening. I would count your blessings. Hopkins is still routinely in the top 5 in attendance per game in the country, even throughout the most recent period of mediocrity. Other schools have much bigger attendance issues.jhu06 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:26 am watching the uva and duke videos I see so many students I went to school with at the time. We were behind those guys strongly and every week there'd be a huge line to pick up our tickets at the athletic department offices to go see them. Jamison knows what those days were like and what a roaring homewood student section felt like. Hopefully he, PM, and the athletics folks can get the students and community back to full homewoods next spring.
Doesn't mean student attendance can't or won't improve at all. You know what the best thing would be? Winning. And nice weather. If the team is good, and the weather is nice, the kids will come.
Agreed, re all the dynamics...just look at the turnout trends for Memorial Day weekend.
Ivies have had plummeting turnout for their football games, not so much I think because of the emergence of soccer, but rather because they lost their appeal as the signature social event for the weekend...don't see that same dynamic at the big football schools where it continues to be a party with as much attention to the parking lot as what happens on the field.
In the 1980s, Homewood Field would draw nearly 10,000 spectators for the Hopkins-Syracuse game, because in those days that was the only way you could watch a regular season Hopkins-Syracuse game (except maybe the occasional local TV station broadcast).
These days, a Hopkins-Syracuse lacrosse game on ESPNU or ESPN3 may draw 20-30,000 viewers (maybe more). Diddly squat by sports cable standards, but far larger than the audience at Homewood (or the Dome) back in the day.
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Have a triptych framed black and white of him in the net at Homewood in '52 courtesy of Sunpapers, the year UVA won their first NC, then me in net for Dartmouth 1980, and then my son in net for Harvard in 2015...pretty cool...
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