Attendance at Crimson varsity football games jumped 60 percent this year, according to figures released recently by the Ivy League Athletic Association. The increase, from 71,000 to 114,203 spectators, represented the largest attendance rise in the Ivy League this fall.
Yale had the highest total attendance for the second straight year, attracting 236,000 spectators for eight games in 1955 and 233,824 in seven games this year.
Total figures for the Ivy League indicated an overall increase in fans of 5 percent. This season's Ivy games averaged crowds of 20,647 as opposed to 18,600 last year. Playing fewer games in 1955, Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth showed slight attendance drops in 1956.
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