A Game of Numbers

Keeping track of what takes place on the gridiron is one way to look at a football season. But even before the players take the field, a different set of numbers has a story to tell.

20,416 Maximum seating capacity of Memorial Field

15,000 Weight, in pounds, of filthy jerseys laundered by College staff during football season

6,738 Average home game attendance during the 1999 season

1,430 Average number of hot dogs sold at each home game

1,275 Average number of Cokes sold at each home game

450 Approximate number of plays in the Dartmouth playbook

225 Average weight, in pounds, of players on the Dartmouth team

108 Number of players on the 2000 Dartmouth football team (17 seniors, 31 juniors, 27 sophomores, 33 freshmen)

70 Average number of musicians mustered by the Dartmouth Marching Band for its halftime show

61.2 Dartmouth's all-time winning percentage, dating back to 1881 (624 wins, 350 losses and 46 ties)

34 Man-hours needed to mark the field before every home game

20 Number of head coaches in 119 years of Dartmouth football

17 Number of times Dartmouth has won the Ivy League football championship, most of any team since the league's inception in 1956

6 Number of footballs used during one game

1 Number of points scored by Dartmouth at its first-ever football game, played against Amherst on November 12,1881