Lack of support for Cornell sports teams

[CU2007]

How many people watch crew other than close friends and Alums for almost a whole career of racing.

Its no different than many other college sports.. Im sure squash has a huge following.  club hockey,  

The womans hockey team when #1 still had a few hundred people showing up many games.

and Crew is the hardest sport to really watch if not on TV..

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed.  And men wore three-piece suits and bowlers or derbies or straw hats to baseball games.  Today:  What's a derby?

I would have attended this when I was in college!

[Scersk '97]

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed.

Back in the day, betting on crew races was widespread; thus, trains and breathless newspaper accounts.

[dbilmes]

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed.

Back in the day, betting on crew races was widespread; thus, trains and breathless newspaper accounts.

Now that sports gambling has become legal in so many states, and millions of people have gambling apps on their devices, perhaps this will spark a resurgence in betting on crew and the crowds will return.

[Al DeFlorio]

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed.

Back in the day, betting on crew races was widespread; thus, trains and breathless newspaper accounts.

Now that sports gambling has become legal in so many states, and millions of people have gambling apps on their devices, perhaps this will spark a resurgence in betting on crew and the crowds will return.

I'd bet against that, but I don't have the app.

[billhoward]

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed.  And men wore three-piece suits and bowlers or derbies or straw hats to baseball games.  Today:  What's a derby?

Back in the day is now more like back in the century.

I didn't know a drone followed the shells. That's cool. Makes sense. Maybe put a GoPro on the jockey, too. Sorry, cox.

Can women be the coxwains of the men's shells? That'd offset a couple more guys on the men's football roster. As I believe it is with football trainers.

[Al DeFlorio]

Can women be the coxwains of the men's shells?

Many are.

[George64]

Back in the day, the viewing train that followed the race was packed . . .
 

[upprdeck]

of course back in the day there were only about 2-3 sports to watch and no tv video games.. people turned out huge for bike races as well.

[jtwcornell91]

How many people watch crew other than close friends and Alums for almost a whole career of racing.

Its no different than many other college sports.. Im sure squash has a huge following.  club hockey,  

The womans hockey team when #1 still had a few hundred people showing up many games.

and Crew is the hardest sport to really watch if not on TV..

Back when I was visiting Cambridge as a graduate student, some of us went to London for the Boat Race.  Four hours of standing around in a huge crowd for two 40-second intervals when the boats went by.  (The second-string boats from each school also had a race.)