Jun 13, 2016
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| St. John's routinely plays in front of large crowds, including ones that pack the natural bowl hillside wichh surrounds the Clemens Stadium field. But no crowd has routinely been larger than St. John's home games vs. St. Thomas. Photo by Scott Pierson, d3photography.com |
Bolstered by the largest recorded attendance for a football game in Division III history, St. John's led Division III in football attendance for the 14th time in 15 seasons.
St. John's drew an average of 7,625 fans for its seven home games. That included the Tommie-Johnnie archrivalry game with St. John's on Sept. 26, which featured an announced crowd of 17,327.
The NCAA does not track single-game attendance records in Division III football. Attendance counts are self-reported and most often are estimates rather than actual head counts.
With four schools in the top 12 in attendance, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference led conferences in attendance by nearly 500 fans. MIAC schools averaged 3,286 fans for home games, while the American Southwest Conference was second at 2,791 and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference finished third, with 2,771.
The full list of school-by-school attendance from 2015:
| School | G | Attendance | Average |
| St. John's | 7 | 53,372 | 7,625 |
| UW-Whitewater | 6 | 36,734 | 6,122 |
| Emory & Henry | 5 | 27,481 | 5,496 |
| Geneva | 5 | 23,986 | 4,797 |
| Hampden-Sydney | 5 | 23,550 | 4,710 |
| Concordia-Moorhead | 5 | 21,697 | 4,339 |
| McDaniel | 6 | 24,482 | 4,080 |
| Christopher Newport | 5 | 20,053 | 4,011 |
| Trine | 5 | 20,039 | 4,008 |
| St. Thomas | 9 | 35,376 | 3,931 |
| Ursinus | 4 | 15,472 | 3,868 |
| Bethel | 5 | 18,933 | 3,787 |
| Tufts | 4 | 14,600 | 3,650 |
| Maryville | 5 | 18,179 | 3,636 |
| Sewanee | 5 | 17,929 | 3,586 |
| Wartburg | 5 | 17,000 | 3,400 |
| Baldwin Wallace | 5 | 16,710 | 3,342 |
| Coe | 5 | 16,522 | 3,304 |
| Louisiana College | 3 | 9,843 | 3,281 |
| North Central (Ill.) | 5 | 16,400 | 3,280 |
| Albright | 6 | 19,512 | 3,252 |
| Franklin | 6 | 19,470 | 3,245 |
| UW-Platteville | 6 | 19,334 | 3,222 |
| Ithaca | 5 | 15,920 | 3,184 |
| Albion | 5 | 15,809 | 3,162 |
| Randolph-Macon | 5 | 15,790 | 3,158 |
| Mary Hardin-Baylor | 8 | 24,748 | 3,094 |
| Berry | 5 | 15,299 | 3,060 |
| Chapman | 5 | 14,951 | 2,990 |
| Hardin-Simmons | 6 | 17,919 | 2,987 |
| Wabash | 7 | 20,899 | 2,986 |
| DePauw | 5 | 14,815 | 2,963 |
| Trinity (Conn.) | 4 | 11,767 | 2,942 |
| St. John Fisher | 5 | 14,555 | 2,911 |
| Buena Vista | 4 | 11,635 | 2,909 |
| Dubuque | 5 | 14,485 | 2,897 |
| George Fox | 4 | 11,584 | 2,896 |
| Brockport | 5 | 14,250 | 2,850 |
| Rowan | 4 | 11,334 | 2,834 |
| Susquehanna | 5 | 14,077 | 2,815 |
| Millikin | 5 | 14,000 | 2,800 |
| John Carroll | 4 | 11,036 | 2,759 |
| Mount Union | 10 | 27,439 | 2,744 |
| Widener | 6 | 16,250 | 2,708 |
| Howard Payne | 6 | 16,150 | 2,692 |
| Catholic | 5 | 13,210 | 2,642 |
| UW-La Crosse | 4 | 10,530 | 2,633 |
| Ohio Northern | 6 | 15,656 | 2,609 |
| Castleton | 5 | 13,005 | 2,601 |
| UW-Eau Claire | 6 | 15,599 | 2,600 |
| Washington & Jefferson | 5 | 12,943 | 2,589 |
| Capital | 5 | 12,927 | 2,585 |
| Cal Lutheran | 4 | 10,310 | 2,578 |
| Wesleyan | 4 | 10,296 | 2,574 |
| Wittenberg | 5 | 12,604 | 2,521 |
| Muhlenberg | 6 | 15,057 | 2,510 |
| Fitchburg State | 5 | 12,492 | 2,498 |
| King's | 5 | 12,442 | 2,488 |
| Loras | 6 | 14,786 | 2,464 |
| Grove City | 5 | 12,300 | 2,460 |
| Thomas More | 7 | 17,162 | 2,452 |
| Lebanon Valley | 5 | 12,210 | 2,442 |
| Coast Guard | 5 | 12,147 | 2,429 |
| Middlebury | 4 | 9,655 | 2,414 |
| Olivet | 5 | 12,067 | 2,413 |
| East Texas Baptist | 5 | 11,982 | 2,396 |
| Gettysburg | 5 | 11,846 | 2,369 |
| Carroll | 5 | 11,815 | 2,363 |
| Dickinson | 5 | 11,760 | 2,352 |
| Pacific | 4 | 8,964 | 2,241 |
| Southwestern | 5 | 11,184 | 2,237 |
| Ohio Wesleyan | 5 | 11,088 | 2,218 |
| Adrian | 5 | 11,050 | 2,210 |
| Simpson | 5 | 11,051 | 2,210 |
| Wilmington | 5 | 11,024 | 2,205 |
| Gustavus Adolphus | 5 | 11,011 | 2,202 |
| Bowdoin | 4 | 8,713 | 2,178 |
| Sul Ross State | 4 | 8,661 | 2,165 |
| Wheaton (Ill.) | 7 | 15,085 | 2,155 |
| WPI | 5 | 10,721 | 2,144 |
| Montclair State | 5 | 10,566 | 2,113 |
| Heidelberg | 5 | 10,456 | 2,091 |
| Linfield | 8 | 16,726 | 2,091 |
| Wooster | 5 | 10,413 | 2,083 |
| Texas Lutheran | 5 | 10,340 | 2,068 |
| Central | 4 | 8,250 | 2,063 |
| Denison | 5 | 10,232 | 2,046 |
| Otterbein | 5 | 10,178 | 2,036 |
| Birmingham-Southern | 5 | 10,134 | 2,027 |
| Millsaps | 5 | 10,075 | 2,015 |
| Centre | 5 | 10,061 | 2,012 |
| Lycoming | 5 | 9,891 | 1,978 |
| Redlands | 3 | 5,913 | 1,971 |
| Bridgewater (Va.) | 5 | 9,832 | 1,966 |
| Huntingdon | 6 | 11,781 | 1,964 |
| UW-Stevens Point | 5 | 9,789 | 1,958 |
| Delaware Valley | 6 | 11,637 | 1,940 |
| Alfred | 5 | 9,623 | 1,925 |
| Hamline | 5 | 9,573 | 1,915 |
| Stevenson | 5 | 9,513 | 1,903 |
| Utica | 5 | 9,492 | 1,898 |
| Juniata | 5 | 9,450 | 1,890 |
| Trinity (Texas) | 6 | 11,279 | 1,880 |
| Kean | 5 | 9,313 | 1,863 |
| UW-Oshkosh | 9 | 16,610 | 1,846 |
| Western New England | 5 | 9,201 | 1,840 |
| Westfield State | 5 | 9,054 | 1,811 |
| Hendrix | 5 | 8,972 | 1,794 |
| Rhodes | 6 | 10,695 | 1,783 |
| North Park | 5 | 8,757 | 1,751 |
| Guilford | 5 | 8,745 | 1,749 |
| Bates | 4 | 6,956 | 1,739 |
| Puget Sound | 5 | 8,689 | 1,738 |
| Whitworth | 6 | 10,416 | 1,736 |
| Bluffton | 5 | 8,650 | 1,730 |
| Maine Maritime | 4 | 6,898 | 1,725 |
| Franklin & Marshall | 5 | 8,611 | 1,722 |
| Springfield | 5 | 8,569 | 1,714 |
| Moravian | 5 | 8,549 | 1,710 |
| Northwestern (Minn.) | 5 | 8,454 | 1,691 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 6 | 10,125 | 1,688 |
| Occidental | 5 | 8,431 | 1,686 |
| Marietta | 5 | 8,427 | 1,685 |
| Pacific Lutheran | 4 | 6,684 | 1,671 |
| Framingham State | 5 | 8,334 | 1,667 |
| Williams | 4 | 6,661 | 1,665 |
| Rose-Hulman | 5 | 8,300 | 1,660 |
| Hope | 5 | 8,293 | 1,659 |
| Morrisville State | 5 | 8,177 | 1,635 |
| Cortland | 6 | 9,660 | 1,610 |
| UW-Stout | 5 | 8,051 | 1,610 |
| Case Western Reserve | 5 | 7,994 | 1,599 |
| Willamette | 5 | 7,989 | 1,598 |
| Alma | 4 | 6,374 | 1,594 |
| Muskingum | 5 | 7,929 | 1,586 |
| St. Lawrence | 5 | 7,913 | 1,583 |
| Rochester | 5 | 7,850 | 1,570 |
| Merchant Marine | 5 | 7,805 | 1,561 |
| St. Norbert | 5 | 7,790 | 1,558 |
| Frostburg State | 4 | 6,223 | 1,556 |
| Shenandoah | 5 | 7,767 | 1,553 |
| Wesley | 6 | 9,255 | 1,543 |
| Knox | 4 | 6,100 | 1,525 |
| Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 4 | 6,078 | 1,520 |
| Eureka | 5 | 7,571 | 1,514 |
| Illinois Wesleyan | 5 | 7,550 | 1,510 |
| Augustana | 6 | 8,925 | 1,488 |
| Hamilton | 4 | 5,916 | 1,479 |
| Amherst | 4 | 5,870 | 1,468 |
| Colby | 4 | 5,800 | 1,450 |
| Massachusetts Maritime | 5 | 7,236 | 1,447 |
| Benedictine | 5 | 7,120 | 1,424 |
| Monmouth | 5 | 7,100 | 1,420 |
| Waynesburg | 4 | 5,655 | 1,414 |
| Salisbury | 5 | 7,060 | 1,412 |
| Luther | 5 | 7,020 | 1,404 |
| Illinois College | 4 | 5,566 | 1,392 |
| La Verne | 5 | 6,955 | 1,391 |
| Bridgewater State | 5 | 6,817 | 1,363 |
| Augsburg | 5 | 6,801 | 1,360 |
| FDU-Florham | 5 | 6,717 | 1,343 |
| Becker | 4 | 5,281 | 1,320 |
| Misericordia | 5 | 6,600 | 1,320 |
| Washington U. | 5 | 6,547 | 1,309 |
| LaGrange | 5 | 6,518 | 1,304 |
| Western Connecticut | 5 | 6,448 | 1,290 |
| Mass-Dartmouth | 5 | 6,400 | 1,280 |
| Manchester | 4 | 5,110 | 1,278 |
| Union | 5 | 6,391 | 1,278 |
| Lewis & Clark | 5 | 6,369 | 1,274 |
| Carthage | 5 | 6,350 | 1,270 |
| Westminster (Pa.) | 4 | 5,073 | 1,268 |
| Rensselaer | 5 | 6,319 | 1,264 |
| Ripon | 5 | 6,321 | 1,264 |
| Elmhurst | 5 | 6,173 | 1,235 |
| Greensboro | 5 | 6,171 | 1,234 |
| Washington & Lee | 6 | 7,241 | 1,207 |
| Johns Hopkins | 7 | 8,410 | 1,201 |
| Beloit | 5 | 6,000 | 1,200 |
| Whittier | 4 | 4,794 | 1,199 |
| Anderson | 5 | 5,960 | 1,192 |
| Nichols | 5 | 5,925 | 1,185 |
| Austin | 4 | 4,713 | 1,178 |
| Wilkes | 4 | 4,702 | 1,176 |
| Curry | 5 | 5,807 | 1,161 |
| Carleton | 5 | 5,801 | 1,160 |
| Averett | 4 | 4,600 | 1,150 |
| Kalamazoo | 4 | 4,598 | 1,150 |
| Mount St. Joseph | 5 | 5,682 | 1,136 |
| UW-River Falls | 4 | 4,501 | 1,125 |
| Norwich | 5 | 5,382 | 1,076 |
| Defiance | 4 | 4,278 | 1,070 |
| Cornell | 5 | 5,340 | 1,068 |
| Thiel | 5 | 5,256 | 1,051 |
| Buffalo St. | 5 | 5,176 | 1,035 |
| Methodist | 5 | 5,158 | 1,032 |
| Lawrence | 6 | 6,183 | 1,031 |
| Lake Forest | 5 | 5,095 | 1,019 |
| St. Olaf | 5 | 5,018 | 1,004 |
| Concordia (Wis.) | 5 | 5,008 | 1,002 |
| Allegheny | 5 | 4,883 | 977 |
| Gallaudet | 4 | 3,884 | 971 |
| St. Vincent | 6 | 5,696 | 949 |
| Plymouth State | 5 | 4,650 | 930 |
| Hobart | 4 | 3,699 | 925 |
| Macalester | 6 | 5,445 | 908 |
| Hiram | 5 | 4,519 | 904 |
| SUNY-Maritime | 5 | 4,514 | 903 |
| Chicago | 5 | 4,317 | 863 |
| Endicott | 5 | 4,317 | 863 |
| Lakeland | 5 | 4,290 | 858 |
| N.C. Wesleyan | 6 | 5,123 | 854 |
| Hanover | 5 | 4,244 | 849 |
| St. Scholastica | 5 | 4,176 | 835 |
| Husson | 5 | 4,153 | 831 |
| William Paterson | 5 | 4,130 | 826 |
| Oberlin | 5 | 3,980 | 796 |
| MIT | 4 | 3,157 | 789 |
| Bethany | 5 | 3,911 | 782 |
| Anna Maria | 5 | 3,755 | 751 |
| TCNJ | 5 | 3,742 | 748 |
| Rockford | 5 | 3,720 | 744 |
| Salve Regina | 6 | 4,434 | 739 |
| Ferrum | 6 | 4,390 | 732 |
| Minnesota-Morris | 4 | 2,906 | 727 |
| Wis. Lutheran | 5 | 3,512 | 702 |
| Kenyon | 5 | 3,405 | 681 |
| Worcester State | 5 | 3,384 | 677 |
| Greenville | 5 | 3,300 | 660 |
| Aurora | 6 | 3,884 | 647 |
| Finlandia | 5 | 3,167 | 633 |
| Earlham | 5 | 2,890 | 578 |
| Hartwick | 6 | 3,332 | 555 |
| Mount Ida | 5 | 2,739 | 548 |
| Crown | 5 | 2,582 | 516 |
| Concordia-Chicago | 6 | 3,000 | 500 |
| Westminster (Mo.) | 5 | 1,750 | 350 |
| Pomona-Pitzer | 5 | 1,662 | 332 |
| Martin Luther | 6 | 1,950 | 325 |
| Maranatha Baptist | 3 | 815 | 272 |
| Grinnell | 5 | 1,333 | 267 |
| MacMurray | 5 | 1,336 | 267 |