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Originally Posted by Titchou
Checking this on various web sites I find that:
1) Beaver Stadium seats 106,572
2) Fall 2013 enrollment on the University Park campus is 46,184.
I really have a hard time with the concepts that:
a) The stadium would be reserved for only students
b) That enough other students could be found to get the attendance of students only to over 100,000
Perhaps you misspoke?
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I didn't go to Penn State, but I have attended a few games, and I can attest that all of the seats that aren't taken up by students are filled by alumni and other interested parties.
When I first moved to PA, a lot of the people I met were PSU alumni and they were RELENTLESS in when it came to PSU football and making sure they got tickets because "I gotta go back for football games!!!1!!!" Never mind that it's a 4 hour or so drive from Philly. Not coming from a big football school, I couldn't figure out WHY you would want to drive 8 hours every weekend for a college football game. I swore that PSU must implant each freshman with a homing chip which is activated to bring them all back to Happy Valley each football season after graduation.
Then I went to a game myself and.. whoa. The giant RVs... the massive tailgating area.. the PSU swag everywhere.. the traffic to get into the stadium.. I'd never seen anything like it. And it was FUN! Made me wish I'd gone there, in fact!
