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On Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:04:50
Leigh Torbin wrote:
Students Athletes # of Sports difference in # of
School %M %F %M %F M F male athletes/stu.
Boston College 47.0 53.0 61.0 39.0 17 16 +14%
Boston Univ. 48.0 52.0 60.0 40.0 13 9 +12%
Maine 53.4 46.6 61.0 39.0 10 9 +6.6%
Massachusetts 52.0 48.0 54.0 46.0 14 15 +2%
New Hampshire 43.0 57.0 56.0 44.0 13 14 +13%
Northeastern 57.0 43.0 65.5 34.5 12 10 +7.5%
ECAC
Brown 51.0 49.0 61.0 39.0 16 17 +10%
Dartmouth 53.0 47.0 57.0 43.0 20* 20* +4%
Harvard 57.5 42.5 62.0 38.0 21 20 +4.5%
Vermont 47.2 52.8 54.0 46.0 13 13 +6.8%
** Providence and Yale did not respond, UMass-Lowell and Merrimack
apparently were not queried by the Globe.
What worries me are BC, BU and UNH. All three have greater than a
12% gap in their two percentages. BC and BU each have over sixty percent
of their athletes male, while they are a minority overall in the student
body. Somebody better keep this from the guys in Overland Park, Kansas,
because this could be trouble.
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UMass-Lowell and Merrimack were not part of the survey because it only
involved those New England schools which are predominantly D1.
I believe that part of the problem with BC's +14% is that it is the only
school which fields a D-1A football team. This team, I can only
speculate, probably fields more athletes than any other 2 female teams at
the school combined. BU may have the same problem, although I doubt they
field as many players on their football team.
UNH has one more female sport than male, although their plus 13% is
rather large. Once again I think this has to do with the amount of
athletes required for fielding a competitive team in several
different sports. Women's sports such as Volleyball and Gymnastics do
not hold themselves to a 70+ person roster in order to field a
successful team.
With the addition of 2-3 women's teams I think you will see BU's
percentage rate drop quite a bit. The disparity in the number of sports
offered by BU is what should be their main concern.
Jeff
"Quick decision's win you games and lose you championship's"-D.McCarthy
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