'47 Season Features Bigger Grid Crowds

College football teams have been playing to bigger crowds in 1947 than in 1946, an Associated Press nation-wide survey of attendance figures revealed last night.

Four schools have averaged better than 70,000 per home game. On the coast they are Southern California and California, both recently returned to the ranks of the nation's football leaders. TEAMS  1947  1946 Columbia  93,000 (3)  82,000 (3) Dartmouth  22,000 (2)  30,000 (2) Harvard*  102,838 (4)  72,738 (4) Princeton  89,000 (3)  100,000 (4) Yale  148,000 (4)  144,000 (4) *Does not include Rutgers game Figures in parentheses denote number of home games.