Cornell used to be one of the best programs in college football, with the program staking out claims to five national championships between 1915-1937.
Well, Cornell isn't the football program it used to be, as it is with nearly all of the Ivy League schools. Cornell has had it worse than the others, though, as the Big Red haven't had an over-.500 season since 2005. Cornell struggled to get over 6,000 per game in attendance in 2014, far below their stadium's capacity of 27,000. So far below, in fact, that the school is tearing down about half of its stadium due to "underuse and potential safety hazards".
While Cornell is only an FCS program, it is still a rather big deal that one of the oldest programs is college football — one whose lineage goes back to the 1880s — is tearing down a large portion of a 27,000 seat stadium due to underuse.
Cornell has no plans to replace the West stands that they are tearing down. The stands were erected back in the 1940s, raising the capacity to what was 27,000 before the current demolition.
