do a lot of people go to the basketball and football games?
Penn-Princeton basketball is popular among alumni, but the two games are during spring and winter break, so unfortunately, they aren’t popular among students as most students are not on-campus. This may change with the Ivy League Tournament starting next year, as the second matchup would take place the Tuesday before the tournament with the current schedule, so the second game may potentially be moved to earlier in the season when students will be around.
Football is very popular. “A lot” attend relative to other home games besides homecoming, and normally Penn Athletics will organize a bus for students to travel to Princeton when it’s an away game. That said, we will never fill up all of Franklin Field. We aren’t getting the kind of attendance that Penn Relays gets or that the Eagles received when they played in Franklin.
Franklin Field seats about 53,000 people. The entire undergraduate student bodies of Penn and Princeton combined are about 15,000. Obviously, in the major Division I conferences they fill stadiums with up to 100,000 capacity, but both the quality of the football and the size of the student bodies and nearby alumni communities are much, much higher.