They said that was the largest since 2013. Many times over the years on this message board I have said back in the 70s there were games that had at least 6000. Well I think I was wrong since I checked the vindy archives and saw the 1976 win against Pitt had only 5200 and the 1977 d2 NCAA game vs Randolph Macon only had 4k.
I was a teenager then and the eye test looked packed but it was neat looking back at the old Vindicator articles.