THE names were falling off pro football rosters like so many ornaments from an abandoned Christmas tree.

Mount Union has a football roster of 160 and a male student body of 940, which means that roughly one of every six men on campus plays football.

Moreover, football rosters could be capped at no more than 90 to generate further savings.

It has 2,300 students, about half of them men, and 200 of those men are on the football roster.

Rowan is a member of the New Jersey Athletic Conference, which limits its members' football rosters to 100 players.

Both were on the football roster at McPherson for the previous year, and Franklin was listed as a sophomore linebacker at the beginning of the 2012 season.

All numbers are from www.purduesports.com who late updated the football roster on March 6, 2012.

The average football roster, across the three divisions of N.C.A.A. play, has jumped to 94 players in 2001 from 81.6 players in 1981.

He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1930 where he was on the football roster for parts of five seasons from 1931 to 1935.

Six years later, Shenandoah still has a football roster of roughly 100, most of them paying nearly full tuition of more than $26,000 a year, including room and board.