Dartmouth at Tufts
Saturday, November 17, 1917 Share
Tufts beat Dartmouth 27–0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 9–1.
FinalHigh 54°F, low 32°F
In the newspapers

New-York tribune, New York, November 18, 1917, page 20
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Tufts Springs Surprise By Defeating Dartmouth MANCHESTER, N. H., Nov. H. Tufts furnished a surprise to New England football followers to-day by refeating Dartmouth 81 to 0. Captain Drummey of Tufts circled the Dart mouth ends for q touchdown and threw forward passes to Jochim and Mitchell. Tie line-un:

The Richmond Virginian, Richmond, Va., November 18, 1917, page 5 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS At Philadelphia: Pennsylvania. 1si Michigan. 0. At New York: Columbia. 0, wesleyan, 6. AT Hobokens Stevens. O; New York university. 6. At Manchester: Dartmouth, 0: Tufts, 27. At Ithaca: Cornell, 8; Fordhan, 81. At Williamtowni williams, 40: Am herst. o. At West Point, Army. so. Lebanon. 0. At Annapolis: Navy. 30, villa nova, 3. At Pittsburg: Ptttshurs. 81: carnsgle Tech. 0. At rairmount. w. VAT Washing ton and Jefferson. o:-west Virginia, Z. At Syracuse: Syracuse, At; Col gate, I. At Harrisburg, Gettysburg, o: BuckneIi. 9. At Exeter: Andover, o; H.xater, 8. AT Columbus: Ohio state. IL: Ilftnois. o. At Minneapolis: Minnesota, 80; Chicago, 0. At Evanston: Iowa, IL: Northwest ern, 2s. At Lawrence: Kansas. o. MepTASAa, Ia. At st. Louis: Missouri. 10: Wash ington, 3. At Cincinnati: Camp Sheridan. o; Camp Sherman, 10. At Cleveland: Heidelberg, 10; West ern Reserve. 0. At Nashville: Auburn. 81: Wander biit. Z. At Augusta: Camp Hancock. IL; Charleston Navy Yard. z. AT Cambridge: Harvard freshrn en-. o; Yale freshmen, ~. AT Atlanta: Tech, es; Carlisle. o. At New Brunswick: Rutgers. AZ: League Island marines, 0. At Boston: Camp Devena, O., Camp sDix. ~. At Chattanooga: Sswanee, O; Cen trail of Kentucky, 81. At Spartanburg. s. c.: wofford, 20: South Carolina. D. So At New Haven: Yale informal. Z: Trinity. 0. At Newport: Naval reserve, ID: Harvard Informal, 0. At Durham; New Hampshire state. 81; Worcester Poly. o. AT Rockford, Ill: Navy, 8: Army, 8 draining camp). AT Lafayette: Perdue. 80; Wa bash. D. AT Lexingtons Alabama, IT; KEN lucky, 0.

New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 19, 1917, page 8 (results column)
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FOOTBALL RESULTS. Yale 1921, IA: Harvard, .. Yale Informals. z; Trinity, o. Wesleyan, 6; Columbia, 0. Tufts, 27 Dartmouth, 0. .. St. Johns, 33; Mt. St. Mary’s, 0. w. Maryland George Washington game cancelled. Pennsylvania, Is; Michigan. 0. Heidelberg, 19; West Res., 0. Fordham, 27; Cornell, 6. Camp Dix, 1s; Camp Devens, Q. Williams, 20; Amherst, o. N. Hampshire, 57; Wor. Poly.s o. Stevens, 6: N. Y. U., 6. Army, 50; Lebanon Valley, 0. Newport Res. IA: Harvard Inf, o. Navy, 80; Villa Nova. 8. Princeton Inf, fl; Wissahickor Nav Barracks, 0. Brown, 19; Colby, ‘. 4. Holy Cross, Al; Rensselaer, 1S. Syracuse, 27; Colgate, 2. Gettysburg. 6; Bucknell, (. Lafayette, AZ: Albright, 0. Pittsburgh. 27; Carnegie Tech. Q. Lehigh. 34; Penn. Mil, 6. Exeter, 3; Andover, 0. Rochester, g: Hobart, 0. Georgia Tech, 98; Carlisle, o. Auburn, 31; Vanderbilt, 2. Alabama, 27: Kentucky, 0. w. Virginia, Y Wash. & Jeff. o. Northwestern, 25: Iowa, 14. Minneapolis, 3; Chicago. 0.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Dartmouth 84% to win. Tufts pulled the upset.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Tufts gameDartmouth leads 10–1 in 11 meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1920 | Dartmouth 34, Tufts 7 | |
| 1917 | Tufts 27, Dartmouth 0 | |
| 1915 | Dartmouth 20, Tufts 7 | |
| 1914 | Dartmouth 68, Tufts 0 | |
| 1902 | Dartmouth 29, Tufts 0 | |
| 1901 | Dartmouth 22, Tufts 0 |
Around this game
Dartmouth
- Next gameat BrownNov. 29, 1917
- SeasonDartmouth in 1917
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Tufts
- Next gameat HarvardNov. 9, 1918
- SeasonTufts in 1917
- ProgramTufts history and records
