Holy Cross at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 16, 1920

Dartmouth beat Holy Cross 27–⁠14. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 5–⁠0.

AwayHoly Cross1–⁠2 in 1920
14
HomeDartmouth7–⁠2 in 1920
27

FinalHigh 67°F, low 49°F, 0.01 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: DARTMOUTH ELEVEN WINS Rallies After Holy Cross Gets Early Score on tumble.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1920, page 28

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    DARTMOUTH ELEVEN WINS Rallies After Holy Cross Gets Early Score on tumble. HANOVER, n. H., October 16- Dartmouth defeated Holy Cross here today. 81 to IA. Holy Cross scored first. after Fraser fumbled the kick Off and Gagnon recovered and made a forward pass to Simondinger, who went over the goa! line. In the same period the Green attack crashed through for two scores. Dartmouth scored two more touchdowns in the final period, and a forward pass, followed by plunge by Smith, tailed a touchdown for Holy Cross with four minutes to play.

  • The Arizona republican's story: FOOTBALL RESULTS INDIANA. 2t, MINNEsoTA. !.

    Arizona republican, Arizona, October 17, 1920, page 12 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL RESULTS INDIANA. 2t, MINNEsoTA. !. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct. 1e- Minnesota slipped down another rung on the ‘‘big ten” football championship ladder today, when Indiana forward passed her to a 21 to victory over the Gophers. A driving attack produced by Mime sota at the outset brought the game’s first touchdown. Indiana tied the count and jumped into the lead in the second period. Forward passes made possible the Hoosier touchdowns. with Fullback Kyle running rampant. PRINCETON, 3–⁠4; WASH- 20 | PRINCETON, N. T.. Oct. l6-Prince- ton overwhelmed Washington and Lee football eleven today by a scoer of 34 to O. The visitors were never danger ous and Princeton scored in every pe- riod. Coach Roper sent in nineteen substitutes during the play. Cleaves and Lourie starred for Princeton. the for- mer making two touchdowns. DARTMOUTH, 27; HOLY CROSS, 14 HANOVER, N. H., Oct. 16-Dart- mouth defeated Holy Cross here today 27 to IA. CHICAGO. oct. 16-Chicago had an easy time with Wabash today, winning 41 to O. The Maroons used 2s players and apparently were able to score at will. Wabash played a fast game. but was outweighed and outclassed ana never got the ball past ChIcago’s 70. yard line. Cole. Chicago half. ran tO yards to make one of the touchdowns. CRIMSON, 3e; WILLIAMS, O CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Oct. 16-Har- ward had little difficulty in rolling up | five fouchdowns and field goal Il against Williams today, winning Ss to 0 The visitors held the Crimson well in, the first period and carried the ball | To Harvard’s 45-yard line. For the re- mainder of the game Williams offense was never. within 55 yards of the eoai: MICH. AGGiES, O; ANN ARsOh, go ANN ARBOR. Mich. Oct. 16-The defenss Of the Michigan Aggies. which held Michigan’s football team to one touchdown fin the first half of today’s game. crumbled in the last half and the Wolverines smashed the farmer line for A s5 to o victory. The five touch downs resulted from straight football. NoTRE DAME 16, NEBRASKA ‘ LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. 16.-Notre , Dame defeated Nebraska today, l6 to 1, [. in a game that was full or thrills. SrRV0TAI ! crowd witnessing the game fully ex- pected the Corn Huslers to emrge vic . tors. Gipp. left half for the Indiana team , was directly responsible for eight oi the 16 points scored by Notre Dame . Brandy, Notre Dame quarterback e scored the first touchdown for the ln- diana aggregation in the second guar I ter. Unofficial notes kept of the game q show that Brandy scored his touch t down on the fifth down. s Nebraska scored in the second quar d ter when Hubka went over for touch h down from the one-foot line. CaptaiI W Day kicked the goal. n BOSTON 21. YALE t3 NEW HAVEN. Oct. 16.-Boston col !, lege smothered Yale today. 21 to ls a repeating It’s victory of last year. Tn e game was spectacular throughout if with a crowd of more than S0,000 | -e the Yale bowl. The game was rougf “a Captain Callahan. Aldrich. Kemptor ,a French and Walker of Yale an lo Heaphy and Liston of the visitors be Id ing hurt. o Yale completed eight forward passe S in “A attempts. 1, Boston tried 10 forward passes onl “ “ two of which were successful Bot ‘e sides were penalized many times. OHIO 17. PURDUE o s’ COLUMBUS. Ohio. Oct. 1s.-Ohi n State won it’s first western conferenc “a game of 1920 today. defeating Purdu ld university, 17 to 0. The Buckeye solved the much-vaunted Boiler nt make<s” shift in the first period an le led by a clever 15-yard pass, crosse If Purdue’s goal two minutes before th is period ended. Ohio States other touch

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 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 31–⁠25–⁠4 in 60 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Dartmouth 34, Holy Cross 14
2017Dartmouth 27, Holy Cross 26
2016Dartmouth 35, Holy Cross 10
2014Dartmouth 24, Holy Cross 21
2013Holy Cross 31, Dartmouth 28
2012Dartmouth 13, Holy Cross 10

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