Cornell at Dartmouth

Saturday, November 3, 1923

Cornell beat Dartmouth 32–⁠7. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 4–⁠3.

AwayCornell8–⁠0 in 1923
32
HomeDartmouth8–⁠1 in 1923
7

FinalHigh 63°F, low 17°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: MIGHTY CORNELL CRUSHES GREENS Dartmouth's Hopes Are Wrecked In 32 To ' Defeat

    The Birmingham age-herald, November 4, 1923, page 15

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    MIGHTY CORNELL CRUSHES GREENS Dartmouth’s Hopes Are Wrecked In 32 To ‘ Defeat HANOVER. N H., Nov. S-Four times the great Cornell football ma chine rolled down the field today with it’s crushing tactics and each time carried the ball across the Dartmouth line, twice goals from the field sailed between the Dartmouth goal posts, and at the end of the game the Dart mouth team, conqueror of Harvard. was routed and beaten, 32 to ‘. For Cornell it was the twenty first consecutive victory. For Dart mouth it was taste of the same bitter dedication medicine” that the Big Green administered to Harvard to tho University of Washington. and again to the Uni versity of Vermont, when their ath- letic fields and stands were inaug- urated. Combining aerial assaults with It’s amazing battering ram smashes through tackle and four bullet-like runs by Captain Pfann, Cornell clear premacy and earned its victory. Pfann. as was expected, was hectic in action. Besides carrying the bur den of Cornelrs bunting and acting as field general, once, in the first period, he broke loose 12 yards for 6 touchdown. In the second period he sprinted 43 yards. In the fourth ptIlD0 iit udSutu 70 ydiuS ODC6 anu again % yards for touchdown. The lineup and summary: Cornell (32)-Henderson left end: Kearney. left tackle; Morris, left guard; Affeld, center; Berean. right guard: Sundstrom. right tackle Kneen, right end; Pfann. quarterback {; Paterson, left halfback; Ramsey, right halfback; Cassidy, fullback. Dartmouth CO-Bjorkman, left end {: Oberlander, left tackle; Diehl, left guard; Ellis, center; Asehenbach, right guard; Hatch, right tackle; Hagenbuckle, right end Dooley, quarterback; Kelley, left halfback; Flaws, right halfbaok; Leavitt. full back Score by periods Cornell ...............,6 z 10-s2 Dartmouth ............0 [ 0 O. 7 Cornell scoring; Touchdowns, Pfann 2. Ramsey 2. Points from territory after touchdown, Sundstrom 2. Goals from field, Sundstrom 2. Dartmc scoring: Touchdown, Aschenbac eli. Point from territory after touchdown, flaws. Referee, O’Brien (Tufts). Umpire. Murphy (Brown). Field judge, Merri- man (Geneva). Linesman, McGuiness Lehigh). Time of periods. 15 minutes each

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 51% to win. Cornell won as Elo’s underdog.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 80 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 24, Cornell 14
2024Cornell 39, Dartmouth 22
2023Dartmouth 30, Cornell 14
2022Cornell 17, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 41, Cornell 7
2019Cornell 20, Dartmouth 17

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