Dartmouth at Columbia

Thursday, November 29, 1923

Dartmouth beat Columbia 31–⁠6. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 3–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth8–⁠1 in 1923
31
HomeColumbia4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1923
6

FinalAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The New Britain herald's story: ALL-NEW BRITAIN LACKING PUNCH TO WIN AT FOOTBALL DARTMOUTH WAKES UP AND SWiMPS COLUMBIA St-6 Green Inco,cfs Powerful Attack in Final Period For Three Touch downs; Long Runs Feature

    New Britain herald, Connecticut, November 30, 1923, page 8

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    ALL-NEW BRITAIN LACKING PUNCH TO WIN AT FOOTBALL DARTMOUTH WAKES UP AND SWiMPS COLUMBIA St-6 Green Inco,cfs Powerful Attack in Final Period For Three Touch downs; Long Runs Feature New York, Nov. 30.--Coach Jesse TIawley’s Dartmouth eleven. recent conquercr or Harvard. took Columbia into camp at the Polo Grounds yes terday afternoon hy the score of S1 to 6. For three periods, at the end of which the score stood 10 to ( in Dartnouth’s favor, the Green team dallied, but in the fourth and final session Of play it came to life with d NIm, piling up. in rapid succession, three touchdowns and the resultant goals. The fourth period, found the Green opening up t powerful attack fea- tured with an off-tackle sweep. and a floating lateral pass just behind the linc of scrimmage. Eleven plays car ried the ball 56 yards and ended with flaws scoring a touchdown. Another march of 5o wards, interrupted temporarily hy blocked kick, ended with a touchdown by Hall and short Iy before the game ended. Bolles, who had substituted for flaws, Gr0 hhcd coluTb b,a pass and sped 45 yards to nartmouth’s GnM touchdown. HaWa coutrihuj,l o.5” and Bollrs two of tho points following touchdowns in this period.

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 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 49, Columbia 3
2024Dartmouth 24, Columbia 21
2023Dartmouth 20, Columbia 9
2022Dartmouth 27, Columbia 24
2021Columbia 19, Dartmouth 0
2019Dartmouth 59, Columbia 24

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