Dartmouth at Northwestern

Saturday, November 24, 1928

Northwestern beat Dartmouth 27–⁠6. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayDartmouth5–⁠4 in 1928
6
HomeNorthwestern5–⁠3 in 1928
27

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: NORTHWESTERN CRUSHES DARTMOUTH TEAM, 27.6

    Evening star, November 25, 1928, page 82

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    NORTHWESTERN CRUSHES DARTMOUTH TEAM, 27.6 blocked by Andres. 1t was the first time this season that his extra point boot failed. Northwestern threatened several times in the second period but was unable to supply the needed punch. Bruder was unstoppable in the third period. carrying the ball on line smashes and end runs from his own 35-yard line to score. Holmer added the extra point. Dartmouth Shows Pluck. Dartmouth then came back with it’s score in the final period Marsters bullet-like pass caught the Wildcats unaWareS and Booma found a clear field ahead of him for his 40-yard dash Line snaShes by Levison and a brilliant passing attack enabled North western to score minute later, Holmer going over from the 3-yard line. His place kick for extra point was good again. Dartmouth second threat in the final period ended with a tumble, Holmer picking up the ball on Northwestern’s 17-yard line and galloped SO yards for touchdown, adding the extra point from placement. Northwestern gained 305 yards from the line of scrimmage as compared to 118 by Dartmouth; in first downs the Wildcats made 25 to Dartmouth’s 8: in passing Northwestern also excelled, COM pleting out of for 95 yards. while Dartmouth completed S out of 16 for N yards.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 26, 1928, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of prin- cipal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Northwestern 27; Dartmouth 6. Illinois 8; Ohio State 0. Michigan 10, Iowa ‘. Harvard IT; Yale o. Minnesota 6; Wisconsin 0. Army 13; Nebraska 3. Princeton 0; Navy 9. Stanford 13; California 13. Oregon 31; Montana 6. Southern California 2S; Idaho [. Centre 0; Vanderbilt 26. Gonzaga 13; Loyola 6. Michigan State [; North Caro- Iina 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 51% to win. Northwestern won as Elo’s underdog.

Northwestern leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game

Dartmouth

Northwestern