Norwich at Dartmouth

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 29, 1929, page 83

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  DARTMOUTH ATTACK SMOTHERS NORWICH BY the Associated Press. HANOVER, N. H., September % The Dartmouth foot ball team used nothing but straight running plays here today when 1t opened its 1929 season by smothering the light Norwich eleven, 81 to o. The Big Green machine, for the past five years one Of the most consistent users of the forward pass, tried only two, one in each half, and both were grounded. AL Marsters, Dartmouth’s great ball carrier, played his first game at quarterback. a position which did not curb his old scoring tricks. as he returned a punt of 70 yards for a touchdown. the Green’s first offensive chance, and then broke through the Cadets line for three more tallies.

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.

Dartmouth leads 24–⁠0 in 24 meetings, counting the eight since this game.