Dartmouth at Columbia

Saturday, October 19, 1929

Dartmouth beat Columbia 34–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 5–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth7–⁠2 in 1929
34
HomeColumbia4–⁠5 in 1929
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: DARTMOUTH DOWNS COLUMBIA, "a TO 0

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1929, page 1

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    DARTMOUTH DOWNS COLUMBIA, “a TO 0 NEW YORK, October 19.-Al Mar stera, the human jackrabbit,” who leads the country in foot ball scoring, swept Columbia of its feet today with a pair of touchdowns in the first few minutes, and a powerful Dartmouth eleven went on TO win by the one-sided count of “a to O. Before crowd of $4,000 the bare legged Marsters and his alert mates got thu jump on Columbia and never let up. After starting the landslide with his running. kicking and passing in the opening quarter. Marsters was taken out and did not appear in either the second or the fourth periods. With the great back in leash, CO. lumbia held its own in the second and third periods, although unable to score, but in the fourth the Green Tailed two more touchdowns, one on an intercepted pass and the other on a perfect aerial play. Ralph Hewitt, sophomore halfback, started for Columbia, but his mates were unable to shake him loose for consistent gains. In interference and line play Dartmouth held an edge.

  • The Seward daily gateway's story: FOOTBALL Sc0RES

    Seward daily gateway, Alaska, October 21, 1929, page 8 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL Sc0RES Fordham ‘, Holy Cross 0, Dartmouth 34. Columbia 0. Georgia 19, North Carolina 12 Harvard 20 Army 20. Wittenburg 13, Heidelberg, O. Carnegie Tech 0, Wn. Jefferson 0 New York ‘, Penn State O. Dickinson ‘, George Washington 6 Navy 45, Duke 13, Northwestern IA; Minnesota 26. Norte Dame 19, Wisconsin O Washington Q, Grinnel O. Ohio State ‘, Michigan Q. Cornell 13, Princeton T California F, Pennsylvania ‘. Yale IA, Brown 6. “ Q. I. 20, Virginia ‘. Utah 40, Colorado 0. Stanford 40, Oregon State ‘. Oregon 34, Idaho T. So. Calif., 64, Occidental 0. Amhurst 21, Hamilton G. U. of Wash, 13, Wash, State 20.

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)

Columbia 51% to win. Dartmouth won as Elo’s underdog.

Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 67 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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