Columbia at Dartmouth

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  New Britain herald, October 23, 1930, page 10 (results column)

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  TRADITION HOLDS GAMES SATURDAY Ancient Rivals to Clash on Grid iron in Annual Battles New York. Oct 23 Pt – With next Saturdays games, eastern football goes definitely into that part of the seacon in which tradition holds a large portion Of the interest in the games. Nearly every “big” clash has behind it long years of other “big” games, with the Har- yard Dartmouth rivalry the most ancient. Saturdays game will be the 37th struggle between the Crimson and Green. So far Harvard has won 27 games to Dartmouths seven, but that record has no bearing on the although current bear” stories from both camps proclaim numer- ous injuries. Harvard has lost one game, q 60 decision 10 Army, while Dartmouth did not get a real test in running up a 52–⁠0 count against Columbia. Yale and Army which meet in Yale bowl started their series eleven years after Harvard and Dartmouth, in 1893. but it now ranks higher in the years clashes. The powerful Army aggregation may go on to championship honors of some kind if it can pass Albie Booth and q strong Yale line. Princeton and Navy also arc ri vals of long standing and with both { teams showing signs of improvement after bad starts they may produce a good battle. Other rivalries on this 1 weeks grdiron card which date back into the nineties or before are the Brown Holy Cross game, the i Lafayette Washington and Jefferson night struggle at Atlantic City, Get 1 tysburg- Bucknell and Amherst Wesleyan. l Fordham and New York Univer- s;ty are not numbered among the cridiron anCients. but both teams ! are undefeated this year and have championship aspirations. X com piete absence of serious injuries brings the prospect of plenty Of ac- ton fer sell-out crowd at the Yankee Stadium. The days intersectional activities arc almost completely bounded by the Pittsburgh -Notre Dame struggle at Pittsburgh. Two candidates for nation wide recognition are sched- uled to settle their argument in this game with the Rocknemen, already victorious over Southern Methodist, i Navy and Carnegie Tech, as strong | favorites. Their coach, however, says ! they are due 10 lose d game while Jock Sutherland of Pitt is making equally pessimistic predictions. The Colgate Penn State game also is a new one on the books which promises 10 be close. Temple, still undefeatcd, risks it’s record against , Nillanova in another important 1 clash,

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Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 66 since this game.