Dartmouth at Yale

Saturday, October 31, 1936

Dartmouth beat No. 12 Yale 11–⁠7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 15–⁠2–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1936
11
Home12Yale7–⁠1 in 1936
7

FinalHigh 51°F, low 31°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: GAME YALE TEAM |S0vERCOME11-7 Big Green Is Far Superior, but Ellis Bid for Win at Last Moment.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1936, page 1

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    GAME YALE TEAM |S0vERCOME11–⁠7 Big Green Is Far Superior, but Ellis Bid for Win at Last Moment. “A yEW HAVEN, Conn, October M Shocking the part Of a winner all the way and beat 4 ing Yale, ii to Z, the Dart mouth foot ball team today added another chapter to its history making victory of 1895. Last years 1916 victory was their first triumph since the rivalry between the two institutions started In 1884. But the Indians. after taking a lead Of 40 on pair Of safeties by Charley Ewart, Yale back, and stretching it to Ito early in the fourth when John Handrahan crashed over from the l. yard line for a touchdown, came peril ously close to being victimized by one of Yale’s famous rousing last minute rallies. Kelley AvertS ShutOut. WALES boast that the Ellis have never failed to score since Lippy Larry Kelley, cracker jack end. made the team in 1884, was maintained when Kelley caught l7-yard pass in the end zone with three minutes left, sparing the sons Of Eli a whitewash. That was the lone cheering note the game provided for Yale supporters, who made up most of the crowd of 60, 900 in the Yale bowl as the Blues. after victories over Cornell, Penn, Navy and Rutgers, were toppled from the ranks of the undefeated. With one minute left, Bud Hum phrey, reserve back who tossed the touchdown pass to Kelley. shot IS yard pass into the end zone, in tended for Archie Hoxton, SUB stitute end.

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.

On the newsreel

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Yale 62% to win. Dartmouth pulled the upset.

Yale leads 50–⁠33–⁠5 in 88 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Yale 28, Dartmouth 7
2025Dartmouth 17, Yale 16
2024Dartmouth 44, Yale 43
2023Yale 31, Dartmouth 24
2022Yale 24, Dartmouth 21
2021Dartmouth 24, Yale 17

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