Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, October 23, 1937

No. 18 Dartmouth beat Harvard 20–⁠2. It was their 44th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 29–⁠12–⁠3.

Away18Dartmouth7–⁠0–⁠2 in 1937
20
HomeHarvard5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1937
2

FinalHigh 67°F, low 56°F, 1.55 in. of rainAttendance 50,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Vandy Serves Warning.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 24, 1937, page 27 (results column)

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    Vandy Serves Warning. VANDERBILTs COMMODOREs fired decisive challenge at the rest Of the Southeastern Conference, notably Alabama and Auburn, by whipping Louisiana State, 7–⁠6. 1t was Louisiana’s first conference defeat in IA games. Alabama, taking the day off from conference competition. crushed George Washington’s hitherto unbeaten Colonials, 1870. Auburn, which has definitely found itself the last two weeks, trounced Georgia Tech, 21–⁠0. While Yale was consolidating its position as “Ivy League” favorite with q 80 conquest of Cornell and Dart mouth was taking full advantage of every opportunity in 20–⁠2 defeat of Harvard, Pitt and Fordham came UP with intersectional victories for the East. With Marshall Goldberg and Dick Cassiano in the starring roles, Pitt removed Wisconsin from the I’M defeated list, 21–⁠0, and Fordham came through in the fourth quarter to trip Texas Christian, 7–⁠6. Brown sprang the biggest Eastern upset by marching 81 yards to a fourth-period touchdown and nosing out Columbia, rs, for its first major victory since 1888. Lafayette’s 1870 defeat Of New York University was almost As surprising. East Takes Beating. Despite the Pitt and Fordham triumphs and Arny’s rout OF Wash ington University, Att, the East took q beating in intersectional combat for the most part. Notre Danes rousing last-quarter rally carried the Fighting Irish” to 81 decision over Navy and Colgate was no match for Duke, 1870. Maryland outplayed Syracuse by q wide margin, 1870; Boston College dropped 14–⁠0 decision to Detroit and Catholic was beaten, 7–⁠2, at st. Louis. Kentucky routed Manhattan, 1910. A substitute ran on the field to nullify q field goal in the closing minutes Of play and robbed Penn of a victory over Georgetown, the game ending in a scoreless draw. Prince ton found Rutgers tough defensive outfit but won, SO. Holy Cross spilled Western Maryland, 60, and Villanova pushed over Bucknell, 21–⁠0. Ohio State took long step toward o share in the Big Ten Conference title by nosing out Northwestern in . spectacular battle, TO. Michigan eked out 7–⁠6 decision over Iowa while Indiana knocked over a nom conference foe, Cincinnati, 27–⁠0.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: BALL @ R{3SWG IFS Ma

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 25, 1937, page 5 (results column)

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    BALL @ R{3SWG IFS Ma The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon; Oregon State IA; oregon 0. Washington State 3; UCLA 0. University ot Wasning.on T; Stan- ford 13. Louisiana State 6; Vanderbilt T. Nebraska 2; Missouri 0. Southern California 6; California 20. Kansas G.; Oklahoma B. Auburn 21; Georgia Tech 0. Pittsburgh 21; Wisconsin O. Princeton 6; Rutgers 0. Yale g; Cornell 0. Brown T; Columbia 6. Fordham T; Texas Christian 6. Ohio State 2; Northwestern 0. Holy Cross 6; Western Maryland 0. Michigan T; Iowa 6. Navy T; Notre Dame g. Army AT; Washington University 2. Drake 30; Iowa State 0. Dartmouth 20; Harvard 2. Alabama 19; George Washington 0. Duke 13; Colgate 0. Lafayette 13; New York Univer- sity 0. SUNDAY GAMES Santa Clara ‘; LoyOla o. San Francisco University IT; Con- zaga 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 60% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 31, Dartmouth 10
2024Harvard 31, Dartmouth 27
2023Harvard 17, Dartmouth 9
2022Harvard 28, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
2019Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6

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