Dartmouth at Princeton

Saturday, November 6, 1937

No. 9 Dartmouth beat Princeton 33–⁠9. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 12–⁠4–⁠2.

Away9Dartmouth7–⁠0–⁠2 in 1937
33
HomePrinceton4–⁠4 in 1937
9

FinalHigh 54°F, low 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: FAST DARTMOUTH ROUTS PRINCETON Arouses After Tigers Get Early Lead, Drives to 33-9 Victory.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 7, 1937, page 26

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    FAST DARTMOUTH ROUTS PRINCETON Arouses After Tigers Get Early Lead, Drives to 33–⁠9 Victory. ~ RINCETON. N. j.. Nov. g. l. Dartmouth’s slick running Green Indians, already bitten 4 by the Rose Bowl bug, convinced their followers that they are one of the Nations topmost teams by slamming a demoralized Princeton eleven around, 33 to 9. in a grand Of fensive display before $4,000 in Palmer Stadium today. 1t wasn’t until the alert Prince tons had taken advantage of a pair Of breaks to score a touchdown and a field goal that the bouncing boys from New Hampshire rolled up their sleeves and started taking the Tigers apart. Sixty yards they went for their first touchdown just before the half, long pass. Hollingsworth to Davis, eating up the last %. They tore down the green turf 80 yards, then rs yards for two more in the third period. Their fourth climaxed a parade of so yards early in the final heat, and Colby Howe, a slippery substitute. reeled OF . punt return of 10 yards to set up the last one.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BAIL @ lA{5SW{5 IFS Nl

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 8, 1937, page 3 (results column)

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    FOOT BAIL @ lA{5SW{5 IFS Nl The following are final scores oi principal football games played las Saturday afternoon: Kansas 13; Nebraska 13, tie. Minnesota 35; Iowa 10. Stanford 2; Southern California 6 University of Washington 0; Cali fornia 0. Washington State 6; Oregon 10. Washington State Freshmen O. University of Washington Freshmen 13. Brown o; Yale 19 Alabama 9; Tulane 6. Gonzaga O; Montana 23. Willamette O; Oregon State 20. Duquesne 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Chicago 12; Michigan 13. Purdue 3; Fordham 21. Dartmouth 33; Princeton 9 Penn State T; Penn 0. Michigan State 13; Temple 0. Army ‘; Harvard 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern o. p Pittsburgh 21; Notre Dame 6. Navy 13; Columbia 6.

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)

Dartmouth 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 42–⁠38–⁠3 in 83 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

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2021Dartmouth 31, Princeton 7
2019Dartmouth 27, Princeton 10

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