Cornell at Dartmouth

Saturday, November 13, 1937

Cornell and No. 5 Dartmouth tied 6–⁠6. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 12–⁠8–⁠1.

AwayCornell5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1937
6
Home5Dartmouth7–⁠0–⁠2 in 1937
6

FinalHigh 58°F, low 40°F, 0.96 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 14, 1937, page 36

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    by the Associated Fress. - ANOVER, N. H., Nov. 13.-The IL notorious jinx that haunts Dartmouth football teams in 4 numeralogical guise this season caught up with the undefeated Indians again today and Cornell’s powerful forces held them to a 6–⁠6 deadlock before q rain-soaked and overflow crowd OF $4,000. Two weeks ago the Indians went to the Yale Bowl with high hopes of winning their third straight victory over the Ellis in the 21st renewal Of that ivy College” series but they left with 80 tie. The set-up was exact ly the same today. for the Indians had played 20 previous games with Big Red teams and had won the last two. AS one squally shower swiftly followed another, the evenly matched Indians and Ithacans played cautious ly, attempting to force break. One finally came Cornell’s way in the third period, when Sid Roth, the 2O0-pound guard from Brooklyn, smothered Bob MacLeod’s tumble on Dartmouth’s 33-yard line.

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Grid Scores

    Imperial Valley press, November 14, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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    Grid Scores Football results in representative collel-iate games: Notre Dame Z; Army 0 Yale rs; Princeton 0 Pitt 13; Nebraska Brown O; Holy Cross Z Duke IA; North Carolina 6 Ohio State 10; Illinois 0 Mich State 13; Carnegie Tech 6 Harvard Is; Davidson 0 Lafayette 6; Wash-Jeff Bucknel O.; Temple 0 Dartmouth 6; Cornell 6 Lehigh 4; MuhlenbWg Is NYU 0; Georgetown Columbia s; Syracuse 6 Detroit 40; N. Dakota 0 Minnesota I; Northwestern 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 76% to win.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 66 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 24, Cornell 14
2024Cornell 39, Dartmouth 22
2023Dartmouth 30, Cornell 14
2022Cornell 17, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 41, Cornell 7
2019Cornell 20, Dartmouth 17

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