Dartmouth at Columbia

Saturday, November 20, 1937

No. 9 Dartmouth beat Columbia 27–⁠0. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 8–⁠3.

Away9Dartmouth7–⁠0–⁠2 in 1937
27
HomeColumbia2–⁠5–⁠2 in 1937
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: 10000 See California Win.

    Evening star, November 21, 1937, page 29 (results column)

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    10000 See California Win. A CROWD of 10000 saw California. “a tied by Washington, but undefeated, turn back Stanford with a second half drive that accounted for both touchdowns. Pitt. with its great backfeld aces, Goldberg, Cassiano, Stebbins and Patrick. running wild, crushed Penn State by 2S-7 score and now needs to stop Duke next Saturday to wind up q season marred only by q scoreless tie with Fordham’s powerful Rams. Fordham was less impressive in a 60 victory over St. Marys Gaels from California, although the undefeated Rams dominated play from start to finish. Unbeaten Villanova ran up the biggest score in the history Of the series In routing Pop Warmers Temple Owls, 800. Dartmouth, which has said officially it will play no post season games, completed an unbeaten season with an easy 27–⁠0 conquest OF Columbia, giving the Indians from Hanover, N. H., clear title to the ivy league” championship. Meanwhile, Lafayette’s Leopards down their traditional rivals, Lehighs Engineers. 60, to complete season marked by neither defeat nor tie.

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 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 49, Columbia 3
2024Dartmouth 24, Columbia 21
2023Dartmouth 20, Columbia 9
2022Dartmouth 27, Columbia 24
2021Columbia 19, Dartmouth 0
2019Dartmouth 59, Columbia 24

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