Dartmouth at Columbia
Saturday, November 20, 1937 Share
No. 9 Dartmouth beat Columbia 27–0. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 8–3.
Final
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Columbia gameDartmouth leads 57–16 in 73 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
| 2025 | Dartmouth 49, Columbia 3 | |
| 2024 | Dartmouth 24, Columbia 21 | |
| 2023 | Dartmouth 20, Columbia 9 | |
| 2022 | Dartmouth 27, Columbia 24 | |
| 2021 | Columbia 19, Dartmouth 0 | |
| 2019 | Dartmouth 59, Columbia 24 |
Around this game
Dartmouth
- Next gamevs. BatesSept. 24, 1938
- SeasonDartmouth in 1937
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Columbia
- Next gamevs. StanfordNov. 27, 1937
- SeasonColumbia in 1937
- ProgramColumbia history and records

