Navy at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 14, 1939

Navy and Dartmouth tied 0–⁠0. It was their second meeting; after it, Navy led the series 1–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayNavy3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1939
0
HomeDartmouth5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1939
0

FinalHigh 52°F, low 31°F, 0.02 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Navy Oupaw Dartmouth Baltimore Grid Battle That Ends Scorees Edges Out Detroit n 13 Georgetown and Syracuse Quit Win, Lose or Draw A Few Saturday Football Honeovers

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 15, 1939, page 32

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    Navy Oupaw Dartmouth Baltimore Grid Battle That Ends Scorees Edges Out Detroit n 13 Georgetown and Syracuse Quit Win, Lose or Draw A Few Saturday Football Honeovers BALTIMORE, Oct. 4-This to be the gist Navy 0; Dartmouth, O-It beautiful Tor 1ootba but when the two the Magnot and Siegfried Lines out Darmouths sent trial balloon, which Camps feld-goa attempt esembd The wind ground however and matter how py the still q grand october afternoon. Georgetown IL; Syracuse, 13Ihe Hoyas folk Until today they had among the handful of unbeaten united Still 1t wasn’t GeorgetoWns mean could have been Syracuse only lost 1888 club and BESIDES the Orange osh team in repeat, it wasn’t bad Virginia. 12 Maryland This of those out according to Late in the afternoon after that failed touchdown have received just pulling unrecognized by the scoreboard cstodian with George Washington University the unbeaten

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 16, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Oct. IA Duke Thirteen-Pitt 14 Cornell 20-Princeton 2 Penn 6-Yale 0 Army 6-Columbia 6 Tie Dartmouth 0-Navy 0 Tie Northwestern 0-Ohio State 13 Texas Christian 1l-Temple 13 Fordham 0-Tulane 2 Nebraska 10-IoWa State 2 Purdue 13-Minesota 13 Tie Southern Methodist 19-- Notre Dame 20 Harvard 61-Chicago 0 Oregon 6-California0 Washington 0-Wash. State 6 UCLA 14-Stanford IA Tie Oregon State 14-U of Portland 12 Illinois 0-Southern Cal 26

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 66% to win.

Navy leads 4–⁠0–⁠1 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.

Recent meetings
1986Navy 45, Dartmouth 0
1954Navy 42, Dartmouth 7
1953Navy 55, Dartmouth 7
1939Navy 0, Dartmouth 0
1929Navy 13, Dartmouth 6

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