Dartmouth at Yale

Saturday, November 4, 1939

Dartmouth beat Yale 33–⁠0. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Yale led the series 15–⁠4–⁠4.

AwayDartmouth5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1939
33
HomeYale3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
0

FinalHigh 53°F, low 24°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story: Yale Blues Prep For Brown After Blank By Green

    The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, November 6, 1939, page 12

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    Yale Blues Prep For Brown After Blank By Green The Yale football team, still . little shaky from the 33–⁠0 Dart mouth assault by land and air. be- gan preparations today for the Brown game Saturday. a game which 1t hoped would be 6 breatlier before the Princeton and Harvard encounters. Hoped” is the right word for the Brown game. The way the Ellis per- formed this weekend few would be surprised if Brown turned and knocked off the blue. Yale didn’t have a chance in the Dartmouth engagement. Their de- lenses were weak against the attack the Indians launched through the air and on the ground. Baunan and Kreiger and Hutchinson and Arico bombarded the Eli defenses merci- lessly, piling up the greatest score in the traditional Yale Dartmouth series. The Elis gained about 50 yards on the ground during the entire contest. They attempted 34 forward passes, and completed IS, almost 50 per cent. But most of these were on the short bullet variety, not heavy ground d-gainers. The Blue never threatened the Green. Other Connecticut teams, however, came through in fine shape. Trinity college maintained its tln- defeated record by trouncing Rochester, 4610. Wesleyan leaped on the Q. g. Coast Guard Academy and won, 20- 2. The University of Connecticut overwhelmed Lowell Textile, 20–⁠0.. New Britain Teachers College, still undefeated, United, and un- scored-on, conquered Wagner, 39–⁠0.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 6, 1939, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores Of games played last Saturday: Idaho 19; Utah State T. Oregon 38; Washington State 0. Southern California 19; oregon State ‘. Santa Clara 27; Stanford T. U.C.L.A. 20; California T. Chicago 0; Virginia AT. Villanova 13; Detroit 6. Washington and Lee 6; Washing ton University 12. Vanderbilt T; Mississippi IA. Texas 0; Southern Methodist 10. Oklahoma 38; Iowa State 6. University of Washington g.; Montana 0. Notre Dame 14; Army o. Rice T; Fordham 13. Navy 6; Penn 8. Harvard 6; Princeton 9. Columbia ‘; Cornell 13. Pitt 13; Temple T. Indiana 0; Ohio State 27. Michigan State IA; Syracuse 3. Marquette l3; Duquesne 2l. Dartmouth 33; Yale 0. Lafayette :; 1sew York U. IA. North Carolina State 0; North Carolina IT. Florida 0; South Carolina 6. Coast Guard Academy T; Wes- leyan University 20. Maryland O.; Penn State 12. Centre 6; Cincinnati 6, tie. Wake Forest IA; Marshall 13. Tulsa T; Catholic U 13. West Virginia 0; Georgetown IA Iowa 4 Purdue 0. Texas Aggies 2l; Arkansas 0. Duke T; Georgia Tech 6. Nebraska 13; Missouri 27. Northwestern IA; Minnesota 2. Kentucky 2; Alabama 2, tie. Michigan 2; Illinois l6. Tennessee 20; Louisiana State O.

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

  • DARTMOUTH ROUTS YALE, 33-0The "Big Green" team from Hanover rides roughshod over the "Elis" in the Bowl, with the "Indians" outplaying the powerless "Bulldogs" from start to finish. A stunning victory for Dartmouth!Universal Newsreel, November 8, 1939. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Dartmouth 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 50–⁠33–⁠5 in 88 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Yale 28, Dartmouth 7
2025Dartmouth 17, Yale 16
2024Dartmouth 44, Yale 43
2023Yale 31, Dartmouth 24
2022Yale 24, Dartmouth 21
2021Dartmouth 24, Yale 17

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