Dartmouth at Princeton
Saturday, November 11, 1939 Share
Princeton beat No. 14 Dartmouth 9–7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 13–5–2.
FinalHigh 56°F, low 42°F
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, November 13, 1939, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
Football Scores November Il Washington 13-California 6 Oregon State 19-Oregon IA Santa Clara 6-Michigan State Washington State Freshmen - 6-Washington Frosh 12 Washington State 2l-Idaho l3 Southern California 33-Stan- ford 0 Fresno State 27 Portland U 13 Utah 34-Hawaii 19 Army 0-Harvard 15 Missouri 20-New York U ‘ Pitt 6-Carnegie Tech 0 Duquesne Worth Carolina State 0 Columbia 19--Navy 13 Dartmouth 7-Princeton 9 Minnesota 20-Michigan ‘ Colgate 12-Cornell IA North Carolina 3z-Davidson 0 Notre Dame 6-Iowa Kentucky 6-Georgie Tech 13 Duke 20-V MY Tulane 13-Alabama 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.
On the newsreel
- PRINCETON TOPS DARTMOUTHThe Nassau "Tigers" claw the Hanover "Indians," 9-7, gaining the edge with a third-period field goal
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 61% to win. Princeton pulled the upset.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Princeton gameDartmouth leads 42–38–3 in 83 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.
| 2025 | Dartmouth 20, Princeton 17 | |
| 2024 | Dartmouth 26, Princeton 17 | |
| 2023 | Dartmouth 23, Princeton 21 | |
| 2022 | Princeton 17, Dartmouth 14 | |
| 2021 | Dartmouth 31, Princeton 7 | |
| 2019 | Dartmouth 27, Princeton 10 |
Around this game
Dartmouth
- Next gamevs. CornellNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonDartmouth in 1939
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Princeton
- Next gameat YaleNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonPrinceton in 1939
- ProgramPrinceton history and records