Columbia at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 12, 1940

Columbia beat Dartmouth 20–⁠6. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 8–⁠4.

AwayColumbia5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1940
20
HomeDartmouth5–⁠4 in 1940
6

FinalHigh 72°F, low 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Columbia Rolls 0veI Decadent Indians As Soph Stars PouI GovernuIi Leeds Way as Lions Mark Up 20-6 Victory

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1940, page 1

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    Columbia Rolls 0veI Decadent Indians As Soph Stars PouI GovernuIi Leeds Way as Lions Mark Up 20–⁠6 Victory HANOVER, N. H., Oct. IA Dartmouth Indian who definitely “ain’t what he used to be” was a soft touch for Columpia’s footballers today, and the Lions. featuring a neat ground game and a sophomore running ace. rolled to 20–⁠6 victory before 10000 fans. With Paul Governali, sophomore, showing the way, ably aided and abetted by Seniors Les Stanczyk and Stew McIlvennan in the backfleld and Don Snavelv and Felix Demartini in the line. Columbia remanned in the unbeaten column after two starts. Governali took the kickoff stand ing on his own e. He cut to the left sideline, side-stepped two tacklers and waltzed for a 74-yard touchdown. Len ‘Sure-Toe) Will place kicked the point Stanczyk came in to start the second quarter. and picked up where Governali left of in sparkling a 49-yard scoring drive McIlvennan bucked over for the tally and Will added the extra point. Dartmouth finally got going in the fourth period and rode to a touchdown through the air on a 51-yard parade. Governali came back in the final quarter and went right to work again as the Lions smashed 70 yards in IL plays to their

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 64% to win. Columbia won as Elo’s underdog.

Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 61 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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