Columbia at Dartmouth
Saturday, October 12, 1940 Share
Columbia beat Dartmouth 20–6. It was their 12th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 8–4.
FinalHigh 72°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Columbia–Dartmouth gameDartmouth leads 57–16 in 73 meetings, counting the 61 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
Columbia
- Next gamevs. GeorgiaOct. 19, 1940
- SeasonColumbia in 1940
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Dartmouth
- Next gameat YaleOct. 19, 1940
- SeasonDartmouth in 1940
- ProgramDartmouth history and records

