Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, October 26, 1940

Dartmouth beat Harvard 7–⁠6. It was their 47th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 29–⁠15–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth5–⁠4 in 1940
7
HomeHarvard3–⁠2–⁠3 in 1940
6

FinalHigh 59°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 27, 1940, page 30 (results column)

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    Navy, Georgetown. Boston Col lege, Lafayette and Penn State. the other unbeaten Eastern outfits, won decisively. Georgetown ran its unbeaten streak to 81 games with a 800 rout of new York U. Navy hammered Yale into submission, 21–⁠0; Lafayette knocked over hap less Army, 1910: Penn State ran up an 1870 count on Temple, and Boston College spilled st. Anselm’s, $50. Dartmouth surprised with a 7–⁠6 decision over Harvard and Browns 9–⁠6 victory over Holy Cross also was cause for eyebrow-lifting. Princeton handed Rutgers its first defeat, 28–⁠13 and Wesleyan defeated Amherst, in an upset, 14–⁠6, in the first game of the Little Three series. Minnesota turned loose all its power and trampled Iowa, 34–⁠6. bebore 5000 q George Franck scored four touchdown. Northwestern,

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)

Harvard 57% to win. Dartmouth won as Elo’s underdog.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 31, Dartmouth 10
2024Harvard 31, Dartmouth 27
2023Harvard 17, Dartmouth 9
2022Harvard 28, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
2019Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6

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