Dartmouth at Princeton
Saturday, November 8, 1941 Share
Dartmouth beat Princeton 20–13. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 14–6–2.
FinalHigh 56°F, low 33°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 9, 1941, page 41
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Dartmouth Defeats Princeton By 2O-73 in Battle Marked BY Variety of Thrills A Princeton pass intercepted by Kast on the Princeton % a couple Of minutes later set up another score. Tom Douglas passed to Kast on the 5, and Douglas then roared around his right end to score. Kast’s place kick was good. That was Dartmouth’s show. In the fading moments of the third quarter Paul Busse intercepted A Dartmouth pass on the Dartmouth “a, and Perina pitched pass into the fiat which Lawry grabbed for a touchdown. Tigers Tally on Long Shot. Starting the final period Perina started pitching in earnest. With Lawry doing most of the receiving. the Tigers advanced 10 the Dart mouth 46. where Perina’ shot long pass down the field. Charley Kill Ian took it over the head Of the safety man and ran over the goal untouched. Perina made good his place kick this time.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 10, 1941, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BAIL @ R{3SW{5 IFS Mr The following are final scores If principal football games played last Saturday afternoon. Fordham O. Pittsburgh l3. Missouri 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Detroit T; Marquette 6. Cornell 21: Yale 2. West Virginia 21; Kansas o. Notre Dame 20; Navy 13. Penn State 34; Syracuse l9. Minnesota 9; Nebraska 0. Lafayette 16; Rutgers 0. Harvard 20; Army 6. Dartmouth 20; Princeton 13. Temple IA; Villanova 13. Holy Cross 13; Brown 0. Boston College 26; Wake Forest 6. Ohio State 46; Wisconsin 34. Duke 56; Davidson 0. Iowa 21; Illinois O. Georgia 19; Florida 3. Georgetown 26; Maryland 0. Pennsylvania 19; Columbia 16. Michigan State 0; Purdue 0. Kansas State 3; South Carolina 0. Virginia Tech IA; North Caro- lima State 13. s.-... .s. Alabama 19; Tulane IA Virginia 27; Washington and Lee T. Georgia Tech 20; Kentucky 13. Cincinnati 20; Carnegie Tech 0. Northwestern 20; Indiana l4. Mississippi State IA; Auburn ‘. Tennessee 28; Howard G. Vanderbilt 20; SeWanee O. Stanford 13; Southern Califor- mia 0. University of Washington 13, California 6. UCLA 0; Oregon State 19. Washington State 26; Idaho 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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Dartmouth 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Princeton gameDartmouth leads 42–38–3 in 83 meetings, counting the 61 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 gameat CornellNov. 15, 1941
- SeasonDartmouth in 1941
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Princeton
- Next gameat YaleNov. 15, 1941
- SeasonPrinceton in 1941
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

