Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, October 17, 1942

Dartmouth beat Harvard 14–⁠2. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 30–⁠16–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth5–⁠4 in 1942
14
HomeHarvard2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1942
2

FinalHigh 59°F, low 46°F, 1.2 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Dartmouth Rally Trims Harvard

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 18, 1942, page 1

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    Dartmouth Rally Trims Harvard CAMBRIDGE Mass. oct. II Dartmouth, after a slug gish first half, staged a sustained attack to come from behind today and defeat Harvard. 14–⁠2, in the fcrsy-ninth renewal Of their Ivy League classic. Dartmouth’s first touchdown was made on the only Dartmouth pass of the day with freshman halfback Lawrence Bartnick pitch ing a 12-yardcr 10 end Joe Crow ley. who had drifted into the Harvard end zone, in the third quarter. A tumble, midway in the final prriod, ted 10 me second -bsTtmoth score In four plays Ray Wolfe crashed tho tackles 10 bring DartmouthS final score. Capt Ed Kast converted after both touchdownS.

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 54% to win. Dartmouth won as Elo’s underdog.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 58 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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