Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, November 11, 1899

Harvard beat Dartmouth 11–⁠0. It was their 16th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 16–⁠0.

AwayDartmouth2–⁠7 in 1899
0
HomeHarvard10–⁠0–⁠1 in 1899
11

FinalHigh 41°F, low 31°FAttendance 3,000

In the newspapers

  • The The news & observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current's story: A DAYS KICKING ON THE GR|D|RON Sons of Eli Too Swift for the Quakers. FUMBLING IN THE MUD HARVARD BEATS DARTMOUTH IN A POURING RAIN. QUAKEsS AND 'GANDERS' FIERCE GAME Pennsylvania Wins The Royal Battle, Gaining Her Ground by Fierce PIunging Through the Line. Columbia Defeats West Point in

    The news & observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, North Carolina, November 12, 1899, page 10

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    A DAYS KICKING ON THE GR|D|RON Sons of Eli Too Swift for the Quakers. FUMBLING IN THE MUD HARVARD BEATS DARTMOUTH IN A POURING RAIN. QUAKEsS AND ‘GANDERS’ FIERCE GAME Pennsylvania Wins The Royal Battle, Gaining Her Ground by Fierce PIunging Through the Line. Columbia Defeats West Point in Furious Game The sixty-Third Visit. New Haven. Conn, Nov. lin her final game before the championship CON test with Harvard. Yale this afternoon easily defeated the Pennsylvania State College eleven at football by the score of Il to Q, thirty points being scored in the first half. The fastest kind of foot ball was played by the Sons of Eli, who carried the visitors off their feet for good gains time after time.

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 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 91 since this game.

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

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