Dartmouth at Princeton
Saturday, November 7, 1942 Share
Dartmouth beat Princeton 19–7. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 14–7–2.
FinalHigh 56°F, low 39°F, 0.02 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 8, 1942, page 39
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Dartmouth Eleven Outgoined But Trims Princeton, 1917 Green Gets All Its Scores on Short Drives; Tigers Make Is First Downs to Rivals 8 Wolfe picked up four on reverse and Pulliam slid through right guard for four yards and another touch down without leaving his feet. This time Kast converted and the Green had all the points necessary. The Tigers came back. Taking the kickoff on their own 20, they started a drive that eventually brought them touchdown. John Heath sprinted % yards on the first play after the kickoff Ground plays brought another first down on Dartmouth’s “A. Then Perina passed to Gallagher, who later aled to Dick West on the 80 and he in turn raced on to the 14-yard line before the period ended. FRANKIE Scores for Tigers. Perina plowed through the line three times for a first down on the 4 and George FRANKIE, freshman fullback, took charge of getting the ball beyond that point. He hit in side his own left tackle four times and finally scored from the 1-yard line. Bob Sandbach added the exira point. Dartmouth appeared content to rest on this margin, until Perina got off a low, hurried punt from deep in his own territory and Wolfe returned it from his own 38 to the Princeton 81. On third down Wolfe broke free again for 20 yards to the Tigers 4, from where Douglas sneaked over right tackle standing up for the touchdown. Kast’s place ment try again was wide,
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)
Princeton 56% to win. Dartmouth won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Princeton gameDartmouth leads 42–38–3 in 83 meetings, counting the 60 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 gamevs. CornellNov. 14, 1942
- SeasonDartmouth in 1942
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Princeton
- Next gamevs. YaleNov. 14, 1942
- SeasonPrinceton in 1942
- ProgramPrinceton history and records

