Dartmouth at Brown

Saturday, October 28, 1944

Dartmouth beat Brown 14–⁠13. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 18–⁠11–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth2–⁠5–⁠1 in 1944
14
HomeBrown3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1944
13

FinalHigh 45°F, low 33°FAttendance 8,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story: YoIe g Dartmouth Game Saturday

    The Waterbury Democrat, October 30, 1944, page 14

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    YoIe g Dartmouth Game Saturday HOWie OdeltG Yale boys iJl blue were half way through their eight game football schedule today with- out defeat, and united, and urdIs- puted leader Of the Connecticut CoI- lege circuit. The YaIers, looking forward to their traditional game with Dart mouth Saturday on the heavy end Of their schedule, looked good in tak- ing over the University of R0ches- ter Yellow Jackets 32-O last Sattir- day before the smallest bowl attend ance of the year. But three of the Eli mainstays viii be lost to the team for the balance of the season due to military transfers. They were Vest Hansen, Jack Prchiik and Frankie GilliS, two nnesmen and a back who figured prominently in the four Yale victories 50 far. While Yale was shuttin gOut Rochester. the Dartmouth eleven was being hard pressed to top Brown 14–⁠13. University of Connecticut Toped in Brooklyn College of New York 15-O and prepared to play a return game with City College, at New York Saturday with the odds favor ing a repeat victory. Coast Guard, meanwhile, fell a victim to Holy Gross 26–⁠14 Sunday and tackles Brown at Providence this Saturday for another tough eri- counter.

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 52% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠24–⁠3 in 81 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Brown 35, Dartmouth 28
2024Dartmouth 56, Brown 28
2023Dartmouth 38, Brown 13
2022Dartmouth 30, Brown 7
2021Dartmouth 52, Brown 31
2019Dartmouth 29, Brown 23

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