Dartmouth at Yale
Saturday, November 4, 1944 Share
Yale beat Dartmouth 6–0. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 18–6–4.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 36°FAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers

The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, November 5, 1944, page 1
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YALE DEFEATS DARTMOUTH, 60 NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. 4. - P)-A neat hunk of strategy which setup a nifty 25-ya-d touchdown gallop by Paul Walker, Yale’s big boy blue, enabled the unbeaten and united Ellis to blank Dartmouth 60 today and record their fifth straight football win. The seasons biggest Yale Bowl crowd of 10000 saw the ancient Ivy league rivals put on one Of their typical shows, with the Blue emerging the victor in this 18th fracas only after hating a furious Dartmouth assault in the daying moments of the contest. After a scoreless opening period, in which the Yale’s showed their superiority as they did during most of the battle-and a poor start in the second when Bob Roberts Placement from the IS was blocked. The Ellis connected folwhat proved to be the ball game.

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 5, 1944, page 15 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES Western q, U. of D. High 6. Cooley as, Wright O. Fordson “a, Crosse Pointe 0. River Rouge 19. Wyandotte 0. Hazel Park 20, Birmingham 6. BIG TEN Michigan Al, Penn 19 Ohio State 81, Indiana Z. Minnesota Ia. Northwestern II. Iowa q, Nebraska 6. Purdue IS, Wisconsin 0. STATE COLLEGIATE Missouri 13, Michigan State 7. EAST Navy 80. Notre Dame Is. Army S3, Villanova 0. Penn State Al. Syracuse 0. Yale 6. Dartmouth 0. Cornell Is, Columbia Z. West Virginia 6, Temple 0. Swarthmore %. F. and NJ. 0. Rutgers 19, Lehigh s. Muhlenberg IA, Atlantic City Z. Sampson Navy 80, Scranton 0. Maine 26. Norwich s. Bucknell 26, N. Y. u. 0. Coast Guard 20, Brown 0. Rochester 10. Case 0. Lafayette “a, UrsinuS 81. Connecticut 50. c. c. n. Y. 0. Melville PIT as, Boston College 0. SOUTH Duke 10, Georgia Tech -. Georgia Ia, Alabama Z. Miss. State %. Kentucky 0. Wake Forest Is. Clemson z. s. Carolina s. n. Carolina 0. Jackson AAB 10, Mississippi O. n. c. State q. “ NJ. l. 6. Tenn. State l9. Fla A. NJ. Z. Auburn 81, Presbyterian 0. Tuskegee 19, Morris Brown 0. SOUTHWEST TCU 10. Chatham 0. Randolph Ed. 6S, N. Tex. Az. 0. Texas “a, S. NJ. u. Z. Arkansas Z. Texas A. NJ. S. Texas Tech ID, Rice 7s MIDWEST Oklahoma u, Iowa State 7. Baldwin-Wal. 20. Ohio. Yves. u Kansas 33, Olathe Navy IA. Iowa Pre-. AZ, Tulsa 81. Wooster q, Oberlin 20. Kan. State Is, Wichita o. Norman Navy Is, Okla. A. NJ. O. Ill. Normal IS, Macomb 6. Depauw 9. Ill. Wesleyan Z. Cape Girardeau rs. So. Ill. Nor. Z Mo. Valley Is, Rockhurst Is. FAR WEST Utah 0. Denver O. Colorado 80, New Mexico 0. u. s. c. IS, San Diego d. Utah State q. Idaho SO. s. Coast Guard II, California s. Camp Beale 80. Mcclellan O.

Evening star, November 6, 1944, page 14 (results column)
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|Armistice Day Brings Speeded Pace in Strife on Gridiron while the Seahawks wait until Sun day to play the unbeaten Bunker Hill Naval Station. Navy tosses its stonewalL defense against Cornell, a 25-to-7 victor over Columbia. The Lions meet Penn in an Ivy League game. I’m beaten Yale, extended to whip Dartmouth by 6-to-0 edge, takes on Brown, a 20-to-0 victim of Coast Guard Academy. Bears. U. c. L. A., Repeat. In the Far West California visits U. c. l.. A. and Washington is host to the powerful Fourth Air Force outfit. The California–U. C. L. A. fray is the second of the year. the Bears winning the first 6 to 0 on September 30. Arkansas, remaining in the South west Conference picture with a Z to-6 triumph over Texas A. and M. entertains Rice, spilled by Texas Tech and the Texas Longhorns. who crushed Southern Methodist, “a to 7. next take on Oklahoma A. and M. The Aggies, who burst Tulsa’s bub- BILE week earlier, were spilled in turn by the Norman (Oklahoma) Naval Base, Is to 0. Bainbridge Navy yesterday walloped North Carolina Prefiight, ~ to 20.
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 67% to win. Yale pulled the upset.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Yale gameYale leads 50–33–5 in 88 meetings, counting the 60 since this game.
| 2026 | Yale 28, Dartmouth 7 | |
| 2025 | Dartmouth 17, Yale 16 | |
| 2024 | Dartmouth 44, Yale 43 | |
| 2023 | Yale 31, Dartmouth 24 | |
| 2022 | Yale 24, Dartmouth 21 | |
| 2021 | Dartmouth 24, Yale 17 |
Around this game
Dartmouth
- Next gamevs. Coast GuardNov. 11, 1944
- SeasonDartmouth in 1944
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. BrownNov. 11, 1944
- SeasonYale in 1944
- ProgramYale history and records

