Cornell at Dartmouth

Saturday, November 17, 1945

Cornell beat Dartmouth 20–⁠13. It was their 29th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 14–⁠14–⁠1.

AwayCornell5–⁠4 in 1945
20
HomeDartmouth1–⁠6–⁠1 in 1945
13

FinalHigh 34°F, low 20°F, 0.2 in. of snowAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 18, 1945, page 24

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    HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 17.-After getting away to q jittery start on a snow-covered gridiron, Cornell settled down and wrested hard won 20–⁠13 victory from hard fighting Dartmouth today in their 29th football renewal The Indians, denied a victory in this series since the famous fifth down” game here in 1910, capitalized on the first of Cornell’s four fumbles for an early touchdown. The ball slipped away from Allan Dekdebrun when he tried tn feed

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 68% to win. Cornell pulled the upset.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 24, Cornell 14
2024Cornell 39, Dartmouth 22
2023Dartmouth 30, Cornell 14
2022Cornell 17, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 41, Cornell 7
2019Cornell 20, Dartmouth 17

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