Dartmouth at Yale

Saturday, November 1, 1947

Yale beat Dartmouth 23–⁠14. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Yale led the series 21–⁠6–⁠4.

AwayDartmouth4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1947
14
HomeYale6–⁠3 in 1947
23

FinalHigh 51°F, low 25°F, 0.08 in. of rainAttendance 63,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Yale Halls Final Rally By Dartmouth 10 Win, .23-14, Before $1,000

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 2, 1947, page 44

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    Yale Halls Final Rally By Dartmouth 10 Win, .23-14, Before $1,000 NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. l. Tallying all its points In the first three periods, Yale stood OF clos ing Dartmouth rally to lick the Indians, 23 to IA, in an Ivy League football battle today before q near capacity crowd of $1,000. The Ellis took advantage of Dart mouth misplays and combined them with brilliant running and passing attack. Ferd (the Bulb Nadherny tailed twice for the Blue and Bill Booze converted twice and kicked a field goal from q difficult angle while standing on the 25-yard line to give Yale a 17-point advantage at the intermission. Then, in the third quarter, Tex Furse to John Setear pass climaxed a 70-yard drive for a tally and Booze kicked the goal. But the Dartmouth team suddenly found itself and began to. click. Ironically, it was Yale tumble and a spectacular 160-pound sub Ed williams, that sparked the In dams and provided some of the games most exciting moments from then on in. Wilcomb Washburn fell on Jim Fuchs muff on the Yale 2f and quickly advanced to the 10 as the fignal quarter opened. Within 80 seconds, Herb Carey crashed over from the half-foot lint and added the extra point. Then, with the Yale line showing signs of fading. Dartmouth twice drove deep into Blue territory, once to the is and the next time to the 2 only to collapse. But. with little over a minute to 60, Dartmouth rallied again, this time to the from where Williams slipped wide around his left end to register Carey converted. For the first time this season, Lew Jackson, Yale’s ace in 1916, showed signs OF having regained some o1 his freshman year form.

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)

Yale 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 50–⁠33–⁠5 in 88 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Yale 28, Dartmouth 7
2025Dartmouth 17, Yale 16
2024Dartmouth 44, Yale 43
2023Yale 31, Dartmouth 24
2022Yale 24, Dartmouth 21
2021Dartmouth 24, Yale 17

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