Dartmouth at Columbia

Saturday, November 10, 1951

Columbia beat Dartmouth 21–⁠6. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 14–⁠8.

AwayDartmouth4–⁠5 in 1951
6
HomeColumbia5–⁠3 in 1951
21

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Holy Cross Wins Sixth Of Year. Columbia Beats Dartmouth 26 Army Beats Citadel, ~ to 6, Behind Fred Meyers Pussinq

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 11, 1951, page 61

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    Holy Cross Wins Sixth Of Year. Columbia Beats Dartmouth 26 Army Beats Citadel, ~ to 6, Behind Fred Meyers Pussinq Meyers began pitching and racked up two touchdowns. Two Meyers passes to Goodwin Ordway. one good for 20 yards and another for 16. plus good runs by Tom Bell and John Wing ate up “a yards in the first drive, which ended when Wing plunged two yards for la touchdown. The Citadel. turned back twice inside the Army Is in the second Quarter. began to move just after the last Army score. Friedlin began Tipping short passes to Eel inski and the Bulldogs moved to the Army seven. Then Friedlin passed to Tim Britt, who squirmed away from an Army tackler on the five and went over. Bon Davis missed the conversion.

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 55% to win. Columbia won as Elo’s underdog.

Dartmouth leads 57–⁠16 in 73 meetings, counting the 51 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 49, Columbia 3
2024Dartmouth 24, Columbia 21
2023Dartmouth 20, Columbia 9
2022Dartmouth 27, Columbia 24
2021Columbia 19, Dartmouth 0
2019Dartmouth 59, Columbia 24

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