Dartmouth at Princeton

Saturday, November 24, 1951

No. 5 Princeton beat Dartmouth 13–⁠0. It was their 31st meeting; after it, Princeton led the series 18–⁠10–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth4–⁠5 in 1951
0
Home5Princeton9–⁠0 in 1951
13

FinalHigh 54°F, low 43°F, 0.09 in. of rainAttendance 27,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 25, 1951, page 53

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    led the offense right to the goal line. The key play was Kazmaier’s s 14-yard pass to Len Lyons to put the ball two and one-half yards from a touchdown. This was the play on which Kazmaier was in jured. 1t took Russ Mcneil three plungeS to carry it over, and the Iconversion failed. Princeton’s second touchdown was scored less than four minutes after the second half opened. Te set it up, Ted McLain, Princeton center, leaped on the ball wher Dick Collins fumbled on the Dartmouth 6. Bill Tryon ther passed to Dick Pivorotto in the end zone. Dartmouth never had a chance on the ground, making only a net Iof two yards against 234 fo1 Princeton. Partmouth ------------o Q O. princeton --------0 6 2 0–⁠13 Scoring. Princeton, touchdowns-Mc- Neil, Piyorotto. Conversion--McNeil.

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)

Princeton 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 42–⁠38–⁠3 in 83 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.

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2023Dartmouth 23, Princeton 21
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2021Dartmouth 31, Princeton 7
2019Dartmouth 27, Princeton 10

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