Colgate at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 17, 1953

Colgate beat Dartmouth 24–⁠14. It was their seventh meeting; after it, the series stood even at 3–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayColgate3–⁠4–⁠2 in 1953
24
HomeDartmouth2–⁠7 in 1953
14

FinalHigh 71°F, low 30°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: La|Ia Sparks Colgate To Victory, "a 10 IA

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 18, 1953, page 67

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    La|Ia Sparks Colgate To Victory, “a 10 IA HANOVER, N. H., Oct. IT, Co1gate’s durable Dick Lalla, playing So minutes, ran % yards for touchdown and fed Pepe Popovich a 27-yard scoring pass today as the Red Raiders gained their first football victory in four starts by humbling Dartmouth, 24–⁠14. While Dartmouth was going down to it’s sixth straight defeat it bowed to Cornell and Princeton late last season-it was outplayed widely from start to finish. Frank Nardulli ended an 81 yard Colgate drive by scoring from Dartmouth’s 13 and john ny Williams went over from the 8 after Art Fox recovered Frank Krol’s tumble on Dartmouth’s % late in the game. Colgate – IL ga Dartmouth 7 0 O ia vich, Nardulli. Lalla, Williams. Dartmouth scoring – Touchdowns: Turner, McKenna. Conversions: Beagle. McKenna.

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)

Colgate 50% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 12–⁠6–⁠1 in 19 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Colgate 27, Dartmouth 24
2019Dartmouth 38, Colgate 3
2011Dartmouth 37, Colgate 20
2009Colgate 34, Dartmouth 15
2008Colgate 34, Dartmouth 20
2007Colgate 31, Dartmouth 28

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