Colgate at Dartmouth
Saturday, October 17, 1953 Share
Colgate beat Dartmouth 24–14. It was their seventh meeting; after it, the series stood even at 3–3–1.
FinalHigh 71°F, low 30°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 18, 1953, page 67
Read the text
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.
The series
Every Colgate–Dartmouth gameColgate leads 12–6–1 in 19 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.
| 2023 | Colgate 27, Dartmouth 24 | |
| 2019 | Dartmouth 38, Colgate 3 | |
| 2011 | Dartmouth 37, Colgate 20 | |
| 2009 | Colgate 34, Dartmouth 15 | |
| 2008 | Colgate 34, Dartmouth 20 | |
| 2007 | Colgate 31, Dartmouth 28 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gameat YaleOct. 24, 1953
- SeasonColgate in 1953
- ProgramColgate history and records
Dartmouth
- Next gameat HarvardOct. 24, 1953
- SeasonDartmouth in 1953
- ProgramDartmouth history and records

