Dartmouth at Army

Saturday, October 9, 1954

Army beat Dartmouth 60–⁠6. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Army led the series 5–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth3–⁠6 in 1954
6
HomeArmy7–⁠2 in 1954
60

FinalHigh 68°F, low 43°FAttendance 23,250

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Cadets Rout Dartmouth by 6O-to-6 Score

    Evening star, October 10, 1954, page 58

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    Cadets Rout Dartmouth by 6O-to-6 Score WEST POINT, N. Y. Oct. o. Pete Vann, a slick quarterback with an arm like Willie Mays. threw three touchdown passes today as Army crushed Dart mouth. CO.’S. Navy beat the Big Green. 42–⁠7. a week ago. Vann, q 21-year-old right handler from Hamburg, N. Y. hit Don Holleder with scoring tosses of 81 and “A yards and then connected with Art johnson on a 61-yard play to complete one Of his finest days. Holleder. Incl dentally. was playing his first game Of the year after being disciplined” The fact that eight different men accounted for the nine Army touchdowns tells the kind of game 1t was. Holleder had two, while Pat Uebel. Tommy Bell, Mike zeigler, Dick Murtland, Joe Cygler. Glenn Allen and Johnson got one each. Dartmouth escaped a shutout by a rare break In the fourth period when Center Ed Szvetecz threw the ball about Is yards past his backfield and Bud Roth recovered for Dartmouth on the one. Tom Hamilton. son Of the Pitt athletic director. smashed across for the score. Dartmouth ---- Q O Sd Army ---------13 IA 10 14–⁠66 . Dartmouth scorins: Touchdown – Arm Arnsy scoring: Tcuchdowns- zeigier, HollsndsF s2l, Bell ueesl. Joi,nson, Chssnauskas (3j. Murtland. Wins Cysler.

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)

Army 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Army leads 6–⁠1 in seven meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1983Army 13, Dartmouth 12
1954Army 60, Dartmouth 6
1953Army 27, Dartmouth 0
1952Army 37, Dartmouth 7
1951Dartmouth 28, Army 14
1899Army 6, Dartmouth 2

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