Dartmouth at Yale

Saturday, November 3, 1956

Yale beat Dartmouth 19–⁠0. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 25–⁠11–⁠4.

AwayDartmouth5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1956
0
HomeYale8–⁠1 in 1956
19

FinalHigh 52°F, low 45°F, 0.01 in. of rainAttendance 33,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Yale Gets Scare But Wins, 1910, Over Dartmouth

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1956, page 1

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    Yale Gets Scare But Wins, 1910, Over Dartmouth NEW HAVEN, Nov. 3 (R.-- Crippled Dartmouth gambled by coaxing Yale into wide-open football today and while 1t lost, 1910, the Indians tossed a big second half scare at the Eli in an exciting battle. The winners, who share the Ivy League lead with Prince ton, Tailed twice in the OPEN ing half and then found them selves fighting desperately to stop Dartmouth during most of a wild second half. Yale’s touchdown twins, AL Ward and Dennis McGill, accounted for two of the three touchdowns. Ward tailed in the opening quarter on a l2-yard pass from Dean Loucks and Nc Gill scored on spectacular 90 yard run midway in the second. The final Yale touchdown came with only two seconds left to play when two reserves, Char lie Peet and Ted Loud, combined on a 10-yard pass which Loud caught in the end zone. Vern Loucks converted after Wards touchdown.

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)

Yale 74% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 50–⁠33–⁠5 in 88 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Yale 28, Dartmouth 7
2025Dartmouth 17, Yale 16
2024Dartmouth 44, Yale 43
2023Yale 31, Dartmouth 24
2022Yale 24, Dartmouth 21
2021Dartmouth 24, Yale 17

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