Dartmouth at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 5, 1957

Dartmouth beat Pennsylvania 6–⁠3. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 16–⁠7–⁠2.

AwayDartmouth7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1957
6
HomePennsylvania3–⁠6 in 1957
3

FinalHigh 67°F, low 54°FAttendance 13,966

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Long Dartmouth Drive Defeats Quokers, 6-3

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1957, page 82

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    Long Dartmouth Drive Defeats Quokers, 6–⁠3 tase Of is pass attack. clicking for the touchdown from the Penn six-yard line only after six seconds Of the Anal period had elapsed. The toss went from Quarterback Bin uundy to End Scott Palmer. Guard Joe Palermo was unable 10 set the extra-point boot away as the peln line swarmed over him. He made 4 wild attempt 10 pass but didn’t come close to q receiver. Dartmouth started the scoring drive on Its six after Penn had been stopped In one Of the Quakers’ two major scoring tries. Haifback Jack Crouthamel was the big weapon over land while ouarterhacks 0undy and Dave Bradley ham died the passing effectively. Penn tried no passes until late in the fourth period. depending entirely on line play with the great majority Of the running assignments going q Halfback Fred Doelling. Penns1i-yard field goal came with five seconds Of the ilrss half left. The kick was made hy Tackle John Oakhill. II was the first Penn field goal since the Red and Blue edged Navy. s-0, In 1883. nav ns,sh a a :

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)

Dartmouth 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 36–⁠34–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 47 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Dartmouth 14, Pennsylvania 10
2025Pennsylvania 36, Dartmouth 24
2024Dartmouth 20, Pennsylvania 17
2023Dartmouth 23, Pennsylvania 20
2022Pennsylvania 23, Dartmouth 17
2021Dartmouth 31, Pennsylvania 7

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