Cornell at Dartmouth

Saturday, November 16, 1957

Dartmouth beat Cornell 20–⁠19. It was their 41st meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 21–⁠19–⁠1.

AwayCornell3–⁠6 in 1957
19
HomeDartmouth7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1957
20

FinalHigh 57°F, low 34°F, 0.01 in. of rainAttendance 13,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Dartmouth Nips Cornell To Take Ivy Lead, 20-19

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1957, page 1

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    Dartmouth Nips Cornell To Take Ivy Lead, 20–⁠19 HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 16 B.-Bill Gundy. reserve quarterback, engineered an Coward touchdown march in the closing minutes today to enable Dart mouth to edge Cornell, 20–⁠19, and take over first place in the Ivy League. Dartmouth holds a half game lead over Princeton, up set today by Yale. The two contenders play for the title at Princeton next Saturday. Gundy, a 6-foot-1 sophomore from Rye. N. Y, was the big gun as the Indians stormed from behind after being stung by two Cornell touchdowns within six minutes Of the OPEN ing kickoff. Mixing up his attack like a seasoned veteran, Gundy set up Dartmouth for q touchdown on the opening play of the fourth period and then pulled his forces together for another payoff punch. Gundy led the Indians down.

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 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 46 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Dartmouth 24, Cornell 14
2024Cornell 39, Dartmouth 22
2023Dartmouth 30, Cornell 14
2022Cornell 17, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 41, Cornell 7
2019Cornell 20, Dartmouth 17

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