Brown at Dartmouth

Sunday, November 23, 1902

Dartmouth beat Brown 12–⁠6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Brown led the series 5–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayBrown5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1902
6
HomeDartmouth6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1902
12

FinalHigh 47°F, low 24°F

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: DARTMOUTH, 12; BROWN, 6. A Close and Hard fought Game Played at Manchester, NJ. II.

    Daily Kennebec journal, November 24, 1902, page 2

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    DARTMOUTH, 12; BROWN, 6. A Close and Hard fought Game Played at Manchester, NJ. II. Manchester, n. H.. Nov. 33.-Dartmouth and Brown met in this city. Saturday. in their annual game, the former winning. l. to g. 1t was an excellent exhibition o: football, the two teams undoubtedly being the fastest of any of the minor col leses At the outset Brown ran the nall to within one yard of Dartmouths goal line, where the latter held and forced the ball back by strong offensive play and scored a touchdown. At the beginning of the second half Barry of Brown. received the ball on the kickoff and carried ii back 40 yards by a most sensational run Starting on DartmouthS 3S-yard line Brown rushed the ball by fierce on slaughts until Lynch carried the ball across the line. Cotter kicked the goal and the score was a tie. to 6. Brown started in strong on the next kickoff. but Dartmouth braced and by fierce offensive play scored again Knibbs carried the ball over and Vaughn kicked the goal. Score Dartmouth, II; Brown, 8. The

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 63% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 54–⁠24–⁠3 in 81 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Brown 35, Dartmouth 28
2024Dartmouth 56, Brown 28
2023Dartmouth 38, Brown 13
2022Dartmouth 30, Brown 7
2021Dartmouth 52, Brown 31
2019Dartmouth 29, Brown 23

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