Dartmouth at Harvard

Saturday, November 5, 1904

Dartmouth and Harvard tied 0–⁠0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 18–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth7–⁠0–⁠1 in 1904
0
HomeHarvard7–⁠2–⁠1 in 1904
0

FinalHigh 46°F, low 27°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: DARTMOUTH TIED HARVARD. New Hampshire Team Just Missed Field Goal

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1904, page 9

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    DARTMOUTH TIED HARVARD. New Hampshire Team Just Missed Field Goal Harvard and Dartmouth fought it out Saturday at Cambridge for fifty minutes on Soldiers Field, with neither side able to score single point. Once in the first half Harvard had the ball on Dartmouth’s thirteen-yard line. but missed by few inches making the necessary five yards. Dart mouth came near scoring just at the end of the first half With thirteen yards to gain on the third down, Glaze, the Dartmouth right end, tried for goal from the field from Harvard’s forty-seven-yard line. The ball was passed true to the quarter, who held 1t for the kick which went sailing apparently straight for the goal The Dart mouth partisans, who We’re present by the thousands, rose, and shrieked with delight but the ball went few feet wide. In the second half Dartmouth rushed the ball down the field forty-five yards to Harvard s twenty three-yard line, but here the Harward defense grew so fierce that Dartmouth fumbled and Harvard got the ball. Except for GlaZe’s kick and magnificent tackle by Starr, the little freshman Harward quarter, after Main had broken through the Harvard line, and with two Dartmouth men interference was run ming with an open field before him for touchdown, the game was not a spectacular one from the Spectators standpoint STAIRS tackle was an especially pretty one as he broke through two Main supporters upsetting them completely, and nailed the runner low and hard. ar

  • The Deseret evening news's story: ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. Harvard and Dartmouth Fight a Draw Aggies Again Badly Beaten.

    Deseret evening news, Great Salt Lake City [Utah], November 7, 1904, page 7

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    ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. Harvard and Dartmouth Fight a Draw Aggies Again Badly Beaten. Cambridge. Mass, Nov j-Harvard and Dartmouth fought without score today, with the horHrs of the game slightly In favor of Dartmouth. Both teams put up “a strong defense Harvard reached Dart months Vineyard line and lost tho bail ON downs and Dartmouth met the same tate On Ilaryards oightoen-yard line. II was “a u.hing game. with few spectacular ends runs and very little kicking Tho only brilliant run OF the game was Nauehns f0rtr-y1Il dash around llar. yUrd’ right end while Glazot’s try for “a field goal from lldryard’s fprty-hyo-ydrd Inc was an exciting moment The ball missed the goal post by foot.

  • The The morning Astorian's story: THREE HURT IN CONTEST Caliiornia.Nsvada Game Results In Injury Of Serious Nature to Milfred fiamlin. HARVARD MEETS ITS MASTER Dartmouth Outplayett Cam. bridge Teaul, Although There Was No Score Results es of Other Games.

    The morning Astorian, Astoria, Oregon, November 6, 1904, page 8

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    THREE HURT IN CONTEST Caliiornia.Nsvada Game Results In Injury Of Serious Nature to Milfred fiamlin. HARVARD MEETS ITS MASTER Dartmouth Outplayett Cam. bridge Teaul, Although There Was No Score Results es of Other Games. Berkeley. Nov, S.--California defeat, ed Nevada, i6–⁠0. today. s’gae During the contest three Nevada men were injured, wilfred Hamlm the big center, had his hip dislocated and may never play football again. The scoring was done by California In the tirst half. In the second halt the California team was changed and Nevada made better showing,

  • The Little Falls herald's story: SATURDAYS FOOTBALL SCORES.

    Little Falls herald, Minnesota, November 11, 1904, page 7 (results column)

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    SATURDAYS FOOTBALL SCORES. Minnesota, 50: Lawrence, 0. Kansas u, “a; Notre Dame, 5. Pennsylvania, %; Lafayette, 0. Wisconsin, SO; Beloit, 0. Chicago, 68; Texas, 0. Harvard, 0: Dartmouth. 0. Cornell, so; Lehigh, 5. Northwestern, 81; Oshkosh, 0. Michigan, 80; Drake, 4. Washington W., II; Missouri, 0. Yale, %; Brown, 0. Nebraska, II; Iowa, 0. Princeton, 13; West Point, 6.

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 51% to win.

Harvard leads 63–⁠40–⁠4 in 107 meetings, counting the 87 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Harvard 31, Dartmouth 10
2024Harvard 31, Dartmouth 27
2023Harvard 17, Dartmouth 9
2022Harvard 28, Dartmouth 13
2021Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
2019Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6

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