Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 5, 1912

Dartmouth beat Massachusetts 47–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 5–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayMassachusetts0–⁠1 in 1912
0
HomeDartmouth7–⁠2 in 1912
47

FinalHigh 79°F, low 33°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: MOREY BOOSTS THE GREEN Dartmouth Wins Easy Game with Massachusetts, Aggies.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 6, 1912, page 1

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    MOREY BOOSTS THE GREEN Dartmouth Wins Easy Game with Massachusetts, Aggies. Hanover. n. H.. oct 5.-Bafed by the shIfty formations Of the Green, the Massachusetts Aggies were the victims Of one sided game. in which Dartmouth began to show signs OF perfection OF the wonderful machine. Cavanaugh has not labored for Fix weeks for naught. for the final score was A. to 0. Dartmouth did not score in the second half The large score was due largely to the work of one man. Dave Morey. who has been suffering with charley horse. forgot his soreness and tore across the line for four touchdowns. The big half back took the ball on nearly every other play Bud” whitney. playing the other half, did some fine line plunging and showed his class at breaking interference. Only once was the Dartmouth goal In danger. On a recovered fumbled punt carried the ball within striking distance OF the Green goal. They gained their first down, but on an at tempted forward pass lost the ball. The second half was only tryout for Dart mouths reserve squad. The lineup follows:

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 93% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 15–⁠3–⁠1 in 19 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.

Recent meetings
1981Massachusetts 10, Dartmouth 8
1975Massachusetts 7, Dartmouth 3
1974Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0
1971Dartmouth 31, Massachusetts 7
1970Dartmouth 27, Massachusetts 0
1967Dartmouth 28, Massachusetts 10

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