Colby at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 4, 1913

Dartmouth beat Colby 53–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayColby1–⁠1 in 1913
0
HomeDartmouth7–⁠1 in 1913
53

FinalHigh 65°F, low 52°F

In the newspapers

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: Colby Overwhelmed By Dartmouth, $50.

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., October 6, 1913, page 1

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    Colby Overwhelmed By Dartmouth, $50. Hanover, n. H, oct. Both Colby and Dartmouth completely reversed the shoWings made, last week, the Green coming back strong. Saturday. and trouncing the Maine boys. 5S to .. Dartmouth got the jump on the Wis itors and held it to the finish. Colby Kicked off to Ghee. who made u pretty return OF the bail. Immediately the Dartmouth Team lined up, with the eXeeption of Loudon. who Was tieing his shoestring at the sidelines unnoticed to all. Ghee threw Il perfect forward pass to the Dartmouth right end, who raced 50 yards 1t was but a few moments before Ambrose took the ball over for the first score on the fifth play of the game. Chez lost the kiekeut fer Il goal. Capt Hogsett rushed the bail back A. yards on the next kickoff. a few runts were exchanged and Curtis made the second touchdown. The kicking of the goal by SNOW ended the period. Dartmouth kicked off To fraser. Beer secured Il tumble on the next play. but Dartmouth after rushing the ball down he field was held for downs. the only time in the game. at coiby’s 12yard line. After the latter was forced 10 punt. Snow went through right tackle fer – yards, making touchdown. Colby then was dangerous for the sole time. but was held for downs on Dartmouth’s eight-Aard line. \ thrilling incident of the game was a 50yard run by Dunbar, closing the period. He intercepted a Colby pass at exactly midfield and made the fourth touchdown, Snow kicking the goal. The second half Was featured by long runs and hard punting by fraser for Colby and Curtis for Dartmouth. The latter made almost equal dis tances with and against the wind. and easily averaged SIS yards. The touch downs Wexe contributed by Whitney Snow. Cumiskey and Loudon. The last mentioned picked up f’raser’s FUN BILE and ran 80 yards To the goal line. Snow kicked the goal at an angle of g.. degrees. The summary:

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 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1923Dartmouth 62, Colby 0
1913Dartmouth 53, Colby 0

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