Dartmouth at Amherst

Saturday, November 1, 1913

Dartmouth beat Amherst 21–⁠7. It was their 21st meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 15–⁠3–⁠3.

AwayDartmouth7–⁠1 in 1913
21
HomeAmherst0–⁠2 in 1913
7

FinalHigh 47°F, low 23°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: DARTMOUTH LINE IS CROSSED BY AMHERST Starting with Substitutes. Team from Hanover Closes with Full Strength. FINAL SCORE IS n TO 7 Rider Dislocates Shoulder in Making a Tackle-Losers Gaining Ground Fast as Time Is Called.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 2, 1913, page 13

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    DARTMOUTH LINE IS CROSSED BY AMHERST Starting with Substitutes. Team from Hanover Closes with Full Strength. FINAL SCORE IS n TO 7 Rider Dislocates Shoulder in Making a Tackle-Losers Gaining Ground Fast as Time Is Called. Amherst, Mass, Nov 1.-The Amherst | iootbaE team surprised the heavy and / fast Dartmouth eleven i’m an exciting and snappy game played here to-day by / not only crossing the visitors goal line. / but holding them down to the unexpect- ! eddy low score Of q to : | The men from Hanover came down with / the expectation of rolling up about eight / or nine touchdowns. and these with tho use of four second string men But Coach ! Cavanaugh figured Nithout his host ! Soon after the end Of the first period | Dartmouth sent in the regulars, and the / team which played tine last three periods was equal in strength to the one which last week conquered Princeton. / The Amherst rooters were somewhat ! downcast on the first play. as after the | kickoff Curtis booted from his 2O-yarI ( lire 10 Hubbard, who fumbled on the ! So when Captain Hogsett swooped up the I ball and scored the touchdown and a mo- ment later kicked The goal Rather taken unawareS at this happen ! ing. the Amherst eleven came back with great deal of fight and held off the repeated attacks Of their opponents for the remainder OF the period. Four times the Dartmouth team was held for downs In Z this quarter and many times Llewellyn was forced TO call on Curtis TO Kick out of danger. When the second period started Dart mouth had the ball on Amherst’s 2O-yard line Two attempts at forward passes failed, while two attacks at the line only Melted four yards and gave the ball 10 Amherst On the same sort Of a play that en- abled the visitors to score Amherst also scored. Captain McGay was called on to punt out of danger. and, with a strong wind at his back, he sent the pigskin from his l4-yard line to the Dartmouth 2O-yard line Here it struck the ground and bounded over the head of the Green general, who just barely touched it. Phil Written, the fast Amherst end, was down the field with the ball, aud fell on II as 1t rolled over the Dartmouth goal line for the first score that the Purpie and White has made in the last three games The Dartmouth men were as founded. and at this point the fun strength Of the Dartmouth team was called into action. -Four men in green FASTENED TO the rescue of their mates. Dartmouth fought hard and scored twice in the second half. In the third quarter Llewellyn was forced 10 resort to wide end plays to bring the ball within striking distance. After having the ball within the 5-yard line twice. Llewellyn finally carried II over on the fourth down from the 2-yard mark. He also added point with his kick from touchdown. Cannon was the man who added the last score to the Dartmouth count. HIS touch- down was the result of much anxiety and hard work 1t took three tries at delaved passes to engineer the feat from the 3-yard margin. Hogsett recorded his second successful try at goal. After Amherst had scored its touch down and tied the score in the second neriod both teams went at the game ham mer and tongs with neither team having any advantage. The second hair started off with a rush and Amherst carried the ball from its l0-yard line to the 40. where McGay was forced TO punt. Here DART mouth showed great deal OF driving mower by carrying the ball from the | shadows of its goal line TO the Amherst 6-vard mark on straight old football. Put the Amherst team was aroused and nut UP a wonderful defence, forcing ma r.nouth 10 give up the ball on downs In this parade OF more than eighty-hve ,ards Murdoch did the Hons share OF the 1york He carried the ball at least seven | ,,nes. and at one session he plunged into the line three successive times for | Nrst downs. Amherst punted to mid- Geld and the same process followed. dartmouth losing the ball on the 3-yard | line. .,.,,. The last period found Amherst without tho services of Rider. who had been play ing a fine and steady game. both on the defence and offence. He dislocated ms sboulder in making tackle ! The final period was repetition OF the ! ,htrd with the exception Of the last -FOUR minutes OF play Al that stage Ind | Annberst men seemed to fnd renewed strenpth and put Dartmouth 10 rou,; | Worrying forward passes, they adVaicsu s,eadily from their OWL territory 10 tne Yarmouth 2O-yard line. where time was called.

  • The Salt Lake tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, Utah, November 2, 1913

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    DARTMOUTH WINS OVER AMHERST TEAM, 21–⁠7 AMHERST, Mass, Nov. dartmouth won a hard fought game from Amherst today, III TO Z. The contest closer than the scoro would indicate. Amherst holding the green for downs many times twice within the thrce-ygrd line. The game ended with the ball In hmhorst’s possession on Dartmouths flftcen-yard line after a march of fifty yards down the field with the scoro the end OF tho fiEst half I 20 I. Dartmouth In her regulars and by straight football scored touchdowns IN ;he third and fourth periods.

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 85% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 19–⁠3–⁠3 in 25 meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
1941Dartmouth 47, Amherst 7
1937Dartmouth 31, Amherst 7
1915Dartmouth 26, Amherst 0
1914Dartmouth 32, Amherst 0
1913Dartmouth 21, Amherst 7
1912Dartmouth 60, Amherst 0

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