Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Saturday, September 26, 1914

Dartmouth beat Massachusetts 29–⁠6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 7–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayMassachusetts0–⁠2 in 1914
6
HomeDartmouth8–⁠1 in 1914
29

FinalHigh 55°F, low 40°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: DARTMOUTH STARTS WELL Defeats Mass. Aggies with End Runs and Line Smashing.

    New-York tribune, September 27, 1914, page 13

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    DARTMOUTH STARTS WELL Defeats Mass. Aggies with End Runs and Line Smashing. Hanover, N. H., Sept. 26.-Dartmouth defeated the Massachusetts, “Aggies” in the opening football game Of the season this afternoon. The final score was 20 to 6. Dartmouth registered four touchdowns and a safety. while the “Aggies” scored two drop kicks, The first quarter ended with the “Ag- Ries” 8 and Dartmouth Q. Dartmouth came back in the second quarter and made l3 points. Dartmouth used line smashes and end runs entirely, and was slow and fumbled frequently. Cavauaugh was not pleased with the showing made by his team, but Arthur y. Bricks, the coach of the “Aggies, “ Said that the Dartmouth varsity gave more promise Of q winner than did the eleven of 1914.

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 95% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 15–⁠3–⁠1 in 19 meetings, counting the 11 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

Around this game

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