Vermont at Dartmouth

Saturday, October 16, 1915

Dartmouth beat Vermont 60–⁠0. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 13–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayVermont0–⁠2 in 1915
0
HomeDartmouth7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1915
60

FinalHigh 67°F, low 44°F

In the newspapers

  • The New-York tribune's story: GREEN SWAMPS VERMONT ELEVEN WorthingtOn Runs Eighty five Yards for a Touch down for Dartmouth.

    New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], October 17, 1915, page 1

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    GREEN SWAMPS VERMONT ELEVEN WorthingtOn Runs Eighty five Yards for a Touch down for Dartmouth. Hanover, \. H., Oct. Dartmouth, although using second string men, romped through Vermont’s light line this afternoon, rolling up a total of 60 TO o. The Green goal line was in dan ger at no time during the game. while the Dartmouth backs appeared 10 have little trouble in advancing the ball. The chief feature of the game was the work Of the substitutes whom Cavanaugh has been developing during the last few weeks Worthington, the Olympic broad jumper. who went 10 quarterback in the middle of the contest. played a sensational game, at one time running So yards for touchdown. Dartmouth received the kickoff and punted Immediately. Vermont returned the kick 70 Holbrook, who fun bled on the Dartmouth 20-yard line. An attempted place kick was blocked by Cotton. Dartmouth punted TO mid field and blocked the return kick by Vermont. Cotton running 45 yards for d touchdown. Gerrish missed the goal. Vermont kicked off again to Dart mouth. but neither team could advance goal line before the quarter ended with the ball in Vermont’s possession in the middle of the field. On the first play OF the second quarter Emery caught misdirected forward pass, running thir- ~ yards. Duhamel went over for the second touchdown and Spears kicked the goal. Vermont again kicked off TO Duhamel, who ran fifty yards. Thielscher tore off twenty more, and in second plunge made another ten, placing the ball in n position for Holbrook to 60 over for another score Spears kicked the goal. Dartmuth kicked off to Dolphin, Of Yer mont, who ran il back twenty yards. Five touchdowns were scored in the third and fourth periods, as a result OF long runs by Worthington, Ponder and Tyler The game ended with the ball on Vermont’s 25-yard line. Z ! H..

  • The Evening star's story: Dartmouth Smothers Vermont.

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 17, 1915, page 59

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    Dartmouth Smothers Vermont. HANOVER, N. H, October 16.-Dartmouths second foot ball machine romped away with the University of vermont’s light line today. winning so to O. Worthington. a fourth string quarterback. whom Coach Cavanaugh has been developing this week, was easily the star of the game. His long runs, one of them for eighty-fve yards. featured Most of Dartmouth’s gains were made by trick plays and forward passes, the team playing together much better than last Saturday.

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 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Dartmouth leads 21–⁠1–⁠1 in 23 meetings, counting the nine since this game.

Recent meetings
1936Dartmouth 56, Vermont 0
1935Dartmouth 47, Vermont 0
1934Dartmouth 32, Vermont 0
1933Dartmouth 39, Vermont 6
1932Dartmouth 32, Vermont 0
1925Dartmouth 50, Vermont 0

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