Army vs. Dartmouth

Army and Dartmouth have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Army leads the series 6–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Army 6–⁠1, and Army has won the last 4.

Army wins
6
Dartmouth wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1895
Longest streak
4 Army
Current streak
4 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 6–⁠1
Most recent
1983

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s2–⁠0
1950s3–⁠1
1980s1–⁠0
Average margin
19.4 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
6–⁠1 Army’s record at home
Shutouts
2

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Army’s biggest win1954: Army 60, Dartmouth 6by 54 points
  2. Dartmouth’s biggest win1951: Dartmouth 28, Army 14by 14 points
  3. Upset1951: Dartmouth 28, Army 14Dartmouth had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsArmySeriesDartmouth
1951–⁠1954Red Blaik3–⁠1DeOrmond McLaughry

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Army’s side (Blaik 3–⁠1 against McLaughry). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and Dartmouth, 1895 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The morning times's story of the 1895 game: NO MATCH FOR WEST POINT. Dartmouth Easily Defeated by the SoldierS-ScOre, 6 to o.

    1895 · The morning times, Oct 27, 1895

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1899 game: CADETS DEFEAT DARTMOUTH. VEST POINT MEN SUCCESSFUL BY a SCORE OF

    1899 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 29, 1899

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Dartmouth Beats Army 1914; Columbia Whips Ya|e 14O kentucky Finds Scoring Punch, Beats Mississippi Stote1 27-O

    1951 · Evening star, Oct 14, 1951

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game: Sophomore Pete vann Leads Cadets Romp Over Big Green, 37-7

    1952 · Evening star, Oct 12, 1952

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: NAVY, 26 CORNELL, s Vann's Passes Beat Dartmouth for Army, |27-O, After Slow Start

    1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 11, 1953

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 24, 1983Army 13, Dartmouth 12at Army
Oct 9, 1954Army 60, Dartmouth 6at Army
Oct 10, 1953Army 27, Dartmouth 0at Army
Oct 11, 1952Army 37, Dartmouth 7at Army
Oct 13, 1951Dartmouth 28, Army 14at Army
Oct 28, 1899Army 6, Dartmouth 2at Army
Oct 26, 1895Army 6, Dartmouth 0at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.