Bates vs. Dartmouth
Bates and Dartmouth have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Dartmouth leads the series 8–0 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Dartmouth 8–0, and Dartmouth has won the last 8. Share
- Bates wins
- 0
- Dartmouth wins
- 8
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1895
- Longest streak
- 8 Dartmouth
- Current streak
- 8 Dartmouth
- Last 10 meetings
- Dartmouth 8–0
- Most recent
- 1938
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 33.9 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Dartmouth
- 8–0 Dartmouth’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 8
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Dartmouth’s biggest win1935: Dartmouth 59, Bates 0by 59 points
Both programs through the years
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

1915 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 14, 1915

1937 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 27, 1937

1938 · The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, Sep 26, 1938
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, 1938 | Dartmouth 46, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Sep 25, 1937 | Dartmouth 39, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 12, 1935 | Dartmouth 59, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 14, 1933 | Dartmouth 14, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 4, 1930 | Dartmouth 20, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Nov 13, 1915 | Dartmouth 29, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Sep 21, 1912 | Dartmouth 26, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 12, 1895 | Dartmouth 38, Bates 0 | at Dartmouth |
Every game is listed as played on the field.