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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠1
1910s0–⁠2
1930s0–⁠5
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

  1. Dartmouth’s biggest win1935: Dartmouth 59, Bates 0by 59 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bates 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 New-York tribune's story of the 1915 game: DARTMOUTH VICTOR IN RAGGED GAME Plays Poorly, but Rolls Up Fair Score Against Bates.

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

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1937 game: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

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

  • The The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current's story of the 1938 game: Football Results

    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, 1938Dartmouth 46, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Sep 25, 1937Dartmouth 39, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Oct 12, 1935Dartmouth 59, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Oct 14, 1933Dartmouth 14, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Oct 4, 1930Dartmouth 20, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Nov 13, 1915Dartmouth 29, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Sep 21, 1912Dartmouth 26, Bates 0at Dartmouth
Oct 12, 1895Dartmouth 38, Bates 0at Dartmouth

Every game is listed as played on the field.