Bowdoin vs. Dartmouth
Bowdoin and Dartmouth have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1890; Dartmouth leads the series 7–0–1 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Dartmouth 7–0, and Dartmouth has won the last 4. Share
- Bowdoin wins
- 0
- Dartmouth wins
- 7
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1890
- Longest streak
- 4 Dartmouth
- Current streak
- 4 Dartmouth
- Last 10 meetings
- Dartmouth 7–0
- Most recent
- 1901
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 26.4 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Bowdoin
- 0–2–1 Bowdoin’s record at home
- At Dartmouth
- 5–0 Dartmouth’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Dartmouth’s biggest win1894: Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0by 42 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

1896 · The Portland daily press, Oct 29, 1896

1899 · The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., Oct 9, 1899

1901 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 28, 1901
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
| Oct 26, 1901 | Dartmouth 35, Bowdoin 6 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Oct 7, 1899 | Dartmouth 37, Bowdoin 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 8, 1898 | Dartmouth 35, Bowdoin 6 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 24, 1896 | Dartmouth 28, Bowdoin 10 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 9, 1895 | Bowdoin 10, Dartmouth 10 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Nov 3, 1894 | Dartmouth 14, Bowdoin 0 | at Bowdoin | ||
| Oct 27, 1894 | Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Nov 1, 1890 | Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0 | at Dartmouth |
Every game is listed as played on the field.