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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠6–⁠1
1900s0–⁠1
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

  1. Dartmouth’s biggest win1894: Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0by 42 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bowdoin and Dartmouth, 1890 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 Portland daily press's story of the 1896 game: BOWDOIN FOUGHT HARD. Dartmouth Foot BaIlists Given Good Battle. MAINE MEN SCORE TWO TOUCH DOWNS AT HANOVER.

    1896 · The Portland daily press, Oct 29, 1896

  • The The Portland daily press's story of the 1899 game: Bowdoin Badly Beaten By Dartmouth. Yale Defeats Bates 90 to 0 With Second Eleven.

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

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1901 game: ON The GRIDIRON. Coburn Wins Hot Game from Rents Hill, 5 10 0. Phi|Iips-Exter, IS; Colby, SHUTS, 10; U. Of Maine, 5. Dartmouth. IS: Bowdoin. g.. Other Colleae and School Games.

    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, 1901Dartmouth 35, Bowdoin 6at Bowdoin
Oct 7, 1899Dartmouth 37, Bowdoin 0at Dartmouth
Oct 8, 1898Dartmouth 35, Bowdoin 6at Dartmouth
Oct 24, 1896Dartmouth 28, Bowdoin 10at Dartmouth
Oct 9, 1895Bowdoin 10, Dartmouth 10at Bowdoin
Nov 3, 1894Dartmouth 14, Bowdoin 0at Bowdoin
Oct 27, 1894Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0at Dartmouth
Nov 1, 1890Dartmouth 42, Bowdoin 0at Dartmouth

Every game is listed as played on the field.