Dartmouth vs. Massachusetts
Dartmouth and Massachusetts have 19 meetings on file, the first in 1902; Dartmouth leads the series 15–3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Dartmouth 7–3, and Massachusetts has won the last 3. Share
- Dartmouth wins
- 15
- Massachusetts wins
- 3
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1902
- Longest streak
- 15 Dartmouth
- Current streak
- 3 Massachusetts
- Last 10 meetings
- Dartmouth 7–3
- Most recent
- 1981
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 4–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 6–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 19.5 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Dartmouth
- 13–1–1 Dartmouth’s record at home
- At Massachusetts
- 2–2 Massachusetts’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 9
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Dartmouth’s biggest win1916: Dartmouth 62, Massachusetts 0by 62 points
- Massachusetts’s biggest win1974: Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0by 14 points
- Upset1974: Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0Massachusetts had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1975: Massachusetts 7, Dartmouth 3Massachusetts had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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

1912 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 6, 1912

1914 · New-York tribune, Sep 27, 1914

1915 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Sep 26, 1915
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
Every game is listed as played on the field.