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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s4–⁠0–⁠1
1910s6–⁠0
1960s3–⁠0
1970s2–⁠2
1980s0–⁠1
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

  1. Dartmouth’s biggest win1916: Dartmouth 62, Massachusetts 0by 62 points
  2. Massachusetts’s biggest win1974: Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0by 14 points
  3. Upset1974: Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0Massachusetts had a 13% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1975: Massachusetts 7, Dartmouth 3Massachusetts had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Dartmouth and Massachusetts, 1902 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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 1912 game: MOREY BOOSTS THE GREEN Dartmouth Wins Easy Game with Massachusetts, Aggies.

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

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1914 game: DARTMOUTH STARTS WELL Defeats Mass. Aggies with End Runs and Line Smashing.

    1914 · New-York tribune, Sep 27, 1914

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1915 game: FOOTBALL RESULTS

    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

Sep 26, 1981Massachusetts 10, Dartmouth 8at Massachusetts
Sep 27, 1975Massachusetts 7, Dartmouth 3at Massachusetts
Sep 28, 1974Massachusetts 14, Dartmouth 0at Dartmouth
Sep 25, 1971Dartmouth 31, Massachusetts 7at Massachusetts
Sep 26, 1970Dartmouth 27, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 30, 1967Dartmouth 28, Massachusetts 10at Massachusetts
Sep 24, 1966Dartmouth 17, Massachusetts 7at Dartmouth
Sep 29, 1962Dartmouth 27, Massachusetts 3at Dartmouth
Oct 11, 1919Dartmouth 27, Massachusetts 7at Dartmouth
Oct 14, 1916Dartmouth 62, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 25, 1915Dartmouth 13, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 26, 1914Dartmouth 29, Massachusetts 6at Dartmouth
Sep 27, 1913Dartmouth 13, Massachusetts 3at Dartmouth
Oct 5, 1912Dartmouth 47, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Oct 20, 1906Dartmouth 26, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 23, 1905Dartmouth 18, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 28, 1904Dartmouth 17, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Sep 26, 1903Dartmouth 12, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth
Oct 8, 1902Dartmouth 0, Massachusetts 0at Dartmouth

Every game is listed as played on the field.