Dartmouth vs. Navy

Dartmouth and Navy have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1929; Navy leads the series 4–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Navy 4–⁠0, and Navy has won the last 3.

Dartmouth wins
0
Navy wins
4
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1929
Longest streak
3 Navy
Current streak
3 Navy
Last 10 meetings
Navy 4–⁠0
Most recent
1986

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s0–⁠1
1930s0–⁠0–⁠1
1950s0–⁠2
1980s0–⁠1
Average margin
27 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Dartmouth
0–⁠1–⁠1 Dartmouth’s record at home
At Navy
3–⁠0 Navy’s record at home
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Navy’s biggest win1953: Navy 55, Dartmouth 7by 48 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Dartmouth and Navy, 1929 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story of the 1929 game: MIDDIES WIN FINAL GAME Uncork Smashing Offense To Defeat Dartmouth BY 1876 Score

    1929 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Dec 1, 1929

  • The Evening star's story of the 1939 game: Navy Oupaw Dartmouth Baltimore Grid Battle That Ends Scorees Edges Out Detroit n 13 Georgetown and Syracuse Quit Win, Lose or Draw A Few Saturday Football Honeovers

    1939 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 15, 1939

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Gottuso PAGES Middies' Attack In 55-7 Rout of Dartmouth

    1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 4, 1953

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Navy Holds Rough Drill; Passing Attack Shorpened

    1954 · Evening star, Oct 5, 1954

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 4, 1986Navy 45, Dartmouth 0at Navy
Oct 2, 1954Navy 42, Dartmouth 7at Dartmouth
Oct 3, 1953Navy 55, Dartmouth 7at Navy
Oct 14, 1939Dartmouth 0, Navy 0at Dartmouth
Nov 30, 1929Navy 13, Dartmouth 6at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.