Dartmouth vs. Springfield

Dartmouth and Springfield first met in 1892 and have played 5 times; Dartmouth leads the series 5–⁠0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Dartmouth 5–⁠0, and Dartmouth has won the last 5.

Dartmouth wins
5
Springfield wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1892
Longest streak
5 Dartmouth
Current streak
5 Dartmouth
Last 10 meetings
Dartmouth 5–⁠0
Most recent
1937

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠0
1900s1–⁠0
1910s2–⁠0
1930s1–⁠0
Average margin
21.8 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
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 win1937: Dartmouth 42, Springfield 0by 42 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Dartmouth and Springfield, 1892 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 sun's story of the 1919 game: DARTMOUTH TEAM GETS GOOD START Big Green Eleven TrampIes Springfield, 90 to O.

    1919 · The sun, New York, Sep 28, 1919

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 9, 1937Dartmouth 42, Springfield 0at Dartmouth
Sep 27, 1919Dartmouth 40, Springfield 0at Dartmouth
Oct 6, 1917Dartmouth 14, Springfield 0at Dartmouth
Nov 8, 1902Dartmouth 11, Springfield 0at Dartmouth
Oct 8, 1892Dartmouth 10, Springfield 8at Dartmouth

Every game is listed as played on the field.