Dartmouth vs. Stevens

Dartmouth and Stevens first met in 1887 and have played 4 times; Dartmouth leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Dartmouth 2–⁠1, and Dartmouth has won the last 2.

Dartmouth wins
2
Stevens wins
1
Ties
1
First meeting
1887
Longest streak
2 Dartmouth
Current streak
2 Dartmouth
Last 10 meetings
Dartmouth 2–⁠1
Most recent
1891

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1880s1–⁠1–⁠1
1890s1–⁠0
Average margin
15.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Stevens
1–⁠2–⁠1 Stevens’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Dartmouth and Stevens, 1887 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 New-York tribune's story of the 1889 game: A CHAMPIONSHIP FOR DARTMOUTH. STEVENS BEATEN AT HoBoKEN BY SCORE o

    1889 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 29, 1889

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1891 game: DARTMOUTH DEFEATS STEVENS. A LIVELY CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL MATCH THE SCORE.

    1891 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 5, 1891

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

Nov 4, 1891Dartmouth 32, Stevens 12at Stevens
Nov 28, 1889Dartmouth 18, Stevens 5at Stevens
Nov 19, 1888Stevens 30, Dartmouth 0at Stevens
Oct 22, 1887Stevens 4, Dartmouth 4at Stevens

Every game is listed as played on the field.