Dartmouth vs. Tufts
Dartmouth and Tufts first met in 1887 and have played 11 times; Dartmouth leads the series 10–1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Dartmouth 9–1. Share
- Dartmouth wins
- 10
- Tufts wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1887
- Longest streak
- 9 Dartmouth
- Current streak
- 1 Dartmouth
- Last 10 meetings
- Dartmouth 9–1
- Most recent
- 1920
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1890s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1910s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 24.9 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Dartmouth
- 8–0 Dartmouth’s record at home
- At Tufts
- 1–2 Tufts’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 7
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Dartmouth’s biggest win1914: Dartmouth 68, Tufts 0by 68 points
- Tufts’s biggest win1917: Tufts 27, Dartmouth 0by 27 points
- Upset1917: Tufts 27, Dartmouth 0Tufts had a 16% 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

1900 · Akron daily Democrat, Akron, Ohio, Oct 22, 1900

1914 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 8, 1914

1915 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Oct 10, 1915

1917 · New-York tribune, New York, Nov 18, 1917

1920 · The New York herald, New York, N.Y., Oct 31, 1920
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 30, 1920 | Dartmouth 34, Tufts 7 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Nov 17, 1917 | Tufts 27, Dartmouth 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Oct 9, 1915 | Dartmouth 20, Tufts 7 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Nov 7, 1914 | Dartmouth 68, Tufts 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 11, 1902 | Dartmouth 29, Tufts 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 12, 1901 | Dartmouth 22, Tufts 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 20, 1900 | Dartmouth 12, Tufts 0 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 20, 1894 | Dartmouth 12, Tufts 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 11, 1893 | Dartmouth 14, Tufts 4 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Nov 5, 1892 | Dartmouth 12, Tufts 10 | at Dartmouth | ||
| Oct 15, 1887 | Dartmouth 52, Tufts 0 | at Tufts |
Every game is listed as played on the field.