1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1939 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1939 college football season. The Indians were led by sixth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They finished with a record of 5–3–1 and outscored opponents by a total of 154 to 73.[1][2] After amassing a 5–0–1 record to start the season and shutting out four of those opponents, Dartmouth ascended to 14th in the AP Poll, but lost their last three contests against, No. 4 Cornell, Princeton, and a Stanford team that finished 1–7–1—their only win coming against Dartmouth. Northwester finish the year unranked in the AP poll and were ranked No. 29 in the final Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

1939 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Field
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell    8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne    8 0 1
Swarthmore    6 0 1
Scranton    7 0 2
Princeton    7 1 0
La Salle    6 1 1
Penn State    5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College    9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham    6 2 0
Villanova    6 2 0
Boston University    5 3 0
Brown    5 3 1
Dartmouth    5 3 1
Hofstra    4 3 0
NYU    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
Manhattan    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Syracuse    3 3 2
Vermont    3 3 2
Tufts    3 4 1
Yale    3 4 1
Army    3 4 2
Bucknell    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    2 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 2
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 7 0
CCNY    1 7 0
Buffalo    0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30St. LawrenceW 41–9
October 7Hampden–Sydney
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 34–6
October 14at NavyT 0–0
October 21Lafayette
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, MH
W 14–0[4]
October 28at HarvardW 16–035,000[5]
November 4at YaleW 33–0
November 11at PrincetonNo. 14L 7–9
November 18No. 4 CornellNo. 20
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
L 6–3516,000[6]
December 2vs. StanfordL 3–14
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1939 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  2. "Dartmouth Game by Game Results". September 6, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
  3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Dartmouth Turns Back Scrappy Lafayette Crew In Tight Game 14 to 0". Sunday Call-Chronicle. October 22, 1939. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Dartmouth Power Raps Harvard, 16-0". New York Daily News. October 29, 1939. p. C40 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Buck Clarey (November 20, 1939). "Pennsylvania Next For Big Red; Green Beaten, 35-6". The Ithaca Journal. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
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