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. Northwestern 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 September 6, 2015. 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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