1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

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1939 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

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]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30St. Lawrence
W 41–96,000[4]
October 7Hampden–Sydney
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 34–6
October 14at Navy
T 0–0
October 21Lafayette
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, MH
W 14–0[5]
October 28at Harvard
W 16–035,000[6]
November 4at Yale
W 33–0
November 11at PrincetonNo. 14
L 7–9
November 18No. 4 CornellNo. 20
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
L 6–3516,000[7]
December 2vs. Stanford
L 3–1410,603[8]
  • 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. ^ United Press, "Dartmouth Darts Over St. Lawrence, 41–9," Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 1, 1939, p. 37.
  5. ^ "Dartmouth Turns Back Scrappy Lafayette Crew In Tight Game 14 to 0". Sunday Call-Chronicle. October 22, 1939. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Dartmouth Power Raps Harvard, 16-0". New York Daily News. October 29, 1939. p. C40 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Buck Clarey (November 20, 1939). "Pennsylvania Next For Big Red; Green Beaten, 35-6". The Ithaca Journal. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Jack Guenther, "Victory-Starved Stanford Upsets Dartmouth Foe, 14–3," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 3, 1939, p. S1 (51).


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