1928 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1928 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach Jesse Hawley, the Indians compiled a 5–4 record. Richard Black was the team captain.^[1]

Al Marsters was the team's leading scorer, with 67 points, from 11 touchdowns and one kicked extra point.^[2]

Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Norwich	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 39–6		^[1]
October 6	Hobart	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 44–0		^[1]
October 13	Allegheny	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 37–12		^[1]
October 20	Columbia	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 21–7		^[3]
October 27	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 7–19	53,000	^[4]
November 3	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 0–18	45,000	^[5]
November 10	Brown	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 0–14		^[1]
November 17	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 28–0		^[1]
November 24	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L 6–27	45,000	^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Season-by-Season Results: 1881-1939". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^ "Annual Scoring Leaders (Since 1925)". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^ Vidmer, Richards (October 21, 1928). "Dartmouth Defeats Columbia by 21-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ Vidmer, Richards (October 28, 1928). "Harvard Repulses Dartmouth by 19-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ Richardson, William D. (November 4, 1928). "Dartmouth Bows to Yale by 18 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
^ "Dartmouth Beaten by Northwestern". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 25, 1928. p. S2.

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National championship seasons in bold

1928 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Boston College		–		9	–	0	–	0
Villanova		–		7	–	0	–	1
Brown		–		8	–	1	–	0
Penn		–		8	–	1	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		7	–	1	–	0
Army		–		8	–	2	–	0
Drexel		–		8	–	2	–	0
NYU		–		8	–	2	–	0
Temple		–		7	–	1	–	2
Lafayette		–		6	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		5	–	1	–	2
CCNY		–		4	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
Tufts		–		5	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		5	–	2	–	3
Columbia		–		5	–	3	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	3	–	2
Cornell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse		–		4	–	4	–	1
Yale		–		4	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		4	–	5	–	0
Penn State		–		3	–	5	–	1
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		2	–	5	–	2
Vermont		–		1	–	7	–	2