1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

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1939 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
1939 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
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
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. Indians finish the year unranked.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentRankSiteResult
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
October 28at HarvardW 16–0
November 4at YaleW 33–0
November 11at PrincetonNo. 14L 7–9
November 18No. 4 CornellNo. 20
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
L 6–35
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.
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