Three Football Games To Be Televised on ESPN Networks

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth football team will be featured in three of the seven Ivy League games that will be televised nationally on the ESPN family of networks this fall as announced by the conference office today. Two of the games have been moved to Friday evening to accommodate the television broadcasts, while the third will be the Big Green showdown at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 9 against the defending league champion, Princeton.

First up for Dartmouth will be its Ivy League opener at Penn on Oct. 4 on ESPNU with kickoff slated for 7 p.m. Last year, the Big Green took a 13-7 lead by halftime before erupting for 21 points in the third quarter to cruise to a 37-14 victory. While the Quakers hold a 48-36-2 advantage in the all-time series, Dartmouth has won four of the last five meetings since the two teams played the longest game in Ivy League history (four overtimes) back in 2013.

The ESPNU crew will come to Memorial Field in Hanover three weeks later on Oct. 25 when Columbia is in town for a 6 p.m. kickoff. The Big Green defeated the Lions in New York last year, 28-12, breaking open another close game at the half (7-6) with 21 points before Columbia crossed the goal line in the final minute. Dartmouth holds a commanding 69-19-1 record in the all-time series and has won seven of the nine meetings during the 2010 decade.

The game at Yankee Stadium against Princeton, part of the 150th anniversary celebration of college football and the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, is slated to be broadcast by one of the ESPN networks, as yet to be determined. The Tigers were the only team to defeat the Big Green last fall in a defensive struggle, 14-9, as Princeton finished the season with a perfect 10-0 mark and the Ivy League title. This will be the first game at Yankee Stadium in Dartmouth football history, though it did play a dozen times in various iterations of the old Polo Grounds in New York City.

Dartmouth played in a game on ESPNU last year in a 41-18 victory at Yale, the first appearance for the Big Green on an ESPN network in 29 years. That game in 1990 came at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, three years before ESPN launched its second channel, ESPN2.

All told, the Big Green football team has been featured on an ESPN telecast six times previously, posting a 3-3 record in those contests. The first was a tape-delayed broadcast less than three months after the network launched in 1979, a 24-10 victory over Brown.

Dartmouth will open the 2019 season at Jacksonville on Sept. 21 with kickoff tentatively slated for 1 p.m.

DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL ON ESPN NETWORKS
Date	Opponent	Location	Network	Result/Time
Nov. 10, 1979	Brown	Hanover, N.H.	ESPN	W, 24-10
Oct. 15, 1988	Harvard	Hanover, N.H.	ESPN	W, 38-7
Sept. 16, 1989	Princeton	Hanover, N.H.	ESPN	L, 14-20
Oct. 14, 1989	Yale	Hanover, N.H.	ESPN	L, 19-24
Sept. 15, 1990	Penn	Hanover, N.H.	ESPN	L, 6-16
Oct. 12, 2018	Yale	New Haven, Conn.	ESPNU	W, 41-18
Oct. 4, 2019	Penn	Philadelphia, Pa.	ESPNU	7 p.m.
Oct. 25, 2019	Columbia	Hanover, N.H.	ESPNU	6 p.m.
Nov. 9, 2019	Princeton	Yankee Stadium	TBA	TBA

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