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Dartmouth Football Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of its 1925 National Championship
11/14/2025 5:01:00 PM | Football
HANOVER, N.H. — In 1925, Dartmouth football delivered one of the greatest seasons in program history. Under head coach Jesse Hawley, the Big Green went a perfect 8–0, shutting out five opponents and outscoring their competition 340 to 29. The team was recognized as national champions and later awarded the Rissman Trophy, with additional championship recognition coming from Parke H. Davis in 1934.
Celebrate this legendary team by picking up your 1925 commemorative T-shirt, available now at the Dartmouth Authentic Team Store locations at Saturday's game vs. Cornell and online by clicking here.
The 1925 team was featured by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in a story titled Gridiron Glory:
No one living remembers that championship season. Its players have all died, as have the tens of thousands of fans in raccoon coats and bowler hats. That season lives on only in yellowed newspaper clips and a remarkable scrapbook in the College archives.
Dartmouth was undefeated in 1925. The Big Green was in the middle of a three-year, 21-0-1 unbeaten streak that began in 1923 with a 16-14 win against Brown and continued until a 14-7 loss at Yale in 1926.
Never again would Dartmouth approach national championship status. The team was invited to the 1937 Rose Bowl game but declined to play, citing the distraction a postseason game would present to student-athletes' academic performance. The last time the team was nationally ranked was 55 years ago, when it played Yale before a crowd of 60,820 in 1970.
But in 1925—when Vermonter Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, and Sweet Georgia Brown was the top song—the presence of Dartmouth atop the national football rankings didn't seem at all incongruous. Hardly anyone cared about the embryonic NFL, then only 6 years old.
To read the full story, please click here.
Celebrate this legendary team by picking up your 1925 commemorative T-shirt, available now at the Dartmouth Authentic Team Store locations at Saturday's game vs. Cornell and online by clicking here.
The 1925 team was featured by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in a story titled Gridiron Glory:
No one living remembers that championship season. Its players have all died, as have the tens of thousands of fans in raccoon coats and bowler hats. That season lives on only in yellowed newspaper clips and a remarkable scrapbook in the College archives.
Dartmouth was undefeated in 1925. The Big Green was in the middle of a three-year, 21-0-1 unbeaten streak that began in 1923 with a 16-14 win against Brown and continued until a 14-7 loss at Yale in 1926.
Never again would Dartmouth approach national championship status. The team was invited to the 1937 Rose Bowl game but declined to play, citing the distraction a postseason game would present to student-athletes' academic performance. The last time the team was nationally ranked was 55 years ago, when it played Yale before a crowd of 60,820 in 1970.
But in 1925—when Vermonter Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, and Sweet Georgia Brown was the top song—the presence of Dartmouth atop the national football rankings didn't seem at all incongruous. Hardly anyone cared about the embryonic NFL, then only 6 years old.
To read the full story, please click here.
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