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Dartmouth Football Timeline
1867
Various institutions begin to adopt a special college color. The Dartmouth reports, “ ... Dartmouth claims green.” At the time, “Whole Division,” is Dartmouth’s distinctive predecessor to football, pitting seniors and sophomores against juniors and freshmen in the free pursuit of a ball by every student not physically incapacitated.
1876
John Ingham ’77, Chalmers Stevens ’77 and Lewis Parkhurst ’78 erect rugby-style goal posts on the campus Green but Dartmouth isn’t prepared to support the fledgling sport of football. The goal posts are torn down prior to commencement in 1877. In 1910, Mr. Parkhurst, now a trustee, donates the funds for Parkhurst Hall (today it is Dartmouth’s principal administration building).
1880
The arrival of Clarence (Cap) Howland ’84, familiar with the game, inspires creation of a football squad that practices but is unable to schedule a game. Howland is regarded as the “father of Dartmouth football.”
1881
On November 16, Dartmouth plays its first game, defeating Amherst, 1-0 (touchdowns were valued at one point). Charles Oakes ’83 scores the touchdown. His grandson, Abner Oakes ’56, will later be a captain and coach of the Dartmouth men’s hockey team.
1882
Harvard visits Hanover and beats Dartmouth, 53-0. The Dartmouth comments, “...if there is any other game that Dartmouth can play better than football, it would be well to encourage it.”
1884
Yale, considered the best team in the country, is invited to Hanover and wins, 113-0. The “Yale Jinx” is born.
1886
Bill Odlin ’90 is captain and coach from 1886-89. His innovations include introduction of the wedge style of rushing offense and calling of signals by numbers. Odlin’s leadership firmly establishes the fledgling sport at Dartmouth.
1890
Charles Gill, an All-America tackle at Yale, is Dartmouth’s first paid coach, albeit for only three weeks. He returned to New Haven to coach the Yale line. Team captains continue in the dual role of coach.
1893
Wallace Moyle, a substitute end for Yale, is hired as Dartmouth’s first “all-season” coach. Losses to Harvard (16-0) and Yale (28-0) are measures of the Green’s improved play.
1894
In its first quest for national prominence, Dartmouth travels to Chicago. Playing the Chicago A.C. on Thanksgiving Day, Dartmouth loses, 4-0.
1895
Dr. William Wurtenberg, a four-year player on Yale teams that were 46-1-1 from 1886-89, is Dartmouth’s new coach. The Green plays a 13-game schedule (7-5-1), the most games in any season.
1901
Walter McCornack ’97 becomes Dartmouth’s coach. The Green (9-1) shuts out six teams and loses only at Harvard, 27-12, but scores for the first time in 17 games with the Crimson.
1903
Harvard dedicates the nation’s first concrete stadium in Cambridge. Dartmouth beats the Crimson for the first time, 11-0, highlight of a 9-1 season.
1904
A scoreless tie at Harvard is the only blemish on Dartmouth’s first unbeaten season (7-0-1) of the century. From 1903-05, Dartmouth builds a 23-2-3 record.
1907
A scoreless tie with Vermont keeps Dartmouth from a perfect season (8-0-1).
1909
A railroad wreck forces Dartmouth to complete its trip from New York to Princeton by trolley. The Green arrives two hours after the scheduled starting time and plays the once-beaten Tigers to a 6-6 tie.
1911
Frank Cavanaugh ’99, already a successful coach at Holy Cross, returns to Dartmouth. Over six seasons, he guides the Green to a 42-9-3 record.
1913
The Eastern championship and an undefeated season are in Dartmouth’s grasp after a 34-21 win at Penn but Glenn (Pop) Warner’s Carlisle Indians uses passing and trick plays to thwart the Green, 35-10, at the Polo Grounds in New York.
1914
Princeton plays its first game in Palmer Stadium and beats Dartmouth, 16-12, the Green’s only loss of the season. Dartmouth caps an 8-1 season by beating Syracuse, 40-0, at Fenway Park in Boston.
1917
All-America guard Clarence (Fat) Spears ’17 replaces Frank Cavanaugh, bound for service in World War I, as coach.
1919
Penn State visits Alumni Oval (located where Dartmouth now plays baseball) as part of Dartmouth’s 150th anniversary celebration. Dartmouth wins, 19-13. Three weeks later, the Green takes a dramatic 20-19 decision over Penn at the Polo Grounds in New York but a 7-6 loss at Brown spoils an unbeaten season.
1920
Led by All-America halfback Jim Robertson, Dartmouth travels across the continent to dedicate the University of Washington’s new stadium with a 27-7 win.
1921
A leg injury forces Jim Robertson to move from halfback to the line for his last game. He opens gaping holes as Dartmouth beats Georgia in Atlanta, 7-0.
1923
Jesse Hawley ’09 succeeds Jack Cannell ’19 as Dartmouth’s coach. The Green begins a remarkable era of success with an 8-1 record. The loss comes to Cornell, 32-9, before a crowd of 14,000 in the dedication game of Dartmouth’s Memorial Field.
1924
A 14-14 tie at Yale keeps Dartmouth from a perfect season (7-0-1).
1925
Prevailing strategy said that a team scored upon can choose to kick off. Cornell keeps kicking off. Swede Oberlander throws six touchdown passes. Dartmouth wins, 62-13. A week later, Dartmouth travels west and beats Chicago, 33-7, to claim the national championship with a perfect 8-0-0 record. The Green scores 340 points, allows only 29, and has five shutouts.
1926
Dartmouth beats Virginia Tech, 20-0, at Hanover for its 22nd straight game without a loss. A week later, Yale prevails, 14-7. The “Yale Jinx” continues.
1927
Dartmouth finishes 7-1. Halfback Myles Lane scores 18 touchdowns and a record 125 points in all. Lane completes his three-year career as the Green’s all-time scoring leader with 307 points (48 TDs, 19 extra points). He then captains the 1927-28 hockey team.
1929
Prior to the Yale game, superstitious All-America halfback Al Marsters misplaces the shoulder pads he’s used through high school and at Dartmouth. Wearing borrowed pads, Marsters is leading interference when he’s kicked, fracturing his spine. Yale wins, 16-12. Marsters nevers plays another game.
1931
In 14 previous meetings with Yale, Dartmouth is 0-12-2 and trails the Elis, 33-10, in the second half. Bill McCall scores on kickoff and interceptions returns. A blocked kick produces another score. Dartmouth trails, 33-30, as McCall holds for Bill Morton’s 34-yard field goal as dusk settles. Dartmouth “beats” Yale, 33-33.
1934
After successive .500 seasons, Dartmouth hires Earl Blaik as coach. President Ernest M. Hopkins advises, “Earl, always remember that football is incidental to the purpose for which the player is in college. But, let’s have a winner.” Dartmouth posts a 6-3 record.
1935
Dartmouth takes a 5-0 record to Yale Bowl. Seven times the Green is inside Yale’s 10 but leads only 7-6. Then Carl (Mutt) Ray intercepts a pass and makes it 14-6. Dartmouth fans tear down the goal posts with two minutes to play. The “Yale Jinx” is ended. After seven games, Dartmouth is still undefeated. So is Princeton. In a driving snowstorm, not even a drunken fan who tries to join Dartmouth’s goal line defense is enough. Princeton wins the famous “Snow Game,” 26-6.
1936
Bill Osmanski’s 76-yard interception return gives Holy Cross a 7-0 win over Dartmouth. The Green won’t lose another game until Game Eight in 1938 when Cornell ends another 22-game unbeaten streak, 14-7, at Ithaca.
1937
Dartmouth finishes 7-0-2 but declines an invitation to play California in the Rose Bowl. Says President Hopkins, “When our season is over, it’s over.”
1940
Cornell is undefeated and atop the national rankings. Dartmouth is 3-4 but leads 3-0 in the last minute when Referee Red Friesell loses track of downs and awards Cornell an erroneous extra play. The Big Red scores. The “Fifth Down” error is confirmed on film. The next day Cornell concedes its 7-3 victory, the only time a college game’s result has been decided off the field. After the season, Blaik departs to coach at Army.
1943
In the midst of World War II, Dartmouth beats everyone but Penn, 7-6, to finish an abbreviated 6-1 season, Dartmouth’s 43rd straight record of .500 or better.
1945
As World War II ends, Dartmouth’s schedule includes only Division I opponents.
1948-49
Back-to-back 6-2 records, all against major opponents and built around Joe Sullivan, Jon Jenkins, Dale Armstrong and Herb Carey, crown Tuss McLaughry’s 12-year tenure as Dartmouth’s coach.
1955
Bob Blackman’s extraordinary 16-year career at Dartmouth starts badly. In his first game as Dartmouth’s coach, the Green leads Colgate, 20-0, then yields 21 unanswered points in the final period.
1956
Formal Ivy League play begins.
1957
A tie at Yale and a last-week loss at Princeton leaves Dartmouth a half-game behind the Tigers in the Ivy League title race and 7-1-1 overall.
1958
A 21-12 win at Princeton clinches Dartmouth’s first outright Ivy League title.
1959
Dartmouth’s scoreless tie with Brown at Memorial Field gives Penn the Ivy title by a half-game over the Green.
1960
A 20-0 win at Cornell is the 400th victory in Dartmouth football history.
1962
Led by quarterback Bill King and center-linebacker Don McKinnon, Dartmouth shuts out five foes, beats Princeton in the finale, 38-27, and gains its first undefeated-untied season (9-0-0) since 1925.
1963
After a 17-13 loss at Harvard ends Dartmouth’s 15-game winning streak, the Green rebounds. A comeback 22-21 win at Princeton leaves Dartmouth and the Tigers knotted for the Ivy crown.
1964
Princeton visits Memorial Field for the first time and continues toward an undefeated season with a 37-7 win.
1965
Dartmouth returns the favor: Princeton has won 17 straight games since losing to Dartmouth in 1963. The Green is 8-0. At Palmer Stadium, Mickey Beard’s 79-yard pass to Bill Calhoun clinches Dartmouth’s win, 28-14. It’s the Green’s third undefeated season in four years. Dartmouth wins the Lambert Trophy as the East’s best team.
1966
Undefeated in 11 straight games, Dartmouth misses a rain-drenched two-point conversion and bows at Holy Cross, 7-6. The Green still gains a three-way tie, with Harvard and Princeton (all 6-1), for its fourth Ivy title in five years.
1967
Pete Donovan’s second-chance field goal beats Harvard, 23-21. Four weeks later his fourth period kick beats Princeton, 17-14.
1968
The permanent East Grandstand is completed, increasing Memorial Field’s seating capacity to 20,416.
1969
Hank Bjorklund, son of a Dartmouth alumnus, runs all over the Green. Princeton wins, 35-7, spoiling an undefeated season for Dartmouth. The Green shares the Ivy title with Yale and the Tigers.
1970
Is this Dartmouth’s best season ever, rivaling the 1925 national champions? Led by rover back Murry Bowden, the Green gathers six shutouts. Quarterback Jim Chasey and halfback John Short guide an offense that outscores the opposition, 311-42. Dartmouth rolls to a 9-0 record, the Ivy title, a second Lambert Trophy, and ranks 14th in the nation. Chasey and Cornell tailback Ed Marinaro share the first Bushnell Trophy as the Ivy’s outstanding players. Bob Blackman moves to the Big Ten (Illinois) after 16 seasons, 104 wins, and seven outright or shared Ivy titles.
1971
Ted Perry’s field goals decide successive wins over Brown, Harvard and Yale. Then, Columbia turns the tables: A last-minute field goal snaps Dartmouth’s 15-game win streak, 31-29. A week after that, quarterback Steve Stetson outshines Marinaro, Cornell’s Heisman Trophy runnerup. Dartmouth wins, 24-14, before the then-largest crowd ever at Memorial Field (20,819). Dartmouth and Cornell share the Ivy title.
1972
A 21-21 tie at Harvard and a 31-22 win at Cornell are keys as Dartmouth (5-1-1) edges Yale (5-2) for its fourth straight Ivy crown. Dartmouth becomes a coeducational college.
1973
After losing its first three games, Dartmouth wins its last six, including a defense-inspired 24-18 duel at Harvard, for its fifth straight Ivy title.
1974
The largest crowd in Memorial Field history (21,530) sees Harvard hold off the Green, 17-15.
1975
A 22-17 victory at Columbia makes Dartmouth the 11th team in college football history to win 500 games.
1977
A field goal at the Bowl by Nick Lowery, destined for an 18-year career in the NFL, hands Yale its only Ivy loss, 3-0. Jake Crouthamel departs with a 41-20-2 record after seven seasons as Bob Blackman’s successor.
1978
Joe Yukica succeeds Jake Crouthamel. Quarterback Buddy Teevens wins the Bushnell Trophy and Dartmouth wins its fifth Ivy title of the decade.
1980
Dartmouth and the Ivy League adopt a 10-game schedule.
1981
Shaun Teevens, Buddy’s brother, is the leading receiver as Dartmouth has a piece of its 12th Ivy League title, this time with Yale.
1982
Dartmouth has its third Ivy title in five seasons under Joe Yukica, sharing the crown with Penn and Harvard.
1986
After five successful seasons followed by four of frustration (11 wins), Joe Yukica steps down. His successor: Buddy Teevens.
1990
Tailback Shon Page rushes for a Dartmouth record 1,087 yards and wins the Bushnell Trophy as the Green shares the Ivy title with Cornell.
1991
Shon Page’s rushing record lasts one year. Tailback Al Rosier powers for 1,432 yards and keeps the Bushnell Trophy in Hanover. Dartmouth, 6-0-1, is the outright Ivy champ. After the season (and successive Ivy titles), Buddy Teevens leaves to coach Tulane. His assistant, John Lyons, becomes Dartmouth’s football coach.
1992
The Jay Fiedler era explodes: The junior quarterback passes for 2,748 yards and 25 touchdowns, both Dartmouth records, and wins the Bushnell Trophy. The Green wins its third straight Ivy title.
1993
Jay Fiedler’s last game is his best. Dartmouth trails Princeton, 22-8 with 9:37 to play. He passes for one TD, then runs for another. A conversion pass ties the game, 22-22. In swirling snow, his 38-yard pass to John Hyland with 1:12 left gives Dartmouth a 28-22 win. He finishes with 6,684 career yards passing, 58 touchdown passes, and 7,249 yards of total offense, all Green records.
1995
A 23-7 win at Harvard is Dartmouth’s 600th all-time victory. But, when Princeton kicks a field goal with four seconds left to gain a 10-10 tie at Hanover, the final game deadlock gives the Tigers (5-1-1) the Ivy crown and pushes Dartmouth (4-2-1) from a possible four-way title tie to fourth place. A year later, the overtime rule is in place.
1996
Having played the first game at Princeton’s Palmer Stadium in 1914, the Green also plays the last, beating Princeton, 24-0, to complete Dartmouth’s first 10-0-0 season, its fifth undefeated-untied campaign, and 17th Ivy League title.
1997
A Dartmouth unbeaten streak — beginning early in the 1995 season and reaching 22 games — ends against Lehigh. Dartmouth finishes 8-2 with a three-year run with a 25-4-1 record, matching the 1969-71 teams for wins (25-2-0).
2003
Frustration at Harvard in 2001 (a 31-21 loss after the Green builds a 21-0 halftime lead) and 2002 (a 31-26 setback) ends as quarterback Charlie Rittgers passes for 344 yards and two touchdowns and runs for another score. Dartmouth knocks the Crimson from the undefeated ranks, 30-16, a major step en route to five wins in its last six games.
2004
After 13 seasons that included an undefeated team in 1996 but an overall record of 60-68-1, John Lyons steps down as Dartmouth’s football coach.
2005
Buddy Teevens, the Ivy League’s player-of-the-year in 1978 and Dartmouth’s head coach from 1987-91, returns to the helm of Big Green football. Dartmouth wins its opening game against Colgate but then struggles through an injury-plagued campaign.
2006-09
FieldTurf replaces grass on Memorial Field for the 2006 season. The East Stands are reduced in size to accommodate the Floren Varsity House (opened during the 2007 season) that includes new offices, dressing and conditioning facilities for Dartmouth’s football team.
2010
The Big Green end 13 years of frustration by posting a winning season with a 6-4 overall record, and junior Nick Schwieger leads the Ivy League in rushing for a second straight year, earning a share of the Bushnell Cup. Return man Shawn Abuhoff earns All-America honors after leading the country with three touchdowns on punt returns.
2011
Thanks to winning four of their final five games, the Big Green vault into a four-way tie for second place with a 4-3 record, its best league mark and finish in the standings in eight years. Nick Schwieger breaks the school career rushing record with his second straight 1,000-yard campaign, earning All-America third-team honors from the AP.
2012
Dalyn Williams becomes the seventh player in Big Green history — but first in 10 years — to be chosen as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, more than any other school in the conference.
2013
Dartmouth led the Ivy League in rushing offense and scoring defense in posting its best league record in 16 years at 5-2, just one game behind co-champions Harvard and Princeton. The two losses come in a four-overtime game at Penn and at Harvard on a last-minute field goal, but the Big Green denied Princeton an outright title by defeating the 19th-ranked Tigers in the season finale, 28-24.
2014
With 10 players earning a spot on the All-Ivy First Team (just the sixth team in conference history in double figures), Dartmouth finished the season 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the league standings to place second, its best finish since putting up identical records in 1997.
2015
For the first time in 19 years, Dartmouth is the Ivy League champion, sharing the title with Penn and Harvard with identical 6-1 records. Only a one-point, last-minute loss at 15th-ranked Harvard kept the Big Green from a perfect 10-0 season. In the final polls, Dartmouth was ranked 23rd.
2016
Dartmouth opens the season by beating 22nd-ranked New Hampshire, 22-21, ending a 40-year drought against the Big Green’s in-state rival.
2017
Dartmouth rallies from being down 21-0 to defeat eventual league champion Yale on homecoming, 28-27, the largest deficit overcome in a victory in program history. Only a pair of losses by a combined eight points deny the Big Green at least a share of the conference crown.
2018
The Big Green post perhaps their best season without a league title to show for it, finishing the season ranked 15th by the AFCA and 18th by STATS with a 9-1 record. In a clash of undefeated teams at Princeton, Dartmouth comes up short in a defensive struggle, 14-9, for its only defeat of the year. CB Isiah Swann leads the nation in interceptions and is a consensus first-team All-American to earn the Bushnell Cup, while OL Matt Kaskey and DL Rocco Di Leo also garner All-America honors.
2019
Dartmouth wins its first eight games, the last of which is a 27-10 victory over undefeated Princeton at Yankee Stadium to avenge the loss from the previous year en route to a 9-1 season and a share of its league-record 19th conference crown. CB Isaiah Swann earns AP All-America First Team honors for the second straight year, and LB Jack Traynor takes home the Bushnell Cup.
2021
It’s back-to-back titles for the Big Green for the first time since 1990-92 as Dartmouth posts its third straight 6-1 campaign and 9-1 mark overall. Derek Kyler and Nick Howard become the first teammates to be named All-Ivy at quarterback in the same season while linebacker Jalen Mackie and offensive lineman Jake Guidone earn All-America third-team honors. And with victories against the three non-conference opponents, the Big Green run their win streak outside of conference to a program-record 19 games.
2022
The Big Green open the season with a 35-13 win to make it an even 20 straight wins against non-conference foes before an overtime road loss ends the historical streak. A 27-24 road win at Columbia avenges the only loss from the previous season.
