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1917 Dartmouth football team

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1917 Dartmouth football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainHubert McDonough
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1

The 1917 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its first season under head coach Clarence Spears, the team compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 83 to 68. Hubert McDonough was the team captain.[1][2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 6Springfield YMCAHanover, NHW 14–0
October 13MiddleburyHanover, NHW 32–6
October 20West VirginiaHanover, NHW 6–2
October 27New HampshireHanover, NH (rivalry)W 21–6
November 3Penn StateHanover, NHW 10–7
November 10vs. PennL 0–7
November 17vs. TuftsManchester, NHL 0–27[3]
November 24vs. Brown
  • Braves Field
  • Boston, MA
L 0–13[4]

References

  1. ^ "1917 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  3. ^ "Tufts Pins Defeat On Dartmouth, 27-0". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1917. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Brown Defeats Dartmouth After Eleven Year Lay-Off". Elmira Star-Gazette. November 26, 1917. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.