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The 1895 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College as a member of the Triangular Football League during the 1895 college football season. Head coach William Wurtenburg scheduled a 13-game season for 1895, a still-standing record at Dartmouth for most games played in a single year.[1] The team compiled an overall record of 7–5–1 with a mark of 2–0 in TFL play, winning the league title. The season began with a 50–0 shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, which was followed by a close game with Harvard. The match was hard-fought; Harvard won by a slim 4–0 margin, the closest that a Dartmouth team had gotten to beating Harvard.[2] The squad then played three smaller colleges, winning two of the games and tying the other. The team then went back-and-forth between losing and winning, falling twice to Yale and once to West Point, but defeating MIT and Boston University. Conference opponents Williams and Amherst were defeated by a combined score of 30–5, and the team was awarded its third straight Triangular Football League championship. The season ended on a negative note, however, with a close 10–4 loss to Brown.[3][4]

Schedule[edit]

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source
September 25 Phillips Exeter Academy* Hanover, NH W 50–0 450 [5]
September 28 at Harvard* L 0–4 3,000 [6]
October 4 vs. South Berwick* W 12–6 1,000 [7]
October 5 vs. Bowdoin* T 10–10 700 [8]
October 12 Bates* Hanover, NH W 38–0 400 [9]
October 16 at Yale* L 0–26 [10]
October 19 vs. MIT* Manchester, NH W 30–0 500 [11]
October 26 at Army* L 0–6 2,000 [12]
October 30 at Yale* L 0–32 1,500 [13]
November 2 Boston University* Hanover, NH W 12–0 300 [14]
November 9 Amherst W 20–0 1,000 [15][16]
November 16 at Williams W 10–5 1,000 [17]
November 28 at Brown* L 4–10 6,000 [18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Staff (July 21, 2010). “Dartmouth Football Timeline”. Dartmouth Big Green Football. Dartmouth College. 1895. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  2. ^ Staff writer (November 13, 1908). “At The Adams House: Harvard-Dartmouth Series”. The Dartmouth. XXX (15): 184–185. OCLC 6311027.
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  4. ^ Staff (2013). “Triangular Football League–Conference Championships”. Conference Championships Index. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
  5. ^ “Exeter Is Easy”. The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 26, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. ^ “Harvard’s Close Call”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 29, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. ^ “Dartmouth’s Erratic Play”. The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 5, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. ^ “Ran Against Bowdoin Beef”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  9. ^ “Bates Badly Beaten By Dartmouth”. Bangor Daily Whig and Courier. Bangor, Maine. October 13, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. ^ “Tale Defeats Dartmouth 26 to 0”. Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 17, 1895. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  11. ^ “Dartmouth 30, M. I. T 0”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 20, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  12. ^ “West Point Cadets Win”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 31, 1895. p. 9. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. ^ “Yale 32, Dartmouth 0”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 27, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. ^ “Gave Dartmouth A Rub”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 3, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  15. ^ “Dartmouth 20, Amherst 0”. The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 10, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  16. ^ “Dartmouth, 20; Amherst, 0”. The New York Times. New York, New York. November 10, 1895. p. 6. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  17. ^ “Dartmouth, 10; Williams, 5”. The New York Times. New York, New York. November 17, 1895. p. 6. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  18. ^ “Brown Won, 10–4”. The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 29, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.