1937 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1937 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1937 college football season. The Indians were led by fourth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Indians finished undefeated with a record of 7–0–2, finishing No. 7 in the final AP Poll, their highest ever finish.^[1][2] Dartmouth was invited to play in the 1938 Rose Bowl, but declined the invitation.^[3]

1937 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 7
Record	7–0–2
Head coach	Earl Blaik (4th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field
Seasons ← 1936 1938 →

1937 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 1 Pittsburgh			–					9	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Villanova			–					8	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Fordham			–					7	–	0	–	1
No. 7 Dartmouth			–					7	–	0	–	2
No. T–14 Holy Cross			–					8	–	0	–	2
St. Thomas (PA)			–					6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Yale			–					6	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					6	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	2	–	1
CCNY			–					5	–	2	–	0
No. 12 Manhattan			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Duquesne			–					6	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	4
Boston College			–					4	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	2
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Colgate			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	5	–	2
Hofstra			–					2	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	5	–	1
Penn			–					2	–	5	–	1
Providence			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					2	–	6	–	0
La Salle			–					2	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					1	–	7	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Bates		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 39–0
October 2	Amherst		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 31–7
October 9	Springfield		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 42–0
October 16	at Brown		Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 41–0
October 23	at Harvard	No. 18	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 20–2	50,000	[4]
October 30	at No. 5 Yale	No. 9	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 9–9
November 6	at Princeton	No. 9	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 33–9
November 13	Cornell	No. 5	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	T 6–6
November 20	at Columbia	No. 9	Baker Field New York, NY	W 27–0
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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