1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1939 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1939 college football season. The Indians were led by sixth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They finished with a record of 5–3–1 and outscored opponents by a total of 154 to 73.^[1][2] After amassing a 5–0–1 record to start the season and shutting out four of those opponents, Dartmouth ascended to 14th in the AP Poll, but lost their last three contests against, No. 4 Cornell, Princeton, and a Stanford team that finished 1–7–1—their only win coming against Dartmouth. Northwestern finish the year unranked in the AP poll and were ranked No. 29 in the final Litkenhous Ratings.^[3]

1939 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Earl Blaik (6th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field
Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	St. Lawrence		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 41–9	6,000	[4]
October 7	Hampden–Sydney		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 34–6
October 14	at Navy		Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	T 0–0
October 21	Lafayette		Memorial Field Hanover, MH	W 14–0		[5]
October 28	at Harvard		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–0	35,000	[6]
November 4	at Yale		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 33–0
November 11	at Princeton	No. 14	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 7–9
November 18	No. 4 Cornell	No. 20	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 6–35	16,000	[7]
December 2	vs. Stanford		Polo Grounds Nork York, NY	L 3–14	10,603	[8]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "1939 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
2. "Dartmouth Game by Game Results". September 6, 2015. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
4. United Press, "Dartmouth Darts Over St. Lawrence, 41–9," Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 1, 1939, p. 37.
5. "Dartmouth Turns Back Scrappy Lafayette Crew In Tight Game 14 to 0". Sunday Call-Chronicle. October 22, 1939. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Dartmouth Power Raps Harvard, 16-0". New York Daily News. October 29, 1939. p. C40 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Buck Clarey (November 20, 1939). "Pennsylvania Next For Big Red; Green Beaten, 35-6". The Ithaca Journal. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Jack Guenther, "Victory-Starved Stanford Upsets Dartmouth Foe, 14–3," Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 3, 1939, p. S1 (51).