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1895 Dartmouth football team

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1895 Dartmouth football
TFL champion
ConferenceTriangular Football League
Record7–5–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach
CaptainWalter McCornack
Home stadiumAlumni Oval
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Triangular Football League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 2 0 0 7 5 1
Amherst 1 1 0 6 5 0
Williams 0 2 0 4 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion

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

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Phillips Exeter Academy*Hanover, NHW 50–0450[5]
September 28at Harvard*L 0–43,000[6]
October 4vs. South Berwick*
W 12–61,000[7]
October 5vs. Bowdoin*
T 10–10700[8]
October 12Bates*Hanover, NHW 38–0400[9]
October 16at Yale*L 0–26[10]
October 19vs. MIT*Manchester, NHW 30–0500[11]
October 26at Army*L 0–62,000[12]
October 30at Yale*
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–321,500[13]
November 2Boston University*Hanover, NHW 12–0300[14]
November 9Amherst
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
W 20–01,000[15][16]
November 16at WilliamsW 10–51,000[17]
November 28at Brown*
L 4–106,000[18]
  • *Non-conference game

References

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  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.
  3. ^ Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1895". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.
  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 icon.