1895 Dartmouth football team

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1895 Dartmouth football
1895 Dartmouth College football team.jpg
TFL champion
Conference Triangular Football League
Record7–5–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach
Captain Walter McCornack
Home stadiumAlumni Oval
Seasons
←  1894
1896  →
1895 Triangular Football League standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –07 –5 –1
Amherst 1 –1 –06 –5 –0
Williams 0 –2 –04 –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

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Phillips Exeter Academy * Hanover, NH W 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 12 Bates *Hanover, NHW 38–0400 [9]
October 16at Yale *
L 0–26 [10]
October 19vs. MIT * Manchester, NH W 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 2 Boston University *Hanover, NHW 12–0300 [14]
November 9 Amherst
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
W 20–01,000 [15] [16]
November 16at Williams
W 10–51,000 [17]
November 28at Brown *
L 4–106,000 [18]
  • *Non-conference game

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