1943 Dartmouth Indians football team

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1943 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 16
Record6–1
Head coach
Home stadium Memorial Field
Seasons
←  1942
1944  →
1943 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College  – 4 –0 –1
Franklin & Marshall  – 7 –1 –0
Dartmouth  – 6 –1 –0
Rochester  – 6 –1 –0
No. 11 Army  – 7 –2 –1
Holy Cross  – 6 –2 –0
Tufts  – 6 –2 –0
No. 20 Penn  – 6 –2 –1
Brown  – 5 –3 –0
Villanova  – 5 –3 –0
Colgate  – 5 –3 –1
Penn State  – 5 –3 –1
Bucknell  – 6 –4 –0
Cornell  – 6 –4 –0
Harvard  – 2 –2 –1
Yale  – 4 –5 –0
Pittsburgh  – 3 –5 –0
Temple  – 2 –6 –0
CCNY  – 1 –3 –1
Princeton  – 1 –6 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 0 –4 –1
Columbia  – 0 –8 –0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College during the 1943 college football season. [1] [2]

Contents

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Dartmouth ranked 27th among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 92.9. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Holy Cross
W 3–0
October 2 Coast Guard
W 47–0
October 9at No. 6 Penn No. 14
L 6–745,000 [4]
October 30at Yale
W 20–6
November 6 Columbia Hanover, MAW 47–13
November 13at Cornell No. 18 Boston, MA W 20–0
November 20at Princeton No. 20
W 42–138,000 [5]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

Ranking movements
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References

  1. ↑ "Dartmouth Game by Game Results". September 6, 2015. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
  2. ↑ "1943 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ Litkenhous, E. E. (December 17, 1943). "Litkenhouse Selects U. S. Grid Leaders". The Salt Lake Tribune . Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 18. Retrieved April 16, 2023– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. ↑ Art Morrow (October 10, 1943). "Penn Beats Dartmouth, Halts Foe at 1-Foot Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Indians Wreck Tigers". New York Daily News. November 21, 1943. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
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