1981 Dartmouth Big Green football team

1981 Dartmouth Big Green football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	6–4 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Joe Yukica (4th season)
Captains	Kent Cooper George Thompson
Home stadium	Memorial Field
Seasons ←  1980 1982  →

1981 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale +	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth +	6	–	1	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Princeton	5	–	1	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
Harvard	4	–	2	–	1			5	–	4	–	1
Brown	2	–	5	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Cornell	2	–	5	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Columbia	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
Penn	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

The 1981 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. Dartmouth tied for third place in the Ivy League.

In their fourth season under head coach Joe Yukica, the Big Green compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents 208 to 137. Kent Cooper and George Thompson were the team captains. ^[1]

The Big Green's 6–1 conference record tied Yale for the Ivy League championship. Dartmouth outscored Ivy opponents 193 to 87. ^[2] Dartmouth's sole league loss was to its co-champion, Yale.

This was the Big Green's last season in the NCAA's top level of football competition. Shortly after the season ended, the NCAA reassigned all of the Ivy League teams to the second-tier Division I-AA, ^[3] which would later be renamed the Football Championship Subdivision.

Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	Princeton	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 32–13	6,981	[4]
September 26	at UMass *	Alumni Stadium Hadley, MA	L 8–10	11,855	[5]
October 3	Holy Cross *	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 0–28	7,203	[6]
October 10	William & Mary *	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 7–12	10,061	[7]
October 17	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 24–10	25,000	[8]
October 24	Cornell	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 42–7	12,054	[9]
October 31	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 3–24	32,500	[10]
November 7	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY	W 21–7	3,860	[11]
November 14	Brown	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 38–13	9,500	[12]
November 21	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 33–13	9,757	[13]
*Non-conference game

References

1. "Season-by-Season Results: 1940-99". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College . Retrieved July 3, 2020.
2. "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 29. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
3. Roberts, Ernie (December 4, 1981). "Big Guys on Block Bully Ivy, HC Football". The Boston Globe . Boston, Mass.
4. Robbins, Paul (September 20, 1981). "Dartmouth Opens by Routing Princeton, 32-13". The Sunday Rutland Herald . Rutland, Vt. sect. 2, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Eisenberg, Harry (September 27, 1981). "UMass Dumps Dartmouth Again". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 78 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Roberts, Ernie (October 4, 1981). "HC Cuffs Dartmouth, 28-0". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 85 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Ballou, Art (October 11, 1981). "William and Mary Downs Dartmouth". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 70 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Roberts, Ernie (October 18, 1981). "Dartmouth Whips Harvard". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 80 – via Newspapers.com.
9. Reinert, Bob (October 25, 1981). "Dartmouth Coasts". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
10. Concannon, Joe (November 1, 1981). "Rogan, Yale Dispose of Dartmouth". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
11. Newman, David (November 8, 1981). "It's Dartmouth -- in a Real Breeze". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 80 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Dartmouth Throttles Brown". The Burlington Free Press . Burlington, Vt. Associated Press. November 15, 1981. pp. 3C, 2C – via Newspapers.com.
13. O'Connell, Mike (November 22, 1981). "Dartmouth Shares Title". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. p. 71 – via Newspapers.com.