1916 Dartmouth football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–2
Head coach
CaptainBernard Gerrish
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 0 – 0
Brown   –   8 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   8 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   6 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   6 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Dartmouth   –   5 – 2 – 2
Harvard   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 1 – 2
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 2 – 2
NYU   –   4 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   2 – 5 – 2
Carlisle   –   1 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   2 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 9 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 5 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   1 – 7 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1916 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its sixth and final season under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled a 5–2–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 206 to 47. Bernard Gerrish was the team captain.[1][2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23New HampshireHanover, NH (rivalry)W 33–0
September 30Boston CollegeHanover, NHW 32–6
October 7Lebanon ValleyHanover, NHW 47–0
October 14MassachusettsHanover, NHW 62–0
October 21vs. GeorgetownHaverhill, MAL 0–10[3]
October 28at Princeton
L 3–7
November 4vs. Syracuse
W 15–1012,000–13,000[4][5]
November 11at Penn
T 7–7
November 18West VirginiaHanover, NHT 7–7

References

  1. ^ "1916 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  3. ^ "Georgetown Defeats Dartmouth: Touchdown and Field Goal for G.U. In Winning Over Dartmouth, 10 to 0". The Washington Post. October 22, 1916. p. Sporting 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "12,000 People See The Green Win From Syracuse". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 5, 1916. p. 38. Retrieved June 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Dartmouth Bests Syracuse Burlies". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1916. p. 17. Retrieved June 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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