1993 Dartmouth Big Green football
ConferenceIvy League
Record7–3 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Seasons
← 1992
1994 →
1993 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 16 Penn $ 7 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth 6 – 1 – 0 7 – 3 – 0
Princeton 5 – 2 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Brown 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Cornell 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Yale 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Harvard 1 – 6 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Columbia 1 – 6 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 1993 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College in Ivy League during the 1993 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They were a member of the Ivy League. In its second season under head coach John Lyons, the team compiled a 7–3 record overall and a 6–1 mark against Ivy League opponents.

The team's statistical leaders included senior quarterback Jay Fiedler with 2,542 passing yards, senior wide receiver John Hyland with 1,076 receiving yards, and Pete Oberle with 660 rushing yards.[1] Fiedler later played 10 seasons in the National Football League.[2]

Five Dartmouth players were selected by conference coaches as first-team players on the 1993 All-Ivy League team: Fielder at quarterback; Hyland at wide receiver; Andy McDonald at offensive line; George Neos at linebacker; and Jim McGeehan at defensive back.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18at Penn
L 6–1013,488[4]
September 25Holy Cross*
L 7–134,925[5]
October 2Bucknell*
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 31–137,858[6]
October 9at New Hampshire*
L 7–146,309[7][8]
October 16at Yale
W 31–1418,316[9]
October 23Cornell
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 28–277,023[10][11]
October 30Harvard
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 39–3411,030[12]
November 6at Columbia
W 42–254,485[13]
November 13Brown
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 39–165,913[14]
November 20Princeton
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 28–229,120[15]
  • *Non-conference game

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References

  1. ^ "1993 Stats" (PDF). Dartmouth College Athletics. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  2. ^ "Jay Fiedler Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "All Ivy League". Press & Sun-Bulletin. November 24, 1993. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Juliano, Joe (September 19, 1993). "With Weather a Key Factor, Quakers Upset Dartmouth". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Lessels, Allen (September 26, 1993). "Holy Cross Stands Tall: Dartmouth Gets Nowhere Against Crusaders' Goal-Line Defense". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Couragen, Chris (October 4, 1993). "Dartmouth Offense Eats up Bison Defense to Wallop Bucknell 31–12". The Danville News. Danville, Pa. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Lessels, Allen (October 10, 1993). "UNH Wears Down Dartmouth". Boston Sunday Globe. p. 60 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Dartmouth Loses In-State Battle to New Hampshire". The Sunday Rutland Herald. Rutland, Vt. October 10, 1993. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Berlet, Bruce (October 17, 1993). "Yale Again Doesn't Have What It Takes: Oberle Powers Dartmouth". The Hartford Courant. p. D9 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Fiedler, Dartmouth Rally to Beat Cornell". The Hartford Courant. Associated Press. October 24, 1993. p. E11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Dartmouth Burns Cornell in 4th Quarter". Press & Sun-Bulletin. Binghamton, N.Y. Associated Press. October 24, 1993. pp. 5D, 6D – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Concannon, Joe (October 31, 1993). "Dartmouth Burns Harvard: QB Fiedler Lights a Fire Under Big Green in 4th". Boston Sunday Globe. p. 75 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Dartmouth Rolls On". The Sunday Rutland Herald. Rutland, Vt. November 7, 1993. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Ivy League Summaries: Dartmouth, 42-25". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 7, 1993. p. 62 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Haley, Tom (November 14, 1993). "Dartmouth Rolls to Easy Victory Over Brown". The Sunday Rutland Herald. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Ivy League Summaries: Dartmouth 39, Brown 16". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 14, 1993. p. 60.
  15. ^ "Dartmouth Defeats Princeton by 28–22". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. Associated Press. November 21, 1993. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "1993-94 Football Schedule". Dartmouth College Athletics. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  17. ^ "Dartmouth (NH) Yearly Results". CFB Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2019.


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