1934 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1934 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their first season under head coach Earl Blaik, the Indians compiled a 6–3 record. George Hill was the team captain.[1]

1934 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainGeorge Hill
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Seasons
← 1933
1935 →
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts     8 0 0
Trinity (CT)     7 0 0
La Salle     7 0 1
Washington College     5 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 1 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
No. 8 Colgate     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 0
No. 5 Princeton     7 1 0
Duquesne     8 2 0
Holy Cross     8 2 0
No. 15 Temple     7 1 2
No. 10 Syracuse     6 2 0
Bucknell     7 2 2
No. 14 Army     7 3 0
Northeastern     6 1 1
Rochester     5 2 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Saint Anselm     6 3 0
Amherst     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Massachusetts State     5 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Providence     4 3 0
Drexel     4 3 1
Boston College     5 4 0
Bates     3 3 1
Middlebury     3 3 1
Penn     4 4 0
Penn State     4 4 0
Williams     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     4 5 0
Villanova     3 4 2
NYU     3 4 1
Boston University     3 4 0
Colby     3 4 0
Springfield     2 3 3
Manhattan     3 5 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Vermont     2 4 2
Wesleyan     3 5 0
Brown     3 6 0
Geneva     2 5 2
Saint Joseph's     2 5 1
Cornell     2 5 0
Lafayette     2 6 0
Norwich     2 6 0
Bowdoin     0 6 1
Lowell Textile     0 7 1
Rankings from Associated Press

Phil Conti was the team's leading scorer, with 30 points, from five touchdowns.[2]

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

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 Norwich
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 39–0 [1]
October 6 Vermont
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 32–0 [3]
October 13 Maine
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 27–0 [1]
October 20 Virginia
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 27–0 [4]
October 27 at Harvard W 10–0 35,000 [5]
November 3 at Yale L 2–7 40,000 [6]
November 10 New Hampshire
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 21–7 [1]
November 17 at Cornell L 6–21 12,000 [7]
November 24 at Princeton L 13–38 40,000 [8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Season-by-Season Results: 1881-1939". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Annual Scoring Leaders (Since 1925)". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Vermont bows to Dartmouth on grid, 32–0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 7, 1934. Retrieved June 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Dartmouth wins over Cavaliers". The Hartford Courant. October 21, 1934. Retrieved December 17, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Fleisher, Walter (October 28, 1934). "Dartmouth Halts Harvard by 10-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ^ Danzig, Allison (November 4, 1934). "Yale Stops Dartmouth, 7-2, as Jinx in the Bowl Holds". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. ^ Fleisher, Walter (November 18, 1934). "Cornell's Passes Repel Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  8. ^ Fleisher, Walter (November 25, 1934). "Princeton Halts Dartmouth, 38-13". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.