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
Conference	Independent
1934 record	6–3
Head coach	Earl Blaik (1st season)
Captain	George Hill
Home stadium	Memorial Field

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
Franklin & Marshall			–					8	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					7	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Duquesne			–					8	–	2	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					7	–	1	–	2
Syracuse			–					6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					7	–	2	–	2
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 (MA)			–					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

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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Norwich	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 39–0		[1]
October 6	Vermont	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 32–0		[1]
October 13	Maine	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 27–0		[1]
October 20	Virginia	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 27–0		[1]
October 27	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 10–0	35,000	[3]
November 3	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 2–7	40,000	[4]
November 10	New Hampshire	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 21–7		[1]
November 17	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 6–21	12,000	[5]
November 24	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 13–38	40,000	[6]

References

1. "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. Fleisher, Walter (October 28, 1934). "Dartmouth Halts Harvard by 10-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
4. 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.
5. Fleisher, Walter (November 18, 1934). "Cornell's Passes Repel Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
6. Fleisher, Walter (November 25, 1934). "Princeton Halts Dartmouth, 38-13". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.