1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1939 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1939 college football season. The Indians were led by sixth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They finished with a record of 5–3–1 and outscored opponents by a total of 154 to 73.[1][2] After amassing a 5–0–1 record to start the season and shutting out four of those opponents, Dartmouth ascended to 14th in the AP Poll, but lost their last three contests against, No. 4 Cornell, Princeton, and a Stanford team that finished 1–7–1—their only win coming against Dartmouth. Indians finish the year unranked.

1939 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
1939 record	5–3–1
Head coach	Earl Blaik (6th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field

1939 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result
September 30	St. Lawrence		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 41–9
October 7	Hampden–Sydney		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 34–6
October 14	at Navy		Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	T 0–0
October 21	Lafayette		Memorial Field Hanover, MH	W 14–0
October 28	at Harvard		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–0
November 4	at Yale		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 33–0
November 11	at Princeton	No. 14	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 7–9
November 18	No. 4 Cornell	No. 20	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 6–35
December 2	vs. Stanford		Polo Grounds Nork York, NY	L 3–14
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

1. "1939 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
2. "Dartmouth Game by Game Results". web.archive.org. September 6, 2015. Retrieved July 2, 2020.