GREAT DARTMOUTH TEAMS THAT NEVER PLAYED A BOWL GAME

1903

DESPITE AN 11-0 VICTORY IN THE inaugural game at Harvard's new stadium, the Green's hopes for a national tide were foiled by a loss to eventual champion Princeton, the only blemish in a 9-1-0 season.

1925

LED BY THE PASSING ATTACK OF All American back A. J. "Swede" Oberlander '26, Dartmouth rolled to an 8-0-0 record, crushing its opponents by an aggregate score of 340-29. Despite being unanimously considered the national champion, Dartmouth did not receive an invitation to play at the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.

1937

ROBERT MACLEOD '39 AND "BOMB-SHELL Bill" Hutchinson '40 led the Green to a 7-0-2 season, marred only by ties with Cornell and Yale. When Dartmouth received an invitation to the Rose Bowl, President Hopkins turned it down, saying, "If one held to the fundamental philosophy

of college men incidentally playing as against football players incidentally going to college, most of the evils of inter- collegiate competition would be avoided."

1962

QUARTERBACK WILLIAM HAVEN KING '63 and Coach Bob Blackman led Dartmouth to a 9-0-0 season, its first perfect record since 1925. National champion USC and Sugar Bowl winner Mississippi were the only other teams in the country with unblemished records. Although Dartmouth was ranked 11th in the season-end Associated Press poll, it could not appear in postseason action because of the agreement among the eight Ivy League schools not to participate in postseason play.

1965

DARTMOUTH WAS RANKED 11TH by the Associated Press, the only team

in the poll with a perfect record, and won the prestigious Lambert Trophy as the top team in the East. The selection of Dartmouth did not come without controversy, however. Columnist Arnie Burdick of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, among others, criticized the Ivy League's "watered-down" schedules as an admission "that they no longer could compete" with big-time college football. Coach Blackman declined a job with Big Ten power lowa to remain at Dartmouth.

1970

IN BLACKMAN'S LAST YEAR, THE 14TH- ranked Green shut out six of its nine opponents and allowed only a record-low 42 points in a 9-0-0 season. Blackman considered this squad the best he ever coached at Dartmouth; he nominated 16 out of 22 starters for the All-Ivy League team.

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Dartmouth spoils Harvard's 1903stadium opener with an 11-0victory.