1896 Dartmouth football team

American college football season

1896 Dartmouth football

TFL champion
Conference	Triangular Football League
Record	5–2–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (2nd season)
Captain	Walter McCornack
Seasons← 1895 1897 →

1896 Triangular Football League standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Dartmouth $	2	–	0	–	0	5	–	2	–	1
Amherst	1	–	1	–	0	3	–	6	–	1
Williams	0	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	1

$ – Conference champion

The 1896 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College as a member of the Triangular Football League (TFL) during the 1896 college football season. Led by second-year head coach William Wurtenburg, Dartmouth compiled an overall record of 5–2–1 with a mark of 2–0 in TFL play, winning the league title.

The number of games played in 1896 was reduced from the previous season, down to a more normal level of eight. One notable absence from the 1896 schedule was a game against rival Harvard, the only time during Wurtenburg's tenure that the Crimson were not played. The 1896 season was also the most successful, winning percentage-wise during Wurtenburg's time as coach; the team finished the year with a .688 win percentage. Following an initial win against the Worcester Athletic Association, the squad suffered back-to-back shutout losses to Yale and Penn. The remainder of the season, however, was highly successful for the team, and they went 4–0–1 in their final five games. This included defeating both TFL opponents by a combined score of 42–0 for a fourth consecutive championship, and a tie with the Brown team they had lost to the previous year.

Walter McCornack was the team's captain. Several members of the team later became college football coaches, including McCornack, Frank Cavanaugh, John B. Eckstorm, David C. MacAndrew, Joseph H. Edwards, Fred Crolius, and Charles J. Boyle.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 3		at Worcester Athletic Association*	Worcester, MA	W 30–0
October 10	3:37 p.m.	at Penn*	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–16	4,000
October 17		at Yale*	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–42
October 28		Bowdoin*	Hanover, NH	W 28–10	500
November 3		at Brown*	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	T 10–10	1,000
November 14		at Amherst	Pratt Field Amherst, MA	W 32–0
November 21	3:00 p.m.	Williams	Hanover, NH	W 10–0	800
November 26		at Newton Athletic Association*	N. A. A. grounds Newton, MA	W 12–6	2,500
*Non-conference game

References

Staff writer (November 13, 1908). "At The Adams House: Harvard-Dartmouth Series". The Dartmouth. XXX (15): 184–185. OCLC 6311027.
Staff (2014). "Schedule & Results–8 Games". 1896 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results. College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
Staff (2013). "Triangular Football League–Conference Championships". Conference Championships Index. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1896". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
"Easy Victory Over Wooster". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 4, 1896. p. 10. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"The Quakers Down Dartmouth". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1896. p. 10. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Yale Beats Dartmouth Easily". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 18, 1896. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
"Dartmouth 28, Bowdoin 10". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 29, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Brown 10, Dartmouth 10". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Close Football Game". The Fall River Daily Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. November 4, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Dartmouth 32, Amherst 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Amherst's Eleven Too Light". The Sunday Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. November 15, 1896. p. 11. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Dartmouth Wins". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 22, 1896. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
"Met on Muddy Gridirons". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 27, 1896. p. 8. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

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v t e Triangular Football League champions
Williams (1885) Williams (1886) MIT (1887) Dartmouth & MIT (1888) Dartmouth (1889) Williams (1890) Williams (1891) Amherst (1892) Dartmouth (1893) Dartmouth (1894) Dartmouth (1895) Dartmouth (1896) Dartmouth (1897) Dartmouth (1898) Wesleyan (1899) Wesleyan (1900) Williams (1901)

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