1912 Dartmouth football team

American college football season

1912 Dartmouth football

Conference	Independent
Record	7–2
Head coach	Frank Cavanaugh (2nd season)
Captain	Ray Bennett
Seasons← 1911 1913 →

1912 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		9	–	0	–	0
Penn State		–		8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle		–		12	–	1	–	1
Maine		–		7	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore		–		7	–	1	–	1
Yale		–		7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh		–		9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan		–		7	–	2	–	0
Colgate		–		5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State		–		6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	3	–	1
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	0
Penn		–		7	–	4	–	0
Army		–		5	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross		–		4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers		–		5	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		5	–	4	–	0
Fordham		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey		–		2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse		–		4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire		–		3	–	4	–	1
Geneva		–		3	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Boston College		–		2	–	4	–	1
Cornell		–		3	–	7	–	0
NYU		–		2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Dartmouth football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. In its second season under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled a 7–2 record, shut out six of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 281 to 34. Frederick E. Jennings was hired as the assistant coach for the season. Ray Bennett was the team captain.

Tackle Wesley Englehorn was a consensus first-team pick on the 1912 All-America college football team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21	Bates	Hanover, NH	W 26–0
September 28	Norwich	Hanover, NH	W 41–9
October 5	Massachusetts	Hanover, NH	W 47–0
October 12	Vermont	Hanover, NH	W 55–0
October 19	at Williams	Williamstown, MA	W 21–0
October 26	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 7–22
November 2	Amherst	Hanover, NH	W 60–0
November 9	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 24–0
November 16	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–3	40,000

References

"1912 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
"Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
"Dartmouth 55, Vermont 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1912. Retrieved June 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
"Harvard the Winner, 3 to 0: Goal by Brickley Spells Defeat For Green". The Boston Globe. November 17, 1913. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.

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