1937 Dartmouth Indians football team

American college football season

1937 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 7
Record	7–0–2
Head coach	Earl Blaik (4th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field
Seasons← 1936 1938 →

1937 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 1 Pittsburgh		–		9	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Villanova		–		8	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Fordham		–		7	–	0	–	1
No. 7 Dartmouth		–		7	–	0	–	2
No. T–14 Holy Cross		–		8	–	0	–	2
St. Thomas (PA)		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Yale		–		6	–	1	–	1
Army		–		7	–	2	–	0
Boston University		–		6	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		5	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	2	–	1
CCNY		–		5	–	2	–	0
No. 12 Manhattan		–		6	–	3	–	1
Penn State		–		5	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	0
NYU		–		5	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	4
Boston College		–		4	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Buffalo		–		4	–	4	–	0
Princeton		–		4	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	5	–	0
Columbia		–		2	–	5	–	2
Hofstra		–		2	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		2	–	5	–	1
Penn		–		2	–	5	–	1
Providence		–		2	–	6	–	0
Vermont		–		2	–	6	–	0
La Salle		–		2	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts State		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1937 college football season. The Indians were led by fourth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Indians finished undefeated with a record of 7–0–2, finishing No. 7 in the final AP Poll, their highest ever finish. Dartmouth was invited to play in the 1938 Rose Bowl, but declined the invitation.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
September 25	Bates		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 39–0
October 2	Amherst		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 31–7
October 9	Springfield		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 42–0
October 16	at Brown		Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 41–0
October 23	at Harvard	No. 18	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 20–2	50,000
October 30	at No. 5 Yale	No. 9	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 9–9
November 6	at Princeton	No. 9	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 33–9
November 13	Cornell	No. 5	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	T 6–6
November 20	at Columbia	No. 9	Baker Field New York, NY	W 27–0
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

"1937 Final AP Football Poll". CollegePollArchive.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
"Dartmouth Big Green School History". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
DeGange, Jack (September 25, 2007). "When Dartmouth Declined the Rose Bowl". DartmouthSports.com. Dartmouth College Varsity Athletics. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
"Indians 20, Harvard 2". New York Daily News. October 24, 1937. p. 90 – via Newspapers.com.
"1937 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 13, 2017.

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