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1912 Dartmouth football team

1912 Dartmouth football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
CaptainRay Bennett
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
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
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.[1][2]

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

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21BatesHanover, NHW 26–0
September 28NorwichHanover, NHW 41–9
October 5MassachusettsHanover, NHW 47–0
October 12VermontHanover, NHW 55–0[3]
October 19at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 21–0
October 26at PrincetonL 7–22
November 2AmherstHanover, NHW 60–0
November 9at Cornell
W 24–0
November 16at HarvardL 0–340,000[4]

References

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  1. ^ "1912 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  2. ^ "Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  3. ^ "Dartmouth 55, Vermont 0". The New York Times. October 13, 1912. Retrieved June 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "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.