1923 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1923 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1923 college football season. In their first season under head coach Jesse Hawley, the Indians compiled an 8–1 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 202 to 54.[1]

1923 Dartmouth Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainCyril J. Aschenbach
Home stadiumMemorial Field
1923 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell   –  8 –0 –0
Yale   –  8 –0 –0
St. John's   –  5 –0 –1
Dartmouth   –  8 –1 –0
Syracuse   –  8 –1 –0
Boston College   –  7 –1 –1
Rutgers   –  7 –1 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  6 –1 –1
Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Lafayette   –  6 –1 –2
Tufts   –  6 –2 –0
Army   –  6 –2 –1
Colgate   –  6 –2 –1
Geneva   –  6 –2 –1
Lehigh   –  6 –2 –1
NYU   –  6 –2 –1
Penn State   –  6 –2 –1
Vermont   –  6 –3 –1
Brown   –  6 –4 –0
Harvard   –  4 –3 –1
Carnegie Tech   –  4 –3 –1
Penn   –  5 –4 –0
Pittsburgh   –  5 –4 –0
Bucknell   –  4 –4 –1
Columbia   –  4 –4 –1
Duquesne   –  4 –4 –0
Princeton   –  3 –3 –1
Franklin & Marshall   –  3 –5 –1
Drexel   –  2 –6 –0
Buffalo   –  2 –5 –1
Fordham   –  2 –7 –0
Boston University   –  1 –6 –0
Villanova   –  0 –7 –1
Temple   –  0 –5 –0
CCNY   –  0 –7 –0
Springfield   –  0 –7 –0

In November 1923, Dartmouth began a 22-game unbeaten streak that continued until October 1926.[2]

Cyril J. Aschenbach was the team captain. H. Lester Haws was the team's leading scorer with 60 points scored on 10 touchdowns. Ed B. Dooley and R. B. Hall followed with 24 points each.[3]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Norwich
W 13–0
October 6Maine
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 6–0
October 13Boston University
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 24–0[4]
October 20at Vermont
W 27–2[5]
October 27at Harvard
W 16–052,000[6]
November 3Cornell
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
L 7–32> 15,000[7][8]
November 102:00 p.m.vs. Brown
W 16–1425,000[9][10]
November 17Colby
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 62–0
November 29at Columbia
W 31–6

References
  1. "1923 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. "Varsity Football 1924" (PDF). Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  4. "Dartmouth Too Strong For B.U.: Piles Up 24 Points and Blanks Terriers". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1923. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Dartmouth Squares Up for '22 Defeat". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1923. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Harvard Suffers Rude Setback At Dartmouth Hands". Buffalo Courier. October 28, 1923. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Great Cornell Gridiron Team Rides Roughshod Over Dartmouth 32 to 7". Ithaca Journal-News. November 5, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Cornell Romps Over Dartmouth Team: Big Red Eleven Crushes Green By Score of 32-7". New York Daily News. November 4, 1923. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Halligan, John J. (November 10, 1923). "Bear Believe Teeth and Claws Sharp Enough to Do The Trick—Dartmouth Is Confident of Victory". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 9. Retrieved September 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. John J. Hallahan (November 11, 1923). "Brown's Desperate Rally Falls Short". The Boston Globe. pp. 1, 19 – via Newspapers.com.


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