1939 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1939 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1939 college football season. The Indians were led by sixth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They finished with a record of 5–3–1 and outscored opponents by a total of 154 to 73.^[1][2] After amassing a 5–0–1 record to start the season and shutting out four of those opponents, Dartmouth ascended to 14th in the AP Poll, but lost their last three contests against, No. 4 Cornell, Princeton, and a Stanford team that finished 1–7–1—their only win coming against Dartmouth. Northwestern finish the year unranked in the AP poll and were ranked No. 29 in the final Litkenhous Ratings.^[3]

1939 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Earl Blaik (6th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Field
Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	St. Lawrence		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 41–9	6,000	[4]
October 7	Hampden–Sydney		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 34–6
October 14	at Navy		Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	T 0–0
October 21	Lafayette		Memorial Field Hanover, MH	W 14–0		[5]
October 28	at Harvard		Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 16–0	35,000	[6]
November 4	at Yale		Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 33–0
November 11	at Princeton	No. 14	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 7–9
November 18	No. 4 Cornell	No. 20	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 6–35	16,000	[7]
December 2	vs. Stanford		Polo Grounds Nork York, NY	L 3–14	10,603	[8]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game