1895 Dartmouth football team

The 1895 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1895 college football season.[1] Head coach William Wurtenburg scheduled a 13-game season for 1895, a still-standing record at Dartmouth for most games played in a single year.[2] The team went 7–5–1, which included a 2–0 record against Triangular Football League opponents. The season began with a 50–0 shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, which was followed by a close game with Harvard. The match was hard-fought; Harvard won by a slim 4–0 margin, the closest that a Dartmouth team had gotten to beating Harvard.[3] The squad then played three smaller colleges, winning two of the games and tying the other. The team then went back-and-forth between losing and winning, falling twice to Yale and once to West Point, but defeating MIT and Boston. Conference opponents Williams and Amherst were defeated by a combined score of 30–5, and the team was awarded its third straight Triangular Football League championship. The season ended on a negative note, however, with a close 10–4 loss to Brown.[4][5]

1895 Dartmouth football
TFL champion
ConferenceTriangular Football League
1895 record7–5–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coachWilliam Wurtenburg (1st season)
CaptainWalter McCornack
1895 Triangular Football League standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –0  7 –5 –1
Amherst 1 –1 –0  6 –5 –0
Williams 0 –2 –0  4 –5 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
September 25Phillips Exeter Academy*Hanover, NHW 50–0
September 28at Harvard*
L 0–4
October 4at South Berwick*South Berwick, MEW 10–6
October 5at Bowdoin*Brunswick, MET 10–10
October 13Bates*Hanover, NHW 38–0
October 16at Yale*
L 0–26
October 19MIT*Hanover, NHW 30–0
October 26at Army*
L 0–6
November 2Boston University*Hanover, NHW 12–0
November 6at Yale*
  • Yale Field
  • New Haven, CT
L 0–32
November 9AmherstHanover, NHW 20–0
October 16at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 10–5
November 25at Brown*Providence, RIL 4–10
  • *Non-conference game

References
  1. 1895 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  2. Staff (July 21, 2010). "Dartmouth Football Timeline". Dartmouth Big Green Football. Dartmouth College. 1895. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  3. Staff writer (November 13, 1908). "At The Adams House: Harvard-Dartmouth Series". The Dartmouth. XXX (15): 184–185. OCLC 6311027.
  4. Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1895". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  5. Staff (2013). "Triangular Football League–Conference Championships". Conference Championships Index. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.


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