1993 Dartmouth Big Green football team

The 1993 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College in Ivy League during the 1993 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They were a member of the Ivy League. In its second season under head coach John Lyons, the team compiled a 7–3 record overall and a 6–1 mark against Ivy League opponents.

1993 Dartmouth Big Green football
ConferenceIvy League
1993 record7–3 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coachJohn Lyons (2nd season)
Home stadiumMemorial Field
1993 Ivy League football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 16 Penn $ 7 –0 –0  10 –0 –0
Dartmouth 6 –1 –0  7 –3 –0
Princeton 5 –2 –0  8 –2 –0
Brown 3 –4 –0  4 –6 –0
Cornell 3 –4 –0  4 –6 –0
Yale 2 –5 –0  3 –7 –0
Harvard 1 –6 –0  3 –7 –0
Columbia 1 –6 –0  2 –8 –0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The team's statistical leaders included senior quarterback Jay Fiedler with 2,542 passing yards, senior wide receiver John Hyland with 1,076 receiving yards, and Pete Oberle with 660 rushing yards.[1] Fiedler later played 10 seasons in the National Football League.[2]

Five Dartmouth players were selected by conference coaches as first-team players on the 1993 All-Ivy League team: Fielder at quarterback; Hyland at wide receiver; Andy McDonald at offensive line; George Neos at linebacker; and Jim McGeehan at defensive back.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 18at Penn
L 6–10[4]
September 25Holy Cross*
L 7–13[5]
October 2Bucknell*
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 31–13[6]
October 9at New Hampshire*
L 7–14[7][8]
October 16at Yale
W 31–1418,316[9]
October 23Cornell
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 28–27[10]
October 30Harvard
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 39–34[11]
November 6at Columbia
W 42–25[12]
November 13Brown
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 39–16[13]
November 20Princeton
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH
W 28–22[14]
  • *Non-conference game

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References
  1. "1993 Stats" (PDF). Dartmouth College Athletics. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  2. "Jay Fiedler Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "All Ivy League". Press & Sun-Bulletin. November 24, 1993. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "With weather a key factor, Quakers upset Dartmouth". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 19, 1993. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Allen Lessels (September 26, 1993). "Holy Cross stands tall: Dartmouth gets nowhere against Crusaders' goal-line defense". The Boston Globe. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Dartmouth offense eats up Bison defense to wallop Bucknell 31–12". October 4, 1993. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "UNH wears down Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1993. p. 60 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Dartmouth Loses In-State Battle To New Hampshire". The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus. October 10, 1993. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Bruce Berlet (October 17, 1993). "Yale again doesn't have what it takes: Oberle powers Dartmouth". The Hartford Courant. p. D9 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Fiedler, Dartmouth rally to beat Cornell". The Hartford Courant. October 24, 1993. p. E11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Joe Concannon (October 31, 1993). "Dartmouth burns Harvard: QB Fiedler lights a fire under Big Green in 4th". The Boston Globe. p. 75 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Dartmouth Rolls On". The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus. November 7, 1993. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Tom Haley (November 14, 1993). "Dartmouth Rolls To Easy Victory Over Brown". The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Dartmouth defeats Princeton by 28–22". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 21, 1993. p. D12 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "1993-94 Football Schedule". Dartmouth College Athletics. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  16. "Dartmouth (NH) Yearly Results". CFB Data Warehouse. Retrieved April 17, 2019.


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