A Look At History

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There's not much new on eBay when it comes to Dartmouth football but I hadn't seen the Memorial Field view shown in this postcard which is selling for $3.49 with two days remaining. LINK

Information accompanying the sale says it was postmarked in 1983, which suggests it might have been sitting in someone's sock drawer for many years before it ever got used. Interesting to note, in addition to the tiny visiting stands, there are two football practice fields – one lighted – and three sets of goalposts set up in the baseball outfield. The baseball field is aligned so that a shot to straightaway center would parallel the football field. Today the first base line pretty much parallels the football field, now hidden by Floren Varsity House.

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With the Dartmouth football awards banquet on tap this morning it's as good a time as any to revisit a little bit of history, so here goes:

Most Ivy League football titles

17 - Dartmouth

16 - Penn

15 - Harvard

14 - Yale

10 - Princeton

4 - Brown

3 - Cornell

1 - Columbia

Most Solo Ivy League titles

13 - Penn

9 - Dartmouth

7 - Harvard

6 - Yale

3 - Princeton

1 - Brown

0 - Columbia

0 - Cornell

Last Ivy League title
Harvard - 2013
Princeton - 2013
Penn - 2012
Brown - 2008
Yale - 2006
Dartmouth - 1996
Cornell - 1990
Columbia - 1961