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The Sports Network writes about the top conference games in each FCS league and it pegs the Dartmouth-Harvard game on Halloween as the premier matchup in the Ivies this fall. (LINK)

Nothing surprising there.

What is surprising was a nugget within the TSN capsule:

Dartmouth has the most Ivy titles (17), but none since 1997. Since then, Harvard has won seven titles to close within one of the Big Green at 16 overall. 

I recall thinking when Penn won its 16th Ivy League title in 2012 that at long last someone was knocking on Dartmouth's door. For years, the Big Green publicity machine has been writing something along the lines of, "Dartmouth has won an unprecedented 'x' Ivy League championships," but now that superlative is being challenged on two fronts with both Harvard and Penn within one.

As it turns out, Dartmouth has been perched atop the "most Ivy League championships" standings for 50 years, ever since winning its fourth in 1965.

Thanks to five championships in seven years Yale was running neck-and-neck with Dartmouth in the early 1980s but could never quite catch the Big Green.

Harvard and Penn have come from way back to challenge Dartmouth. The Big Green once had a 17-8 lead over the Crimson and a 13-2 lead over the Quakers.

1956 Yale 1
1957 Princeton 1
1958 Dartmouth 1
1959 Penn 1
1960 Yale 2
1961 Harvard 1, Columbia 1
1962 Dartmouth 2
1963 Dartmouth 3, Princeton 2
1964  Princeton 3
1965 Dartmouth 4
1966 Dartmouth 5, Princeton 4, Harvard 2
1967 Yale 3
1968 Yale 4, Harvard 3
1969 Dartmouth 6 Princeton 5, Yale 5
1970 Dartmouth 7
1971 Dartmouth 8, Cornell 1
1972 Dartmouth 9
1973 Dartmouth 10
1974 Yale 6, Harvard 4
1975 Harvard 5
1976 Yale 7, Brown  1
1977 Yale 8
1978 Dartmouth 11
1979 Yale 9
1980 Yale 19
1981 Dartmouth 12, Yale 11
1982 Dartmouth 13, Harvard 6 Penn 2
1983 Harvard 7, Penn 3
1984 Penn 4
1985 Penn 5
1986 Penn 6
1987 Harvard 8
1988 Penn 7, Cornell 2
1989 Yale 12, Princeton 6
1990 Dartmouth 14, Cornell 3
1991 Dartmouth 15
1992 Dartmouth 16, Princeton 7
1993 Penn 8
1994 Penn 9
1995 Princeton 8
1996 Dartmouth 17
1997 Harvard 9
1998 Penn 10
1999 Yale 13,  Brown 2
2000 Penn 11
2001 Harvard 10
2002Penn 12
2003 Penn 13
2004 Harvard 11
2005  Brown  3
2006 Yale 14, Princeton 9
2007 Harvard 12
2008 Harvard 13,  Brown 4
2009 Penn 14
2010 Penn 15
2011 Harvard 14
2012 Penn 16
2013 Harvard 15, Princeton 19
2014 Harvard 16
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