Not surprisingly, perhaps, I tried "Dartmouth Football" and up came a treasure trove of stories, including one from the 1970 Dartmouth-Yale game under this headline:
Just ask the tailgate set who is No. 1
And the answer will be—no, not one of those teams up there on page 15—it will be Dartmouth, which last week shut out Yale in a battle between undefeated and, if you can believe it, nationally ranked teams
I had read the story several times before but had forgotten this piece . . .
"There is a saying at Yale that the alumni would rather beat Harvard, the players would rather beat Princeton and the coaches would rather beat Dartmouth"A crowd of 60,820 watched at the Yale Bowl as Dartmouth dominated the Bulldogs everywhere but on the scoreboard. From the story:
"Although there was a feeling that Dartmouth could have been leading by 40 points, Yale was in the game until the last three minutes when an interception stopped a drive to give Dartmouth the game 10-0."Editor's Note: That sentence could have read, "Although there was a feeling that Dartmouth could have been leading by 40 points, Yale was in the game until the last three minutes when an interception by future Dartmouth broadcaster Wayne Young stopped a drive to give Dartmouth the game 10-0."
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