Streaking

The Analyst football site has a piece headlined The Longest Winning Streaks in FCS History and it has Ivy League and Dartmouth mentions among the notable streaks (LINK):

Winning

1. North Dakota State (2017-20) – 39 Games

Start: South Dakota 49-14 (2017); End: at Southern Illinois 38-14 (March 27, 2021)

And then, scrolling down the list . . . 

T5. Penn (1992-95) – 24 Games

Start: Harvard (1992); End: at Columbia 24-14 (1995)

T7. Harvard (2013-15) – 22 Games

Start: Dartmouth 24-21 (2013); End: Penn 35-25 (2015)

Also in the story . . .

Additional 20-Games Unbeaten Streaks

Dartmouth (1995-97) – 22 Games

21 Wins, 1 Tie

Start: Lafayette 14-7 (1995); Tie: Princeton 10-10 (1995); End: Lehigh 46-26 (1997)

Here are the Dartmouth scores during the 22-game unbeaten streak that started in the fourth game of the 1995 season, and finished in the sixth game of the 1997 season, a span of 750 days without a loss. ;-)

1995

Oct. 7 - Dartmouth 14, Lafayette 7

Oct. 14 - Dartmouth 22, at Yale 7

Oct. 21 - Dartmouth 35, Colgate  14

Oct. 28 - Dartmouth 23, at Harvard  7

Nov. 4 - Dartmouth 43, at Columbia  27

Nov. 11 - Dartmouth 10, Brown 7

Nov. 18 - Dartmouth 10, Princeton 10

1996

Sept. 21 - Dartmouth 24, Penn 22

Sept. 28 - Dartmouth 21 at Lehigh 14

Oct. 5 - Dartmouth 20, Fordham 7

Oct 12 - Dartmouth 35, Holy Cross 7

Oct. 19 - Dartmouth  40, Yale  6

Oct. 26 - Dartmouth  38, at Cornell  21

Nov 2 - Dartmouth 6, at Harvard 3

Nov 9 - Dartmouth 40, Columbia 0

Nov 17 - Dartmouth  27, at Brown 24

Nov 23 - Dartmouth 24, at Princeton 0

1997

Sept. 20 - Dartmouth  23, at Penn 15

Sept. 27 - Dartmouth  35, at Holy Cross  6

Oct. 4 - Dartmouth  24, Cornell 20

Oct 11 - Dartmouth  31, at Fordham 10

Oct. 19 - Dartmouth  21, at Yale 7

Dartmouth has actually had three 22-game unbeaten streaks in its history:

• Between 1923 and 1926 the Big Green went 21-0-1.

• Between 1936 and 1938 the Green went 19-0-3.

• Between 1995 and 1997 Dartmouth went 21-0-1.

While we are at it, the school record for most consecutive wins is 15, which was accomplished four times:

• 1924-26

• 1961-63

• 1970-71

• 1996-97

And finally, the longest Dartmouth winning streaks since the 15-game run from 1996-97:

10 - 2017-18

10 - 2018-19

9 - 2014-15

9 - 2023-24

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This basketball note may open a few eyes. One day after reports surfaced that he was taking an official visit to Tennessee as a grad transfer candidate, Dartmouth shooting guard Ryan Cornish committed to play his final year of college basketball at USC. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT

We had a wonderful day in southern Quebec last week, and are planning a trip to Old Montreal next month when That Certain Dartmouth ’14 and her new husband come east. Although we are headed to the other side of the border this summer, I’m not sure we’re going to see the usual coterie of Canadian campers this year when we hit the state parks in the Twin States. From a story by New Hampshire Public Radio (LINK):

According to the state’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, reservations at state-run campgrounds through the first five months of 2025 show bookings by people with Canadian addresses are down more than 71% compared to the same period last year — from more than 1,000 reservations in 2024 to fewer than 300 this year.