1897 Dartmouth football team

1897 Dartmouth Big Green football
Triangular Football League champions
Conference	Triangular Football League
1897 record	4–3 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (3rd year)
Captain	John Eckstorm
Home stadium	Unknown

The 1897 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1897 college football season.^[1]

Dartmouth played only seven games during the 1897 season, the fewest of any year under Wurtenburg. The squad completed the year with a mediocre 4–3 record. Despite going 2–0 in conference games, the team lost three consecutive games in major shutouts. The season began with a shutout of Phillips Exeter, but quickly turned for the worse. Harvard returned to Dartmouth's schedule and defeated them 13–0. The loss was followed by blowout defeats by Princeton and Penn, losing by combined score of 64–0. The squad took a week-long break, which allowed them to recover and defeat conference opponents Amherst and Williams by more than fifty points in each game to win a fifth consecutive championship. As with the previous year, the season concluded with a defeat of the Newton Athletic Club.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 2	Phillips Exeter Academy*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 34–0
October 9	at Harvard*	Soldier Field • Cambridge, MA	L 0–13
October 16	at Penn*	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	L 0–34
October 30	at Princeton*	Osborne Field • Princeton, NJ	L 0–30
November 13	Amherst	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 54–0
November 20	at Williams	Unknown • Williamstown, MA	W 52–0
November 25	Newton A.C.*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 24–0
*Non-conference game.

References

↑ 1897 Dartmouth College football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
↑ Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1897". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.

Dartmouth Big Green football

Venues	Memorial Field (1923–present)

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Culture & lore	Keggy the Keg "Dartmouth's In Town Again" Fifth Down Game

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