1895 Dartmouth football team

1895 Dartmouth football
Triangular Football League champions
Conference	Triangular Football League
1895 record	7–5–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (1st year)
Captain	Walter McCornack
Home stadium	Unknown

1895 Triangular Football League standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Dartmouth $	2	–	0	–	0			7	–	5	–	1
Amherst	1	–	1	–	0			6	–	5	–	0
Williams	0	–	2	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
$ – Conference champion

The 1895 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1895 college football season.^[1]\

Wurtenburg scheduled a thirteen-game season for 1895, a still-standing record at Dartmouth for most games played in a single year.^[2] The team went 7–5–1, which included a 2–0 record against Triangular Football League opponents. The season began with a 50–0 shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, which was followed by a close game with Harvard. The match was hard-fought; Harvard won by a slim 4–0 margin, the closest that a Dartmouth team had gotten to beating Harvard.^[3] The squad then played three smaller colleges, winning two of the games and tying the other. The team then went back-and-forth between losing and winning, falling twice to Yale and once to West Point, but defeating MIT and Boston. Conference opponents Williams and Amherst were defeated by a combined score of 30–5, and the team was awarded its third straight Triangular Football League championship. The season ended on a negative note, however, with a close 10–4 loss to Brown.^[4][5]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 25	Phillips Exeter Academy*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 50–0
September 28	at Harvard*	Soldier Field • Cambridge, MA	L 0–4
October 4	at South Berwick*	Unknown • South Berwick, ME	W 10–6
October 5	at Bowdoin College*	Unknown • Brunswick, ME	T 10–10
October 13	Bates College*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 38–0
October 16	at Yale*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	L 0–26
October 19	MIT*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 30–0
October 26	at West Point*	"The Plain" • West Point, NY	L 0–6
November 2	Boston University*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 12–0
November 6	at Yale*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	L 0–32
November 9	Amherst	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 20–0
October 16	at Williams	Unknown • Williamstown, MA	W 10–5
November 25	at Brown*	Unknown • Providence, RI	L 4–10
*Non-conference game.

References

1. 1895 Dartmouth College football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
2. Staff (July 21, 2010). "Dartmouth Football Timeline". Dartmouth Big Green Football. Dartmouth College. 1895. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
3. Staff writer (November 13, 1908). "At The Adams House: Harvard-Dartmouth Series". The Dartmouth XXX (15): 184–185. OCLC 6311027.
4. Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1895". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 5, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
5. Staff (2013). "Triangular Football League–Conference Championships". Conference Championships Index. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.