1895 Dartmouth football team

The 1895 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1895 college football season.[1] Head coach William Wurtenburg scheduled a 13-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]

1895 Dartmouth football
TFL champion
Conference	Triangular Football League
1895 record	7–5–1 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (1st season)
Captain	Walter McCornack

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 25	Phillips Exeter Academy*	Hanover, NH	W 50–0
September 28	at Harvard*	Soldier's Field Cambridge, MA (rivalry)	L 0–4
October 4	at South Berwick*	South Berwick, ME	W 10–6
October 5	at Bowdoin*	Brunswick, ME	T 10–10
October 13	Bates*	Hanover, NH	W 38–0
October 16	at Yale*	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–26
October 19	MIT*	Hanover, NH	W 30–0
October 26	at Army*	The Plain West Point, New York	L 0–6
November 2	Boston University*	Hanover, NH	W 12–0
November 6	at Yale*	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–32
November 9	Amherst	Hanover, NH	W 20–0
October 16	at Williams	Williamstown, MA	W 10–5
November 25	at Brown*	Providence, RI	L 4–10
*Non-conference game

References

1. 1895 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. 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.