Princeton Dartmouth Football 1951

Id like to talk to you about one game in particular which took place on november 23 1951 between two american college teams dartmouth and princeton.

Princeton dartmouth football 1951. On a brisk saturday afternoon november 23 1951 the dartmouth football team played princeton in princetons palmer stadium. This football was awarded to princeton captain talbot taylor t. Dartmouth college football history vs princeton university. The football game the students saw had actually been played in 1951 princeton won.

A case study 1954 analyzed what proved to be selective perception of a college football game contested between dartmouth indians and princeton tigers. In 1951 dartmouth and princeton squared off in the last game of the season for both schools. November 24 1951 11241951. L 0 13.

The team was considered the best in the east winning the lambert meadowlands trophy and was ranked sixth nationally. From the princeton university archives. The 1951 dartmouth indians football team was an american football team that represented dartmouth college as an independent during the 1951 college football season. The 1951 princeton tigers football team represented princeton university in the 1951 college football season.

Paramount newsreels about football matches when pennsylvania beat princeton 23 0 1941 and when princeton beat cornell 53 15 with dick kazmaier 1951. Princeton was undefeated so far that year and one of its players richard kazmaier had just appeared on the cover of time magazine a publication for which i used to workthough not in 1951. Princeton had won every game up to that point. It was a rough game with many penalties and it had aroused a furore of editorials in the campus newspapers and elsewhere.

November 30 1951 princeton and dartmouth continued yesterday to snipe sharply at each other on the undergraduate level about alleged roughness in last saturdays football game but officials kept. In their ninth season under head coach tuss mclaughry the indians compiled a 45 record and were outscored 152 to 121 by their opponents. According to the new york times the game was poorly played with the result more attributable to bad playing by dartmouth rather than the decided superiority of the tigers. Its star player dick kazmaier had been featured on the cover of time that same year and would go on to become the last ivy league player to receive the heisman trophy.

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