1925 Dartmouth Indians football team

1925 Dartmouth Indians football
National champion (Dickinson, Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
CaptainNathan Parker
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1924
1926 →
1925 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Dartmouth   –   8 – 0 – 0
Fordham   –   9 – 1 – 0
No. 4 Colgate   –   7 – 0 – 2
No. 10 Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 1 – 1
No. 11 Lafayette   –   7 – 1 – 1
Springfield   –   6 – 1 – 1
Princeton   –   5 – 1 – 1
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 0
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   6 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
NYU   –   6 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   6 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   5 – 2 – 1
Bucknell   –   7 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   6 – 3 – 1
Muhlenberg   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   5 – 2 – 2
Harvard   –   4 – 3 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Penn State   –   4 – 4 – 1
Buffalo   –   3 – 4 – 1
St. John's   –   3 – 4 – 0
Lehigh   –   3 – 5 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 0
Providence   –   2 – 7 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Boston University   –   1 – 5 – 0
Manhattan   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 7 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1925 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1925 college football season. In its third season under head coach Jesse Hawley, the team compiled an 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 340 to 29.[1] The team was designated as 1925 national champions by the Dickinson System and were awarded the Rissman Trophy after its creation the next year.[2] They were also retroactively named champions by Parke H. Davis in the 1934 edition of Spalding's Foot Ball Guide.[3]

Dartmouth's 1925 season was part of a 22-game unbeaten streak that began in November 1923 and continued until October 1926.[4]

Andy Oberlander passed for 14 touchdowns and ran for 12. Dartmouth defeated Harvard, 32–9, its best victory to date over the Crimson.[5] In a 62–13 victory over Cornell, Oberlander had 477 yards in total offense, including six touchdown passes,[6] a Dartmouth record which still stands. He was responsible for some 500 yards of total offense.[7] Cornell coach Gil Dobie responded "We won the game 13–0, passing is not football."[8] The season closed with a 33–7 victory over defending Big Ten champion Chicago. Oberlander threw three touchdowns.[9]

  1. ^ "1925 Dartmouth Big Green Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "Dickison Football Rating System: Dartmouth Declared National Champion". The Pantagraph. January 8, 1926. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Dartmouth Football 1880-1939". Dartmouth College. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  5. ^ "Football Games 1920s". dartmouth.edu.
  6. ^ "Dartmouth Shoots Down Cornell, 62-13, with Aerials". Chicago Tribune. November 8, 1925.
  7. ^ Bernie McCarty. "Oberlander's 500-yard game" (PDF). p. 17.
  8. ^ "Evolution of the Game: The Introduction of the Forward Pass" (PDF). National Football Foundation's Football Letter. 3 (56): 30. October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  9. ^ "How Swede it was: 1924 football". thedartmouth.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2017.