1966 Dartmouth Indians football team

1966 Dartmouth Indians football
Ivy League co-champion
ConferenceIvy League
Record7–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Calhoun
Home stadiumMemorial Field
Seasons
← 1965
1967 →
1966 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth + 6 1 0 7 2 0
Harvard + 6 1 0 8 1 0
Princeton + 6 1 0 7 2 0
Cornell 4 3 0 6 3 0
Yale 3 4 0 4 5 0
Columbia 2 5 0 2 7 0
Penn 1 6 0 2 7 0
Brown 0 7 0 1 8 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1966 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1966 NCAA University Division football season. The Indians shared the championship of the Ivy League in a three-way tie.

In their tenth season under head coach Bob Blackman, the Indians compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents 273 to 131. William Calhoun was the team captain.[1]

The Indians' 6–1 conference record earned a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League standings. The Indians outscored Ivy opponents 250 to 117.[2] Dartmouth defeated one of its co-champions, Princeton, and suffered its lone in-conference loss to the other co-champion, Harvard.

Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.

  1. ^ "Season-by-Season Results: 1940-99". Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 23. Retrieved July 10, 2020.