1938 Dartmouth Indians football team

The 1938 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1938 college football season. The Indians were led by fifth-year head coach Earl Blaik and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. The Indians finished with a record of 7–2, finishing No. 20 in the final AP Poll. Their loss on the road to rival Cornell snapped a 22-game unbeaten streak.

1938 Dartmouth Indians football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 20
Record	7–2
Head coach	Earl Blaik (5th season)
Captain	Bob MacLeod
Home stadium	Memorial Field

1938 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Worcester Tech			–					6	–	0	–	0
No. 18 Villanova			–					8	–	0	–	1
No. 9 Holy Cross			–					8	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 12 Cornell			–					5	–	1	–	1
Army			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 8 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
No. 20 Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	0
CCNY			–					4	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	2	–	3
Manhattan			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
La Salle			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston University			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					3	–	4	–	1
Hofstra			–					2	–	3	–	1
Duquesne			–					4	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	6	–	1
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					3	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					2	–	6	–	0
Yale			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	6	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Source
September 24	Bates		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 46–0
October 1	St. Lawrence		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 51–0
October 8	at Princeton		Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 22–0
October 15	Brown		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 34–13
October 22	at Harvard	No. 4	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA (rivalry)	W 13–7
October 29	at Yale	No. 6	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 24–6
November 5	Dickinson	No. 5	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 44–6
November 12	at No. 20 Cornell	No. 5	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 7–14
November 26	at Stanford	No. 13	Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	L 13–23
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game