The 2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team represented

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in the

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as a member of the

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. The Big Green were led by head coach

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in his 14th straight year and 19th overall. They played their home games at Memorial Field. They finished the season 9–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to place second. Dartmouth averaged 4,006 fans per game.

Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of five home games and five away games. The Big Green hosted Ivy League foes Penn,

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, and

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, and traveled to

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, Columbia, and

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. Dartmouth's non-conference opponents were Georgetown and

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, and

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coincided with the game against Harvard on October 27.

Game summaries

Georgetown

At Holy Cross

Penn

At Yale

Sacred Heart

At Columbia

Harvard

At Princeton

At Cornell

Brown

Ranking movements

References

Dartmouth Dartmouth Big Green football seasons

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