NESN To Broadcast Harvard-Dartmouth Game

Don't want to miss the Harvard-Dartmouth football game but can't make the trip to Hanover? NESN has Crimson fans covered. On October 14th, the station announced that it would broadcast the game live on Oct. 30th, starting at 1:30 p.m.

The contest against the Big Green is one of only three Harvard football games that will be on TV this season. The other left on the schedule is The Game against Yale. The contest against the Dartmouth hasn't recently been one of the Crimson's marquee games–Harvard hasn't lost to the Big Green since 2003–but the game never fails to entertain. Just last year, in fact, the game turned into a heated contest–between two of the Crimson's running backs, senior Gino Gordon and sophomore Treavor Scales, to rush for more yards (Scales racked up 120 yards to Gordon's 119).

But the schools used to be much more competitive with each other. In Buddy Teevens's first year as Dartmouth head coach, the Big Green took two of its five games from Harvard, losing two, and tying the last, a 31-31 draw in Cambridge in 1991. The schools stayed competitive through the mid-90s.

The tide finally turned in 1997 when Harvard stomped on Dartmouth, 24-0, and the Crimson has hardly looked back since. Only the 2003 loss and a narrow 13-12 win in 2004 mar what has otherwise been a Harvard-dominated scene. The Big Green has been doing better this year, and currently boasts a 3-2 record though its Ivy mark stands at 0-2. Will Dartmouth ride homecoming weekend momentum to defeat the Crimson on TV? Or will Harvard win its seventh straight against the Big Green? Only time–and regional television–will tell.