1982 Dartmouth Big Green football team

The 1982 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Big Green were one of three co-champions of the Ivy League.

1982 Dartmouth Big Green football
Ivy League co-champion
ConferenceIvy League
Record5–5 (5–2 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • Sean Mahler
  • David Neslund
Home stadiumMemorial Field
1982 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard + 5 2 07 3 0
Penn + 5 2 07 3 0
Dartmouth + 5 2 05 5 0
Princeton 3 4 03 7 0
Yale 3 4 04 6 0
Brown 3 4 05 5 0
Cornell 3 4 04 6 0
Columbia 1 6 01 9 0
  • + Conference co-champions

In its fifth season under head coach Joe Yukica, the team compiled a 5–5 record but was outscored 235 to 219. Sean Mahler and David Neslund were the team captains.

The Big Green's 5–2 conference record put them in a three-way tie atop the Ivy League standings. Dartmouth outscored Ivy opponents 170 to 145. Dartmouth had beaten both of its co-champions, Harvard and Penn, in head-to-head matchups.

This was Dartmouth's first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since 1881.

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

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