The Fifth-Down Game featured a great matchup between Cornell and Dartmouth as well as one of the most amazing displays of sportsmanship in the history of sports. In the only college football game to be decided off the field, Dartmouth is listed as the victor in the records books; however, in the end, both teams proved victorious.
 
The infamous Fifth-Down Game, ranked as the second-best moment in the history of college football by Beano Cook, took place on Nov. 16, 1940, with undefeated and No. 2-ranked Cornell visiting a Dartmouth team that entered the contest at 3-4 overall. The home squad scored the game’s first points on a field goal with minutes to play, but Cornell marched down the field and gave itself a first-and-goal at the six-yard line with under a minute remaining. That is where the story of the Fifth-Down Game truly begins.

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