Along with his younger brother Cleveland Hoadley Dodge,[4] he attended Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts, and was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton.

Dodge was the captain of the national champion 1877 Princeton Tigers football team.

[1] He also led the meeting of the group on Nov. 18, 1876, in East College that launched the collegiate branch of the International YMCA.

[9] After his death, she married Stephen Henry Olin,[6] the one-time acting president of Wesleyan University[10] Dodge is the namesake of Dodge-Osborn Hall.

[11] His brother Cleveland commissioned sculptor Daniel Chester French to build a memorial to Earl, dedicated May 30, 1913.