Columbia at Cornell

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  The New York herald, New York, N.Y., November 14, 1920, page 51

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  COLUMBIA NO MATCH FOR THE CORNELL TEAM Clearly Outplayed in Every Period Except the Third at Ithaca. FINAL SCORE Is 81 TO z $4,000 Crowd Schoellkoph Field and See Visitors Line Crumble. Special Despatch 20 THE NEW YORK HERtTI. ITHACA, N z, Nov. 13.-By combining fast rushing attack with stone wall defence Cornell crushed Columbia football team on SchoelIkops Field to-day by a “a TO score. The team from New York was clearly out2layed in every period except the third, in which Buck ONeilrs offence got going and took the ball straight down the field for Column bias only score of the day. The game was fast with Columbia receiving the only penalties. Columbia showed weak ness IN handling the ball. tumble on Cornell’s 10-yard line destroying tho New Workers. only hope for second touchdown It was alumni day at Cornell. and sew eral thousand graduates were on the campus 70 witness what was probably the home teams biggest game Of the year on its grounds. In addition 10 the Cor nell rooters several hundred Columbia alumni and undergraduates travelled to Ithaca yesterday by train and automobile to watch their team make It’s first appearance on a foreign gridiron since football was abolished at the Morning side Heights institution in 1905. Eighty Columbia undergraduates duplicated the Cornell rooters’ feat in coming to the Dartmouth game In trucks last week. They arrived at Schoellkopf Field few minutes before the opening kick off after a continuous trip of twenty-four hours. Graduate manager ROmeyn Berry OF Cornell estimated last night that despite the bitter cold and chilly winds which swept the stands. over fourteen thousand were in attendance at the game. the largest crowd that has invaded Schoellkopf Field this season. The temporary stands which had been erected in anticipatton of the record crowd were filled almost to capacity.

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  The Washington herald, November 14, 1920, page 10

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  CORNELL TRIMS COLUMBIA, 34–⁠7 New Workers Unable to Cope With Aerial Attack Of Dobiie Proteges. ITHACA, y. Y. Nov. l3.-Cornell celebrated alumni day and incidentally the first meeting with Co. lumbia in fifteen years by soundly trouncing the visitors to the tune of “a to Z. The victors uncorked a varied offense, largely of the open variety. Eat Columbia could not cope with. The New Workers fought hard but were pitted against odds too great to conquer. Columbia’s exhibition stamped the team as one of the gamest on the gridiron today. The upstate team unleashed a strong offensive at the outset of the second half which pushed the Columbians down the field without any noticeable difficulty and Carey placed the ball on the Columbia 1-yard line for a first down. Mayer took the ball over the line on the first play and kicked goal.

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Cornell leads 52–⁠36–⁠3 in 91 meetings, counting the 83 since this game.