Ohio State at Columbia

Saturday, October 16, 1926

Ohio State beat Columbia 32–⁠7. It was their second meeting; Ohio State leads the series 2–⁠0.

AwayOhio State7–⁠1 in 1926
32
HomeColumbia6–⁠3 in 1926
7

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Michigan Beats Minnesota and Illinois Noses Out Iona 7one OHIO STATE ROUTS COLUMBIA, 80 TO 7

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 17, 1926, page 86

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    Michigan Beats Minnesota and Illinois Noses Out Iona 7one OHIO STATE ROUTS COLUMBIA, 80 TO 7 BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 16.-ln a game featured by the broken field run ming of Fred Grim. a substitute. and Capt Marty Karow, Ohio State defeated Columbia. 32 to Z, here today. The winners could not gain consistent ly through the Columbia line, but ran to advantage in the open. Grim. who scored three Of his team S four touchdowns, intercepted Columbia pass and ran 55 yards for touch down. and clipped off % yards from scrimmhqge to score another touch down. Karow ran 55 yards to score after intercepting a pass. The Buck eyes also made two field goals, Clark and Uridil booting the ball between the goal posts from the Is ard 80 yard line respectively. Columbia scored when Alkoff blocked an Ohio punt and fell on the ball on the 3-yard line Norris scored the touchdown on the next play.

  • The Douglas daily dispatch's story: OHIO STATE DEFEATS COLUMBIA, 81 TO 7

    Douglas daily dispatch, October 17, 1926, page 6

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    OHIO STATE DEFEATS COLUMBIA, 81 TO 7 NEW YORK, oct. 16 H4--Tn a game featured by the broken field running of Fred Grim, a sub, and Captain Marty Karow, Ohio State defeated Columbia, so to 7, here today. The winners could not gain consistently through the Columbia line but ram to advantage in the OPENS H9f.& Grim who scored three OK. MS teams four touchdowns,, Intercepted q COLUMBIA pass and ran 55 saTds for touchdown and clipped off 20 yaroa from scrimmage to score another touchdown. Kafow ran 55 yards to score after interccpting a pass. The Buckeyes also made two field goals, Clark and Urid.l booting the Daii between the goal ptASs from the 15 and “a yard line, respectively. Columbia scored when Alkoff block cd an Ohio punt and fell on the bali on the three yard line. Norris scored the touchdown on the next play.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Columbia 59% to win. Ohio State won as Elo’s underdog.

Ohio State leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.

Recent meetings
1926Ohio State 32, Columbia 7
1925Ohio State 9, Columbia 0

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