Columbia at Cornell

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1929, page 92

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  CORNELL PASSES DEFEAT COLUMBIA IthaCans’ Light, Aggressive Team Takes to Air for 12.to-6 Victory. BY the Associated Press. n ITHACA, N. Y, November “A for ward-paSSing attack carried Cor nell’s light but aggressive eleven to Il victory over Columbia today by IL 10 8 and kept the Ithacans’ record clear or defeat or tie. These teams have played Scoreless games in the past two years. Outweighed 20 pounds to the man on the line and beaten to the punch when Columbia scored in the opening period, Cornell came back with all the lighting fire of the best teams Gil Dobie ever turned out here and passed its way to victory. Both of the winning touch downs came on long heaveS that traveled 40 yards and Columbia’s touchdown also resulted from perfect aerial play. Miles Stevens, lanky sophomore from Lakewood, Ohio, and Howard johnson, veteran from Charleston. w. va, leo the Cornell attack and figured in both scoring plays the first touchdown COM ing as a result Of q pass from johnson to Stevens. while in the second Stevens passed to johnson. Big Moments at Close. The big moments of n1elodrama came in the Anal stages Of the game when Columbia advanced from midfield to the five-yard line. with a matter of moments to go, Bill Buser drove three yards through the center field line. It was fourth down with the goal line two yards away. Again Buser plunged. The Red and the Blue and White piled up. The ref cree could not dig them out. Hundreds OF spectators rushed onto the HELD. About the milling mob the referee raised his hands in gesture that meant no touchdown” and hurried to the gymnasium. Later the oficial, Ed Thorpe Of De La Sale, explained that Buser was stopped just short of the goal line and simultaneously the timekeeper’s whistle blew, ending the game.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1929, page 8 (results column)

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  GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played Sat- urday in various parts of the Unit ed States: St. Ignatius IA; Gonzalez ‘. California 15; Southern California ‘. Willamette 25; Pacific 0. Oregon 27; University of Califor- mia at Los Angeles 0. Washington State g; Oregon State 0. Kansas Aggies 2; Missouri 6. Purdue 13; Wisconsin O. Minnesota 19; Indiana T. Carnegie Tech 19; Washington University O. Notre Dame 26: Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13; Kansas 6. Princeton 2; Chicago l5. Yale 16; Dartmouth 12. Harvard IA; Florida 0. Penn State 6; Syracuse 4. Amherst 13; Mass. Aggies o. Army 33; South Dakota 6. Ohio IA; Miami 0. Georgetown IA; New York 0. Cornell 12; Columbia 6. Northwestern T; Illinois o. Stanford 39; California Tech 0.

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Cornell leads 52–⁠36–⁠3 in 91 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.