Columbia at Cornell

Saturday, October 31, 1931

Cornell beat Columbia 13–⁠0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 12–⁠5–⁠2.

AwayColumbia7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1931
0
HomeCornell7–⁠1 in 1931
13

FinalHigh 50°F, low 39°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington times's story

    The Washington times, District of Columbia, November 2, 1931, page 22 (results column)

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    Utah is second with ZU1 polnCS scored, Pittsburgh third with 200 and New York University next with 1879. Syracuse has 1913 and Army is next with 1913. Davis. and Elkins, Syracuse, Massachusetts, State, Harvard, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are the united and un’ beaten teams in the East. Cornell continued its campaign of victory by sending back Co lumbia, 13 to 0. Syracuse beat Michigan State. Is to 10, and Harvard defeated Virginia, l9 to 0. Penn just managed to flash a 3-tO-O win over Lafayette, while Massachusetts, State ~Ot past Amherst, 13 to IL. Davis and Elkins won from Georgia State, 80 to 0, and Johns Hop kins punished HaverfOrd, 10 to 0. Louis Bush, the Massachusetts, State back, kept his lead by scor” ing two touchdowns against Am herst on Saturday and now has a total of 96 points. Bob Garbark, of Allegheny, is second with 78 points and Muir ply, of Fordham, third with So. Moran, of Syracuse, ranks next in a tie with Mccall, of Dartmouth, each having 66. Lobove, Drexel, has 63- points; Hewitt, Columbia, so, and GroSsman, Rutgers, SIS. Orv Mohler, slippery Southern California quarterback, was still the leading point scorer today in the Pacific Coast Conference despite the fact that the Trojans had no game scheduled for last Saturday. The leading scorers follow: Mohler Southern California. AZ Shaver, Southern California, 80; HeSd, DALEY Montana, 80; Biancone, Oregon state, “a; Franklin Washington, “a. The following players each have scored 1S points: Davis, Washing ton halfback; Rotenberg, oregon halfback: Caddel, Stanford full back: Bledsoe, Washington half back; Adams. Oregon State half back: Marlowe, Washington full back; Wolcott, Washington half back: Gee, Oregon, halfback; Colvin. Stanford end; Little, Ore gon State fullback. Following is the standing Of football teams in the Pacific Coast Conference:

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)

Cornell 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Cornell leads 52–⁠36–⁠3 in 91 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Columbia 29, Cornell 12
2024Columbia 17, Cornell 9
2023Columbia 29, Cornell 14
2022Columbia 45, Cornell 22
2021Columbia 34, Cornell 26
2019Cornell 35, Columbia 9

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