Virginia at Columbia
Saturday, November 7, 1931 Share
Columbia beat Virginia 27–0. It was their first meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 1–0.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1931, page 65
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VIRGINIA SMOTHERED BY COLUMBIA eleven Attack of New Workers. Proves Too Much for Cavaliers in 27-to-0 Game. NEW YORK, November 7.--Columbia University achieved a 27–0 victory over the University of Virginia today, the first time in several years that a Columbia foot ball team has vanquished two major foes in single season. Three weeks ago today the Blue Shirts look Dartmouth to 19-to-6 trimming and recovered in grand style today from thelr defeat by Cornell, IS to 0, last Saturday to outplay completely the squad from the Old Dominion. Capt Ralph Hewitt, Cliff Montgomcry, sensational sophomore ball car r1er, and Ed Hall led a versatile Column bia attack which had the Cavaliers going the wrong direction all afternoon.
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The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1931, page 5 (results column)
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FOOTBALL ]! 4’13J1lE1| The following are scores of the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon in various sec tions of the country: Louisiana 0; Army 20. Georgia T; New York University 6. Indiana O.; Michigan g. Virginia 0; Columbia 27. Lehigh l9; Princeton T. Villanova T; Temple 13 Dartmouth 6; Harvard ‘. Navy 0; Ohio State 2. Carnegie Tech 6; Pittsburgh A.. Nebraska 2; Iowa 0. Pennsylvania 0; Notre Dame 49. st. Johns GMaryland) o; Yale 52. Ohio 27; DePauw 0. Iowa State ‘; Kansas Aggie5 6. Arkansas 13; Chicago 13. Wisconsin T; Illinois 6. Kansas 0; Oklahoma 10. Utah 28; Colorado College 6. Idaho 8; Washington State 9. University of Washington 0; Cal ifornia 13. Montana 0; Oregon State 13. Stanford 0; Southern California 19. Swarthmore 0; Delaware 26. Ripon O; Michigan 100. Alfred 0; Cornell 54. Detroit g.; Fordham 30. Bucknell T; Georgetown 0. Washington and Jefferson G.; Marquette 13. Duke 2; Kentucky 0. Centenary 6; Purdue 49. Northwestern 32; Minnesota 14.
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 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Virginia–Columbia gameColumbia leads 4–0 in four meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1938 | Columbia 39, Virginia 0 | |
| 1933 | Columbia 15, Virginia 6 | |
| 1932 | Columbia 22, Virginia 6 | |
| 1931 | Columbia 27, Virginia 0 |
Around this game
Virginia
- Next gamevs. Virginia TechNov. 14, 1931
- SeasonVirginia in 1931
- ProgramVirginia history and records
Columbia
- Next gameat BrownNov. 14, 1931
- SeasonColumbia in 1931
- ProgramColumbia history and records

