Syracuse at Columbia

Saturday, November 25, 1933

Columbia beat Syracuse 16–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 8–⁠2–⁠3.

AwaySyracuse4–⁠4 in 1933
0
HomeColumbia8–⁠1 in 1933
16

FinalAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: COLUMBIA winner ENDING BIC SEASON Montgomery Versatile Star as. Lions Trim Syracuse DecisiveIy, 100.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 26, 1933, page 1

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    COLUMBIA winner ENDING BIC SEASON Montgomery Versatile Star as. Lions Trim Syracuse DecisiveIy, 100. n YEW YORK, November 25.- M The 1888 Columbia foot / Y actin today completed one of the most successful cam paigns of Lion gridiron history as it rolled to a 16-to-0 victory over its ancient foe, Syracuse. Completely outplaying the Orange, throughout every period, the blue-andwhitehead warriors slashed over a touchdown in both the third and fourth quarters and added the other three points with a 16-yard placement goal from the field by Newt Wilder near the games end. Only one defeat, at the hands of undefeated Princeton early in the season, mars the Columbia record, while victories were scored over Cornell, Navy, Virginia Lafayette, Lehigh and Penn State. Capt Cliff Montgomery. making his Field, gave brilliant exhibition in leading his team to victory. He personally lugged over both touchdowns, did all the forward passing and punt ing, held the ball for Wilders field goal and for both the ties for point and directed the attack from his post at quarterback.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOT BALL. RESUIISz&

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 27, 1933, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOT BALL. RESUIISz& The following are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington University 6; Wash ington State IT. St. Mary’s g; University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles IA. Southern California l9; Notre Dame o. Stanford ‘; California g. Army 12; Navy 2. Syracuse 0; Columbia 16 Tufts 13; Massachusetts 0. Washington and Lee 13; Mary land 33. West Virginia IA; Georgetown 12 Illinois 6; Ohio State 2. Carnegie Tech 0; New Tor k University ‘. Rutgers 6; Princeton 26. Yale 6; Harvard 19. Purdue 19; Indiana 3. Michigan 13; Northwestern 0. Iowa 6; Nebraska 2. Washington and Jefferson 6; Bucknell 38. Auburn ‘; Florida IA. Georgia ‘; Georgia Tech 6. Dartmouth O.; Chicago 38. Wisconsin 3; Minnesota 6. Iowa State T; Drake 2. I. -.4 Baylor 13; Southern Methodist T. SeWanee 9: Tulane 26. SUNDAY GAME Olympic Club 16; University oi San Francisco g.

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 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Syracuse leads 11–⁠9–⁠4 in 24 meetings, counting the 11 since this game.

Recent meetings
1948Columbia 34, Syracuse 28
1947Columbia 28, Syracuse 8
1946Columbia 59, Syracuse 21
1945Columbia 32, Syracuse 0
1944Columbia 26, Syracuse 2
1940Syracuse 3, Columbia 0

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