Columbia at Navy
Saturday, November 6, 1937 Share
Navy beat Columbia 13–6. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 5–3.
FinalHigh 48°F, low 44°FAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 8, 1937, page 3 (results column)
Read the text
FOOT BAIL @ lA{5SW{5 IFS Nl The following are final scores oi principal football games played las Saturday afternoon: Kansas 13; Nebraska 13, tie. Minnesota 35; Iowa 10. Stanford 2; Southern California 6 University of Washington 0; Cali fornia 0. Washington State 6; Oregon 10. Washington State Freshmen O. University of Washington Freshmen 13. Brown o; Yale 19 Alabama 9; Tulane 6. Gonzaga O; Montana 23. Willamette O; Oregon State 20. Duquesne 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Chicago 12; Michigan 13. Purdue 3; Fordham 21. Dartmouth 33; Princeton 9 Penn State T; Penn 0. Michigan State 13; Temple 0. Army ‘; Harvard 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern o. p Pittsburgh 21; Notre Dame 6. Navy 13; Columbia 6.
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.
On the newsreel
- NAVY DOWNS COLUMBIA, 13-6A battling Middie eleven turns the tables on Columbia in a hard-fought football encounter, giving Lou Little’s charges another beating, and winning on an intercepted pass by the score of 13 to 6
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Navy 65% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Columbia–Navy gameNavy leads 13–9–1 in 23 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.
| 1955 | Navy 47, Columbia 0 | |
| 1954 | Navy 51, Columbia 6 | |
| 1953 | Navy 14, Columbia 6 | |
| 1952 | Navy 28, Columbia 0 | |
| 1951 | Navy 21, Columbia 7 | |
| 1950 | Navy 29, Columbia 7 |
Around this game
Columbia
- Next gamevs. SyracuseNov. 13, 1937
- SeasonColumbia in 1937
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Navy
- Next gameat PrincetonNov. 20, 1937
- SeasonNavy in 1937
- ProgramNavy history and records