Columbia at Yale
Saturday, October 1, 1938 Share
Columbia beat Yale 27–14. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 15–4.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 43°F, 0.1 in. of rainAttendance 35,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, October 4, 1938, page 14
Read the text
Flaherty Clicks AS CridirOn Seer Ray Flaherty, Redskin coach, proved himself a prognosticator as well as q successful coach over the week end when he called the turn on 10 out of 20 of the country’s major college football games for Star readers. The only one Flaherty missed in compiling his $50 percentage-but one on which he says he will catch it” if his old pupil hears about it was the instance in which he predicted that Yale had slight edge” over Columbia. Columbia, whose backfield Is coached by ex-Redskin Cliff Battles, won, 27–14.
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.
On the newsreel
- GRIDIRON THRILLS OF THE WEEKIn the East, 35,000 see Sid Luckman, Columbia ace, lead his team to a thrilling 27-14 triumph over Yale
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)
Yale 71% to win. Columbia pulled the upset.
The series
Every Columbia–Yale gameYale leads 62–17–2 in 81 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
| 2025 | Yale 24, Columbia 10 | |
| 2024 | Columbia 13, Yale 10 | |
| 2023 | Yale 35, Columbia 7 | |
| 2022 | Yale 41, Columbia 16 | |
| 2021 | Yale 37, Columbia 30 | |
| 2019 | Yale 45, Columbia 10 |
Around this game
Columbia
- Next gameat ArmyOct. 8, 1938
- SeasonColumbia in 1938
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Yale
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 8, 1938
- SeasonYale in 1938
- ProgramYale history and records