Columbia at Yale

Saturday, October 7, 1939

Yale beat Columbia 10–⁠7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 16–⁠4.

AwayColumbia2–⁠4–⁠2 in 1939
7
HomeYale3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1939
10

FinalHigh 74°F, low 48°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: kAY'5 TOE pUT5YALE INTO WIN Score Ten 10 Seven Vi(tory Over Columbia Fo0tbdIIers

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 5

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    kAY’5 TOE pUT5YALE INTO WIN Score Ten 10 Seven Vi(tory Over Columbia Fo0tbdIIers NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 9. = The talented toe of Howie Kay en- abled Yale to open the football sea- son with 10 to victory over Co., lumbia last Saturday afternoon. The game was played before 3O,- GOO.

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Football finals-Alabama State 7, Forhlaln 6 West Virginia 0-Pitt 20 Missouri 0-Ohio Stat 19 Center 6--Army 2 Columbia 7-Yale 10 Louisiana State 26-Holy Cross Carnegie Tech 6-Temple 0 Colgate 0-Duke 37 Texas 17-Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 0-Nebraska 6 Iowa State 0-Kansas 14 Georgia Tech 14-Notre Dame IT Oklahoma 23-Northwestern 0 Stanford 0-Oregon 10 Idaho 6-Oregon State 2 UCLA 14-Washington 2 Washington State eSouthern Cal 27 St. Marys 7-California 3

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)

Yale 58% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 62–⁠17–⁠2 in 81 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 24, Columbia 10
2024Columbia 13, Yale 10
2023Yale 35, Columbia 7
2022Yale 41, Columbia 16
2021Yale 37, Columbia 30
2019Yale 45, Columbia 10

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