Columbia at Yale
Saturday, October 7, 1939 Share
Yale beat Columbia 10–7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 16–4.
FinalHigh 74°F, low 48°F
In the newspapers

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 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.
The series
Every Columbia–Yale gameYale leads 62–17–2 in 81 meetings, counting the 61 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 gamevs. ArmyOct. 14, 1939
- SeasonColumbia in 1939
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Yale
- Next gamevs. PennsylvaniaOct. 14, 1939
- SeasonYale in 1939
- ProgramYale history and records

