Army at Columbia
Saturday, October 14, 1939 Share
Army and Columbia tied 6–6. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 3–2–2.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 47°FAttendance 27,000
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 16, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores Oct. IA Duke Thirteen-Pitt 14 Cornell 20-Princeton 2 Penn 6-Yale 0 Army 6-Columbia 6 Tie Dartmouth 0-Navy 0 Tie Northwestern 0-Ohio State 13 Texas Christian 1l-Temple 13 Fordham 0-Tulane 2 Nebraska 10-IoWa State 2 Purdue 13-Minesota 13 Tie Southern Methodist 19-- Notre Dame 20 Harvard 61-Chicago 0 Oregon 6-California0 Washington 0-Wash. State 6 UCLA 14-Stanford IA Tie Oregon State 14-U of Portland 12 Illinois 0-Southern Cal 26
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)
Army 61% to win.
The series
Every Army–Columbia gameArmy leads 14–4–3 in 21 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.
| 1982 | Army 41, Columbia 8 | |
| 1956 | Army 60, Columbia 0 | |
| 1955 | Army 45, Columbia 0 | |
| 1954 | Army 67, Columbia 12 | |
| 1953 | Army 40, Columbia 7 | |
| 1952 | Army 14, Columbia 14 |
Around this game
Army
- Next gameat YaleOct. 21, 1939
- SeasonArmy in 1939
- ProgramArmy history and records
Columbia
- Next gamevs. PrincetonOct. 21, 1939
- SeasonColumbia in 1939
- ProgramColumbia history and records

