Columbia at Cornell
Saturday, November 4, 1939 Share
No. 3 Cornell beat Columbia 13–7. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 15–9–3.
FinalHigh 50°F, low 21°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, November 6, 1939, page 3 (results column)
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Football Scores November 4 Iowa 4-Purdue o Texas Aggies 21-Arkansas 0 Duke 7-Georgia Tech 6 Nebraska 13-MisSouri 27 Northwestern 14-MinneSota 2 Kentucky 7-Alabama ‘, tie Michigan 7-Illinois 16 Tennessee 20-Louisian State c Washington 9-Montana 0 Idaho 19-Utah State ? Oregon 38-Washington State 0 Southern California 19- Ore gen State 2 Santa Clara 27-Stanford ‘ UCLA 20-California Notre Dame 14-Army 0 Rice 7-Fordham 13 Navy 6-Penn 13 Harvard 6-Princeton 9 Columbia 7-Cornell 13 Pitt 13-Temple 7 Indiana 0-Ohio Etate 27 St. Marys 6-Dayton Univer- sity 6 San Francisco University IA Loyalo Los Angeles ‘ Texas Christian 0-Baylor 27
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)
Cornell 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Columbia–Cornell gameCornell leads 52–36–3 in 91 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.
| 2025 | Columbia 29, Cornell 12 | |
| 2024 | Columbia 17, Cornell 9 | |
| 2023 | Columbia 29, Cornell 14 | |
| 2022 | Columbia 45, Cornell 22 | |
| 2021 | Columbia 34, Cornell 26 | |
| 2019 | Cornell 35, Columbia 9 |
Around this game
Columbia
- Next gameat NavyNov. 11, 1939
- SeasonColumbia in 1939
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Cornell
- Next gamevs. ColgateNov. 11, 1939
- SeasonCornell in 1939
- ProgramCornell history and records