Columbia at Navy
Saturday, November 11, 1939 Share
Columbia beat Navy 19–13. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 6–4.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 44°FAttendance 17,300
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, November 13, 1939, page 1 (results column)
Read the text
Football Scores November Il Washington 13-California 6 Oregon State 19-Oregon IA Santa Clara 6-Michigan State Washington State Freshmen - 6-Washington Frosh 12 Washington State 2l-Idaho l3 Southern California 33-Stan- ford 0 Fresno State 27 Portland U 13 Utah 34-Hawaii 19 Army 0-Harvard 15 Missouri 20-New York U ‘ Pitt 6-Carnegie Tech 0 Duquesne Worth Carolina State 0 Columbia 19--Navy 13 Dartmouth 7-Princeton 9 Minnesota 20-Michigan ‘ Colgate 12-Cornell IA North Carolina 3z-Davidson 0 Notre Dame 6-Iowa Kentucky 6-Georgie Tech 13 Duke 20-V MY Tulane 13-Alabama 0
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)
Navy 64% to win. Columbia won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Columbia–Navy gameNavy leads 13–9–1 in 23 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.
| 1955 | Navy 47, Columbia 0 | |
| 1954 | Navy 51, Columbia 6 | |
| 1953 | Navy 14, Columbia 6 | |
| 1952 | Navy 28, Columbia 0 | |
| 1951 | Navy 21, Columbia 7 | |
| 1950 | Navy 29, Columbia 7 |
Around this game
Columbia
- Next gamevs. TulaneNov. 18, 1939
- SeasonColumbia in 1939
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Navy
- Next gameat PrincetonNov. 25, 1939
- SeasonNavy in 1939
- ProgramNavy history and records