Army at Columbia

Saturday, October 17, 1942

No. 18 Army beat Columbia 34–⁠6. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Army led the series 4–⁠3–⁠2.

Away18Army6–⁠3 in 1942
34
HomeColumbia3–⁠6 in 1942
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Seohowks Lose To Notre Dame; MARYLAND Beaten

    Evening star, October 18, 1942, page 1 (results column)

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    Seohowks Lose To Notre Dame; MARYLAND Beaten High light of yesterdays football was the $50 defeat inflicted !! or Bernie Bierman’s Iowa Seahawks by a Notre Dame team which earlier had been beaten once and tied once 1t was the first defeat for a Bierman team in 81 games. Another Navy Pre- Flight eleven’s undefeated rec. ord was spoiled wnen Boston Collegs nosed out Jimmy Crowley’s North Carolina Cadets, 7–⁠6. In this section, Georgetown tied Auburn. 6–⁠6, last night at Grifiith Stadium; Maryland lost to v. NJ. 900. at Lexington. and Navy downed Yale, 1876, at Baltimore. Other outstanding results wera Dukes $40 rout Of Colgate, North Carolina’s 1896 win over Duquesne Alabama’s so decision over Ten. nessee, illinois, LAT win over Iowa Wisconsins 13-T defeat Of Great Lakes, Ohio States 26–⁠0 rout Of Purdue and Army’s 34–⁠6 defeat oi Columbia. At Laurel, Alquest easily defeated vincentive In the Spalding Love Jenkins Handicap, while Thumbs Up won the Maryland Handicap with vagrancy fourth. Boysy won the Continental Handicap at Ja. maica after Riverland was dis qualified. (Details in Spsrts oectien.l

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)

Columbia 52% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.

Army leads 14–⁠4–⁠3 in 21 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.

Recent meetings
1982Army 41, Columbia 8
1956Army 60, Columbia 0
1955Army 45, Columbia 0
1954Army 67, Columbia 12
1953Army 40, Columbia 7
1952Army 14, Columbia 14

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