Army at Columbia
Saturday, October 17, 1942 Share
No. 18 Army beat Columbia 34–6. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Army led the series 4–3–2.
Final
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Army–Columbia gameArmy leads 14–4–3 in 21 meetings, counting the 12 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 HarvardOct. 24, 1942
- SeasonArmy in 1942
- ProgramArmy history and records
Columbia
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 24, 1942
- SeasonColumbia in 1942
- ProgramColumbia history and records

