Colgate at Columbia

Saturday, November 20, 1943

Colgate beat Columbia 41–⁠0. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 9–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayColgate5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1943
41
HomeColumbia0–⁠8 in 1943
0

FinalAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colgate Piles Up 40 Victory Over BewiIdered Columbia

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 21, 1943, page 28

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    Colgate Piles Up 40 Victory Over BewiIdered Columbia sistance and took the ball on downs on their own 2 little later, but they faded rapidly after the intermission. In the opening minutes of the third period Muehlheuser again went over from the l and later in the quarter Elving Nordmark crossed the goal from the 4, climax ing 58-yard drive. In the opening seconds of the final period Muehlheuser registered his third touchdown, going over from the 2, and in the last Is Sec onds of the final chapter Don Coates passed IS yards to Bill Lindeman in the end zone, with Everett Sante completing the days scoring with his fifth place kick In six tries.

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Columbia's Lions Bow To Colgate, Al To 0

    The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 21, 1943, page 7

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    Columbia’s Lions Bow To Colgate, Al To 0 NEW YORK. Nov. 20. - (P) - Colunbia’s battered, baffled and bAwildered Lions ended their most pathetic and futile football season today by bowling to hard-driving Colgate eleven, Al to 0. 1t was the eighth straight decisive defeat in eight starts for Lou Little’s team. The game was less than seven minutes old when Frank Muehlheuser, who scored three of Col gates touchdoWns, rammed over from the one yard line for the first score after a penalty-interrupted march of So yards. On the second pay of the second period he passed 10 yards to Dick Owen for second score.

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)

Colgate 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 15–⁠4–⁠1 in 20 meetings, counting the nine since this game.

Recent meetings
1981Colgate 41, Columbia 3
1980Colgate 35, Columbia 22
1979Colgate 24, Columbia 14
1977Colgate 48, Columbia 36
1967Columbia 17, Colgate 14
1966Colgate 38, Columbia 0

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