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Lafayette at Columbia

Saturday, September 29, 1945

Columbia beat Lafayette 40–⁠14. It was their third meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 2–⁠0–⁠1.

AwayLafayette1–⁠7–⁠1 in 1945
14
HomeColumbia8–⁠1 in 1945
40

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Columbia S 1945 Model Is Better

    Detroit evening times, September 30, 1945, page 12

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    Columbia S 1945 Model Is Better NEW YORK, Sept % GNS)- Columbia’s much improved 1945 football team scored a decisive 40–⁠14 victory over Lafayette today in its first game Of the season. The thrill was provided by Gene Columbia’s star tailback, who ran back the second half kickoff “a yards for a touchdown.

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 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

The series

Every Lafayette–Columbia game

Lafayette leads 16–⁠11–⁠1 in 28 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Columbia 40, Lafayette 34
2025Lafayette 38, Columbia 14
2024Columbia 31, Lafayette 20
2023Lafayette 24, Columbia 3
2010Columbia 42, Lafayette 28
2009Lafayette 24, Columbia 21

Around this game

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