Columbia at Yale

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  Evening star, October 13, 1946, page 35

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  Columbia, Seemingly |0ufcIassed, Finally Whips Yale, 1910 4 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. Il Hopelessly outclassed in the frst half, lighting bunch OF Columbia footballers emerged from the fog and rain today to tally all Its points In the final two quarters and lick Yale, % to 70, after = spectacular battle before postwar record bowl crowd of 81, 900. Actually 1t was two different ball games. The Els roared Oh TO q 14-to-O lead In first half and DOM mated the play so completely IT. appeared as though the Lions would be foolish to come out for resun1pton Of play. But. as 1t turned out, maybe the Yales should have remanned In their dressing room. In tossing Yale for It’s first loss of the campaign, 1t was case OF history repeating itself for the second consecutive Saturday for unbeaten Columbia. Last week. the Lions came from behind almost the same way to beat Navy. Capitalizing on two fumbles, one Just before the scoreless first period ended, Yale tailed twice in the second period with the Blues ebony, express, Levi Jackson. setting them up. Ferd Nadherny registered both of them. the opener from the one yard mark on the initial play, and the other from the eight. Little Bill Booze automatically place-kicked the extra points. Returns Kickoff 81 Yards. Then, starting slowly, with Gene Rossidess and Bill Swiacki teaming neatly, Columbia broke into the scoring column, Swiacki dragging two Yale tackles into the zone after catching Genes long toss on the eight. A sensational 84-yard return of kickon by jackson, the feature play OF the afternoon 20 far rs the rain soaked crowd was concerned, tenn porarily interrupted the Lions. Big, 195-pound jackson fumbled the ball momentarily. moved slowly after the retrieve, and then picked up steam. shaking on at least five Columbia defenders as he resumed to score The roar Of the crowd hardly had subsidized before Columbia was OH once more. The Lions, aided by q few Yale penalties. drove So yards for the third touchdown Of the pc Rod, Jack Nork going over from the o. Joe Karas converted from place ment and the Ellis led, 20 to 13. with every indication that 1t was anybody,s contest. With the final session less than minutes old, and Lou Kusserow and Don Kasprzak finding holes in Yale’s hefty line, and shortcomings in the secondary, Swiacki finally went over for his second score from the 10 where he had shared q Kusserow aerial. Karas missed the chance to tie the score when his placement went low. Columbia Catches on Fire. But Columbia was afire. Moments later Ventan YablonSki, injured last week, scampered from the bench to boot q field goal from the s1S-yardline, seven yards beyond where the New Yorkers had taken possession Of . blocked punt. Yale, fighting desperately to over come the deficit. virtually gave Co Mmbia the final score. With the ball in the shadow of ELS goal posts, Adam Rakowski, Lions end, literally snatched the ball from the hands Of Tex Furse, Blues quarterback, and fell into the end zone. Yablonski missed the extra-point try, but 1t didn’t matter by then.

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 14, 1946, page 10

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  Columbia Won Great Grid Game As the feller says, you wouldn’t bet counterfeit money on Colum- bias chances of defeating Yale Sat- urday before 65,O00 in the bowl in the middle of the third quarter; but Lou Little’s lads were 28–⁠20 winners when the last whistle was blown. The game had everything imagin- able; such as Levi Jacksons 82 yard run for a touchdown after fumbling Q kickoff; savage line play on the part of Yale in the first half that stopped the speedy Columbia backs Rossides, Kusserow and KaSpryzak before they could get under way. Rossides, in particular, was as fast as a bullet, but a big line couldn’t shake him loose for more than few yards at a time; while Jackson, and Ferd Nadherny were really making merry, with such great help up front. What happened to Yale in the second half may never be known, movies to the contrary; but the fact remains that Columbia start ing passing attack (mostly Kas- pryzak to Siwacki) that was so ef- fective, the Lions quickly came from the short end of 20–⁠6 score in the third quarter to 22–⁠20 lead; then added the easiest kind of fourth quarter touchdown, when Tex Purse attempted to pass near the Yale goal line; as the Lion forward wall roared in on him and the ball was plucked off his shoulder by an alert Little lineman. As for Jackson, the New Haven colored boy-he gave a grand ex- hibition on rainy day; setting three touchdowns; one of them his 82 yard run after tumble while T Columbia players hit him on the way to the goal, but could not bring him down. He is one of the hardest college football players to bring down that I have ever seen. Colored sportswriters from the Pittsburgh Courier and Amster- dam News (N. Y) covered the game from the Jackson angle, and they really had something to write Aholrt: for the modest, soft-Spok- en colored boy is even better than his press clips, which have been almost on the Super-man side. As for the game, with Yale leading 14-O at half time, and 2O-6 an the third quarter; it was a keen reminder to many veteran pressbox squatters of the greatest football game ever played Gin my uuinion) that never-to-be-forgot- Aeu 83–⁠33 Yale-Dartmouth tie game in 1881; with Yale 6-l0 leader at half time.

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Yale leads 62–⁠17–⁠2 in 81 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.