Cornell at Columbia

Saturday, November 2, 1946

Cornell beat Columbia 12–⁠0. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 19–⁠12–⁠3.

AwayCornell5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1946
12
HomeColumbia6–⁠3 in 1946
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Cornell Tops Columbia with Second-Pe 0utburst, 12-0

    Evening star, November 3, 1946, page 35

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    Cornell Tops Columbia with Second-Pe 0utburst, 12–⁠0 NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Cornell proved too big. too strong and toe | fast for Columbia today, but only In one period did it show enough Of fensiye power to pull out q 12-to-0 victory in the 34th meeting between these Ivy League rivals. The Ithacans scored both their | touchdowns in the second quarter qne on an interception of Columbia pass and the other on 65-yard drive climaxed by pair Of forward passes. The rest of the time they showed strong enough defense to hold Columbia scoreless for the first time in Is games. to the disappointment of a Columbia Alumni Day crowd Of $1,000. The victory put Cornell in COM manding position in the race for the Ivy League championship, since the supposedly unbeatable Penn team fell by the wayside. Cornell has lost only to Army this season and was tied by Yale. Beaten Columbia’S Gene RoSSloes was one of the best backs on the field. He completed six passes for 104 yards and made several good runs. Columbia had been showed far back into its own territory in the second quarter when Jack Nork fired a pass from his 81. Lou Daukas, Cornel1s defensive center, gathered it in on the 43 and galloped to goal Soon afterward Cornell started from its IS and went to the Columbia 9 in three plays. Checked there, Cornell took to the air and Burns threw two short passes to End Matt Bolger. the second going five yards | for a follchdown

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: Big Game This Week; Army, Navy

    The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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    Big Game This Week; Army, Navy NEW YORK, Nov 4-They’ll play the usual quota of college foot ball games on the white-striped fields around the ‘ctuntry this week but to the average fan the only thing that matters will be the National Championship struggle between Army and Notre Dame. Not since the Titanic struck the iceberg has a head-on collision at traeted as much attention as this important clash bringing the na- tion’s two outstanding gridiron powers face to face at New Works Yankee Stadium on Saturday af- tenoon. These two outfits still remain unbeaten and untied-a condition shared only by UCLA and Georgia among all the major elevens in the land. Warm Up Both Of them warmed up to the battle of the year by scoring shut out victories last weekend week end in which Pennsylvania and Harvard were hauled rudely out of the all-victorious class and such once-tied team as Northwestern, North Carolina and Oregon ab- sorbed their first defeats. Metre Dame whipped Navy 28–⁠0 for it’s fifth triumph of the year. In running over Illinois, Pittsburgh. Purdue, Iowa and Navy, the Irish have piled up TIT points while holding these worthy opponents to total of Is. Army 5GJuuea a stupporn West Virginia team 19–⁠0 to run it’s three year victory string to 25 in a TOW. The Cadets have scored POS points this year against Villanova, Okla homa, Cornell, Michigan, Columbia, Duke and West Virginia, allow ing them a total of 55. Mere Than Sollout A crowd of some 80,000 will squeeze into the park that Babe Ruth’s bat built to see the seasons top attraction, and anyone calling it a sellout would be guilty of understatement. Officials say at least million tickets could be sold at S480 a copy if they had the seats. Pennsylvania, upset by Prince ton l7-l4, also plays in New York, against Columbia, which was sur- prised by Cornell 12–⁠0 Harvard, clipped by Rutgers l3–⁠0, returns to Ivy League play where it now tops the standings to invade Dart mouth. A third Ivy League clash sends Brown, 19–⁠2l loser to Holy Cross, into New Haven to test a Yale team which stopped Da.t- mouth 33–⁠2 Other Top Games Other top games in the East will have Syracuse at Cornell, Temple at Penn State, Fordham at West Virginia. Colgate at Holy Cross and Virginia at Princeton. Georgia, the Souths major pow CT, kepts it’s slate unmarred by white washing Alabama 14–⁠0, and bids for further Southeastern Con- ference honors this week at Flori- da. Tennessee, which knocked North Carolina out of the uIl-

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 81% to win. Cornell pulled the upset.

Cornell leads 52–⁠36–⁠3 in 91 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Columbia 29, Cornell 12
2024Columbia 17, Cornell 9
2023Columbia 29, Cornell 14
2022Columbia 45, Cornell 22
2021Columbia 34, Cornell 26
2019Cornell 35, Columbia 9

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