Columbia at Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 20, 1900

Pennsylvania beat Columbia 30–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Pennsylvania led the series 5–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayColumbia7–⁠3–⁠1 in 1900
0
HomePennsylvania12–⁠1 in 1900
30

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Salt Lake herald's story: U. OF P, SO; COLUMBIA, o. Old Penn Swamps Her Opponents In Two Fast Halves.

    The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 21, 1900, page 8

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    U. OF P, SO; COLUMBIA, o. Old Penn Swamps Her Opponents In Two Fast Halves. Philadelphia Oct 20.-The University OF PENNSYLVANIA swamped the Coiumpia football team on Franklin fieid tnIs az ternOou by a score of 30 to 0, in the pres ence Of 1910 spectators. There never was a Eaofsfent during the twenty-five minute halves when Columbia had q chance OF crossing the red and blue goa line. Only three times in the entire game did the blue and white boys gain tneil distance on downs and but once We’re they able TO stop the QuakerS. The Pennsylvania scored Is in the hrs half and l. in the second. she mas mol played a better game this season. TouchdOwns: HorneT. Hare, o NC Crack N. Goals from touchdo.vn: Hare. .

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)

Pennsylvania 77% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Pennsylvania leads 61–⁠22–⁠1 in 84 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Columbia 28, Pennsylvania 27
2025Pennsylvania 35, Columbia 21
2024Columbia 23, Pennsylvania 17
2023Pennsylvania 20, Columbia 17
2022Pennsylvania 34, Columbia 14
2021Columbia 23, Pennsylvania 14

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