Colgate at Cornell
Saturday, October 1, 1949 Share
Cornell beat Colgate 39–27. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 27–7–2.
FinalHigh 66°F, low 42°FAttendance 20,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 2, 1949, page 37
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Biq Red Powers Way To. 39–27 Triumph lover Title Rival ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 1-Cornell University’s Big Red eleven pow cred its way to 1927 victory over Colgate today to take first blood in the round robin series for mythical honors Of central New York’s Big Three. Both teams play Syracuse. the other Big Three member. later in the season. Cornell won the hon. ors of Central New York’s Big Three the last two years. Cornell marched Sc yards for the first touchdown after taking the opening kickoff. with Frank CMoose) Miller crashing over from 3 yards out. Miller scored again in the fourth period on a 17-yard run around left end. Walt Bruska and Fullback jeff Fleischmann added two more scores In the Sec ond period. Bruska took a pass from Pete Dorset and raced II yards to score. Fleischmann, who only this week rejoined the squad after withdrawing earlier, bulled over from the one to end drive. Hillary Chollet and Hal Seidenberg continued the Cornell scoring in the third quarter. Chollet took a lateral from Bernie Babula and scampered % yards. Hal |Seidenberg galloped through the whole Red Raider team for so yards. Colgate, outfought by Cornell’s hard-charging line. took to the air in the second period. Tom Kelley hit Alan Egler with a pass good for Al yards. Egler tailed, again in the third quarter on an 18-yard scamper around left end. The Red Raiders continued to fight and added two touchdowns in the fourth period. French Al laire plunged over from five yards Immediately after the change of goals. Chuck Stratton passed to Karl Kuckhorn for IA yards for the final tally. CORNELL. Left end-Bruska, Pujo., Sampson. Lett suard-Eiiis. “ pisrande’ Kramer n’ ‘‘‘‘ center@PieriE. Smith. Gaise. ~ “ Right Right guar,d-Jaso;, aL, Iaylor: Hage%nausr. % ouarterback-Dorset. Gargan, Chollet. Left haiiLchollet., Bradley. Kirk. FifRs haMsr Hull sefdsnbers Rss1s Haley COLGATE. Left nd-Fassnacht. stenbers. swarthout, Left tacEleEwenden, Abeltin. Left guard-Langan, ,Roemer. cizer. Center-Davis, Mccall, Gall. Right guard-stankevich, vetrano, Halter. Risht saekle-Krisher. Right end-Wylie. Gable. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Kelley. stratton. Left n, hslieaek-Mullisan’ as Piebes’ Roberts, Right halfback-Esler, Baumann, King. Roberts. Smith Fullback-Dunlap, Allaire. co’gsii coTneli ----- g 1s l$ ,3-ssaa Cornell Scoring Touchdowns Miller go. Bruska. 1Fleischmann, chollet’ seidenberg. Colgate scoring: Touchdowns-Egler Cd, Points after touchdown-smith t3>.

The Daily Alaska empire, October 3, 1949, page 6 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES Here are final scores of leading football games played during tht weekend: Notre Dame 27. Washington 2. < Valparaiso 32, Indiana State O. North. Illinois 27, Omaha U. 8. Indiana Teachers IA, Mansfield Teachers 0. New Hampshire 23, Rhode Islano 20. Tuskegee IA, Clark College O. California Al, Oregon State 0. Idaho State 28, Colorado Col. 6 Memphis State 34, Washington (St Louis) 0. Whitworth 27, Whitman ‘. Oberlin 45, Kenyon T. Carnegie Tech fl, Bethany 6. Kentucky AT, Mississippi 0. Va. State 20, Bluefield State 2. Massachusetts 54, Norwich 0. Texas A. and M. 13, Oklahoma 33. Carleton 19, Grinnell 6. Butler IA, Wabash 2. TCU T, Arkansas 27. Miami 18, Virginia 21. Florida 40, Tulsa 2. Bowling Green 20, Michigan Gen. tral 0. Gettysburg 21, Western Mary land O. Johns Hopkins IA, Franklin and Marshall 13. Pittsburgh Is, Northwestern 2. Colorado 13. Kansas State 27. West Virginia 28, Washington ana Lee 20. Miami IS, Virginia 21. Baylor IA, Mississippi State 6. Tufts 2, Northwestern 6. Geneva 13, Washington and Jef- ferson 6. Washington College IA, Swarth- more IA, tie. Minnesota 26, Nebraska 6. Duke 21, Tennessee 2. Georgia IA, North Carolina 2l. Iowa State 19, Kansas 6. Wisconsin 13, Illinois 13. tie. Rutgers T, Temple 14 VPI 13, William and Mary 39. Colgate 27. Cornell 39. Idaho T, Texas 56. Holy Cross 6, Brown 28. Georgia Tech o, Tulane 16. Iowa 21, Purdue T. Alabama 2, Vanderbilt IA. Navy 28, Princeton 2. Columbia IA, Harvard ‘. Michigan State 48, Marquette ‘. Ohio State 46, Indiana T. Army 42, Penn State ‘. Montana IS, Utah State 13. Portland 40, Montana State 0. Michigan 27, Stanford 2. Willamette T, Chico State 0. Eastern Washington 13, Western 6. College of Idaho 20, Lewis and Clark 12. Southern Oregon 27, Humboldt State 13. Oregon College of Education 27. IA. Southern Methodist 27, Missouri 27. Oklahoma ARM 48, Denver 2. College Pacific 34, Cincinnati ‘. Santa Clara 53, Fresno State 0. Oregon Tech IA, Eastern Ore gon 6. North Dakota 2, South Dakota (tie) Texas Tech 35, West Texas 19. Wyoming 8, Colorado A&M 0. San Jose 40, Brigham Young 2l.
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)
Cornell 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colgate–Cornell gameCornell leads 48–39–3 in 90 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.
| 2026 | Colgate 20, Cornell 7 | |
| 2025 | Colgate 41, Cornell 21 | |
| 2024 | Colgate 41, Cornell 24 | |
| 2023 | Colgate 35, Cornell 25 | |
| 2022 | Cornell 34, Colgate 31 | |
| 2021 | Cornell 34, Colgate 20 |
Around this game
Colgate
- Next gamevs. Boston UniversityOct. 8, 1949
- SeasonColgate in 1949
- ProgramColgate history and records
Cornell
- Next gameat HarvardOct. 8, 1949
- SeasonCornell in 1949
- ProgramCornell history and records

