Yale at Columbia

Saturday, October 8, 1949

Yale beat Columbia 33–⁠7. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 20–⁠7.

AwayYale4–⁠4 in 1949
33
HomeColumbia2–⁠7 in 1949
7

FinalAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Penn Wins Over Princeton 413 Yale Outcasses Columbia Old Ellis Passing Attack Proves Too Hot for Lou LittIe's Team

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 9, 1949, page 44

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    Penn Wins Over Princeton 413 Yale Outcasses Columbia Old Ellis Passing Attack Proves Too Hot for Lou LittIe’s Team tumble in the air and Capt. Levi jackson tore 19 yards down the middle 80 seconds later. An in Perception by David Prince paved the way. Yale sorely missed it’s 1948 kick ing specialist Bill Booze, failing to convert after it’s touchdowns But Jim Fuchs atoned somewhat with 34-yard field goal In the closing seconds. Left end,,setear: carscciolO McAfee, La Left tackle-Finnegan, Emerson Vorys, DoWney. center~Potter, Carr Wooten, Gaiiaher, Right guard-Fasano, Jablonski, Bishop. R’shs Meonade end-Gant’ .euaeken0ush’ GFopp’ terback-Tisdale. Robertson. Davis. Left halt-Jackson Raines, Keller, senay. Right half-Nadherny. Lohnes, Bowers Fullback--Spears, Fuchs, Becamp, Test, Barnett. COLUMBIA. Let eft endMstrska, sad,is ). Ward, Danneman Caponegro, Wallace. Left guard-Audette, McCann, Sautter, Blessing, Scali. Center-Malone, Wagner. Schwegler, Hol- teen Right guard-Chaky, Pell, Dileo, Misho, Connell Right tackle-Federowicz Cozzi Right end-Grusman, Bomm, Mclean, OBrien. D. Hansen. Quarterba ck-Coufal, Russell, Tracy. Wanselow Vitek. Left half Ward. Kimtis, Schwartz. Right half-Toner, Wynotte. Fullback-Nork, Van Bellingham, H. Ham sen. Guarino. Yale “ 8 8 8 15–⁠33 Soiuiipld ---------- j. Yale scoring Observation-Disclosures, Robertson Setear Masters, Jackson. Field goal-Fuchs Columbia scoring: Touchdown-Van Russell.

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 68% to win. Yale pulled the upset.

Yale leads 62–⁠17–⁠2 in 81 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Yale 24, Columbia 10
2024Columbia 13, Yale 10
2023Yale 35, Columbia 7
2022Yale 41, Columbia 16
2021Yale 37, Columbia 30
2019Yale 45, Columbia 10

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