Yale at Columbia
Saturday, October 8, 1949 Share
Yale beat Columbia 33–7. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Yale led the series 20–7.
FinalAttendance 30,000
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Yale–Columbia gameYale leads 62–17–2 in 81 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.
| 2025 | Yale 24, Columbia 10 | |
| 2024 | Columbia 13, Yale 10 | |
| 2023 | Yale 35, Columbia 7 | |
| 2022 | Yale 41, Columbia 16 | |
| 2021 | Yale 37, Columbia 30 | |
| 2019 | Yale 45, Columbia 10 |
Around this game
Yale
- Next gamevs. CornellOct. 15, 1949
- SeasonYale in 1949
- ProgramYale history and records
Columbia
- Next gameat PennsylvaniaOct. 15, 1949
- SeasonColumbia in 1949
- ProgramColumbia history and records

