Cornell at Columbia
Saturday, November 4, 1950 Share
Columbia beat Cornell 20–19. It was their 38th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 21–14–3.
Final
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 6, 1950, page 20 (results column)
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Saturdays Grid Stars Dy Hus SssoNt6tSo Esess AL WARD, right end-Converted in last period to give Columbia 20–19 upset victory over Cornell. FRED MAJOR, quarterback Tossed 6-yard scoring pass to Tony Klimek to lead Illinois to TO victory over Michigan and fan Rose Bowl hopes. BOBBY WILLIAMS, quarterback --Chucked two touchdown passes and punted brilliantly to spark Notre Dame to uphill 1910 victory over game Navy. BEN TOMPKINS, quarterback Threw one touchdown pass, figured in two others and made three conversions as Texas up set previously unbeaten and untied Southern Methodist. GENE FILIPSKI, left halfback- Scampered 20 and 73 yards for touchdowns as Army kept its perfect record intact by down. ing Penn 1918. JOHN COATTA, quarterback Completed 13 out of “a passes. including a touchdown heave, to lead Wisconsin to q 1877 victory over Purdue. RAY VOHDEN and JIM MONA HAN, left halfbacks-Teamed up on an 81-yard pass play in the last quarter to enable Rutgers to come from behind and shade Brown, 1912. CLAUDE ARNOLD. quarterback, and BILLY VESSELS, left half back-Scored two touchdowns each as Oklahoma downed stub born Colorado. 27–18, for 27th straight victory. HAROLD PAYNE, left halfback- Scored both touchdowns on short plunges as Tennessee nipped North Carolina. 1870. BOBBY REYNOLDS, left half back-Scored % points on three touchdowns and four conversions to lead Nebraska to 40–34 victory over Missouri. JESSE RICHARDSON, guard Intercepted pass in final min ute and set up winning touch down in Alabama’s 14–7 decision over Georgia. BILLY cox, tailback-Ran and passed Duke to 1921 victory over Georgia Tech. He amassed 277 yards rushing and passing, completing IL of % passes. TITUS PLOMARITUS. back Booted last-period field goal to enable Boston U. to edge William and Mary, 1914. EDDIE TALBOOM, back-Scored one touchdown, helped set up another and converted twice to lead unbeaten wyoming to 14–7 victory over Idaho. GARY KERKORIAN, quarterback Converted IN the dying min utes to enable Stanford to Tie Southern California. TT. TED NARLESKI, tailback-Ran and passed UCLA to 20–13 vic tory over Oregon State to keep Bruins in the running for the Rose Bowl. LES RICHTER, right guard, and PETE SCHABARUM, right half back-Richter pestered DON HEINRICH, passing ace, and converted twice and Schabarum scored twice as unbeaten Cali ! fornia beat Washington, 14–7.
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 72% to win. Columbia pulled the upset.
The series
Every Cornell–Columbia gameCornell leads 52–36–3 in 91 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.
| 2025 | Columbia 29, Cornell 12 | |
| 2024 | Columbia 17, Cornell 9 | |
| 2023 | Columbia 29, Cornell 14 | |
| 2022 | Columbia 45, Cornell 22 | |
| 2021 | Columbia 34, Cornell 26 | |
| 2019 | Cornell 35, Columbia 9 |
Around this game
Cornell
- Next gamevs. ColgateNov. 11, 1950
- SeasonCornell in 1950
- ProgramCornell history and records
Columbia
- Next gameat DartmouthNov. 11, 1950
- SeasonColumbia in 1950
- ProgramColumbia history and records

