Colgate at Cornell
Saturday, September 25, 1954 Share
Colgate beat Cornell 19–14. It was their 41st meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 30–9–2.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 40°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, September 26, 1954, page 67
Read the text
Cornell Loses, 1914, In Upset by Colgate ITHACA, N. Y, Sept. 25.- Sophomore Guy Martin spanked Colgate to victory over favored Cornell here today, 1914, to take first blood for the central New York big three title. Martin, subbing for the ailing Dick Lalla, tailed one touch down and passed for another. Frank Nardulli scored the first Colgate touchdown with a one foot plunge. Martin passed to Milt Gramam for the second, and went over himself from three yards away for the third. Frank Speno made good on one Of two conversion tries. Martin missed the other. Cornell, stymied for three quarters. pushed over two quick scores in the last quarter. Bill DeGraaf passed to Cy Benson for 16 yards for one and hit Dick Jackson from the IA for the other. DeGraaf made both conversions. Colgate – z 6 O-19 Cornell ---- 0 0 14–14 COLGATE scoring: ouchdowns-Nardulli. Cornell scoring: Touchdowns, Benson. Jackson. Conversions-DeGraaf.
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 57% to win. Colgate won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Colgate–Cornell gameCornell leads 48–39–3 in 90 meetings, counting the 49 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 gameat Holy CrossOct. 2, 1954
- SeasonColgate in 1954
- ProgramColgate history and records
Cornell
- Next gameat RiceOct. 2, 1954
- SeasonCornell in 1954
- ProgramCornell history and records

