Colgate at Cornell

Saturday, September 25, 1954

Colgate beat Cornell 19–⁠14. It was their 41st meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 30–⁠9–⁠2.

AwayColgate5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1954
19
HomeCornell5–⁠4 in 1954
14

FinalHigh 63°F, low 40°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Cornell Loses, 1914, In Upset by Colgate

    Evening star, District of Columbia, September 26, 1954, page 67

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    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.

Cornell leads 48–⁠39–⁠3 in 90 meetings, counting the 49 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Colgate 20, Cornell 7
2025Colgate 41, Cornell 21
2024Colgate 41, Cornell 24
2023Colgate 35, Cornell 25
2022Cornell 34, Colgate 31
2021Cornell 34, Colgate 20

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