Columbia at Cornell
Saturday, October 29, 1955 Share
Cornell beat Columbia 34–19. It was their 43rd meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 25–15–3.
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In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 30, 1955, page 65
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Robertson Hot as Cornell Defeats Columbia, 34-lo half. but he nit Alex Giampietro for an eieht-yard touchdown In the third period. After Boland’s score with the kickoff, Benhana kept pitching. on the 1irst play OF the final quarter. he faxed 3 pass and scored from two yards out. Later he pitched q 2T-yard touchdown pass to Art Wilson. Cornell,s fourth-quarter scores came on q 22-yard pass from IBill DeGraaf to End Bob Blake and q safety when Benham’s kick was blocked By End Chuck knight. cornell s..0 D 13 o 9--N4 Columbia sccring--T TouehdcWns Oh. ismnletfO z (8, pass from Benham: 2 ketpJ. Wilson f27, pass from benhaml Conversion. Altman. / CofneU seoring- JTouchdowns HobeF’ ison s tA0. run; II, line buck; 3. pass. run from Boiandl; BolAnd tee. runbael lof kickoff; Blake t22, pass-run IRON lDegraaD. Conversions: peofeM SAFETY Henham tKnight blocked kici tinto end 1one).
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 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Columbia–Cornell gameCornell leads 52–36–3 in 91 meetings, counting the 48 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
Columbia
- Next gamevs. DartmouthNov. 5, 1955
- SeasonColumbia in 1955
- ProgramColumbia history and records
Cornell
- Next gameat BrownNov. 5, 1955
- SeasonCornell in 1955
- ProgramCornell history and records

