Lehigh at Columbia

Saturday, October 26, 1957

Lehigh beat Columbia 40–⁠6. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 3–⁠2.

AwayLehigh2–⁠1 in 1957
40
HomeColumbia1–⁠8 in 1957
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: .Lehioh Rips Columbia by 400 Margin

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1957, page 1

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    .Lehioh Rips Columbia by 400 Margin NEW YORK, Oct. Is ~ Dan Nolan passed. plunged and piloted indicated Lehigh to q 40–⁠6 victory over Columbia today. Lehigh. rated as q minor school BY the NCAA. performed like . major power In running up It’s NTH victory Of the season and its ninth In o row before q Columbia Homecoming crowd OF $4,000. Only penalties saved Column bla from a worse fate. One Of these nuilified Nolan’s 53-yard return Of q punt for q touch down. On another occasion in the second quarter, Lehigh al most scored on q march down the field, during which they suffered so yards in penalties Lehigh went TO work with the opening kickoff. marching 81 yards with Nolan taking II over from the 8. Nolan had q direct hand In four Of the six Lehigh touch. downs. He scored two Of thest on plunges and passed for two 10 Dave Nevil for 20 yards and to Joe Wenzel for Is. Columbia scored in the lasi minute and q half Of play wher Fred johnson passed ~ yards to Lawrence Anderson – the only bright spot IN a disms, day for the home team. dcsefIa1sHab,. --------lS IL – o a.. Lehigh SCORING; Tcuchdowns-NolaI t2D g.. plunge: y. plungel: Pennel 81. end runl; Neyil t2e. pass-rur from Nolan; WenRel i26. pass-ruI from Nolan. Burger “a, plunsel. Con versions--Koxiol ca: MaeClymont ca Columbia scoring: Touchdown = Anderson az. pass-run from John aoEl.

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 73% to win. Lehigh pulled the upset.

Lehigh leads 6–⁠5 in 11 meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Lehigh 31, Columbia 7
2013Lehigh 24, Columbia 10
2012Lehigh 35, Columbia 14
1963Columbia 42, Lehigh 21
1962Columbia 22, Lehigh 15
1961Lehigh 14, Columbia 7

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