Columbia at Brown

Saturday, September 30, 1961

Columbia beat Brown 50–⁠0. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Columbia led the series 13–⁠11–⁠2.

AwayColumbia6–⁠3 in 1961
50
HomeBrown0–⁠9 in 1961
0

FinalHigh 66°F, low 42°FAttendance 9,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: ~ POINTS IN QUARTER Fast Columbia Team Routs Brown, 500

    Evening star, October 1, 1961, page 90

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    ~ POINTS IN QUARTER Fast Columbia Team Routs Brown, 500 PROVIDENCE, r. l.. Sept 80 (APl. - Speedy Columbia, considered to have its best football team in many years, struck for % points in the first quarter today in routing Brown, 500, in an Ivy League game. Columbia got all the games few breaks and took full advantage of them. Early in the first period with the ball on the Brown %, the Bruins Ray Barry purted. The Columbia line poured in on the Brown back who was only 10 yards from the scrimmage line. He kicked into a still southerly breeze and the ball wound up back on the Brown 19. -Four plays later Tom Haggerty. souirming out of the grasp of a pair of defenders, went four yards for the first of Columbias seven touchdowns. Haggerty scored another in that first period five yards around right end. Cuss Warren also scored a pair in the first period. The others we’re regis tered by Center Lee Black who rumbled 26 yards with a blocked kick in the third quarter, Fred Mundorff, and End Con Drotos with a pass from Len DiFiore. The score is the highest in this series. Columbia won. 39-‘ 0. in 1884. 1t was Columbia’s greatest shut out total since

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)

Brown 56% to win. Columbia won as Elo’s underdog.

Brown leads 37–⁠29–⁠2 in 68 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Brown 32, Columbia 29
2024Columbia 21, Brown 12
2023Brown 21, Columbia 14
2022Columbia 31, Brown 24
2021Columbia 23, Brown 17
2019Brown 48, Columbia 24

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