Colgate vs. Columbia

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Colgate’s biggest win1930: Colgate 54, Columbia 0by 54 points
2. Columbia’s biggest win1945: Columbia 31, Colgate 7by 24 points
3. Upset1938: Colgate 12, Columbia 0Colgate had a 35% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Colgate’s side (Kerr 6–⁠2–⁠1 against Little). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

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  1921 · New-York tribune, Nov 25, 1921

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  1922 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Dec 1, 1922

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  1929 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Nov 11, 1929

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  1938 · Evening star, Oct 16, 1938

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  1939 · Evening star, Nov 26, 1939

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Colgate vs. Cornell90 meetings, Colgate 39–⁠48–⁠3
• Colgate vs. Holy Cross67 meetings, Colgate 32–⁠30–⁠5
• Colgate vs. Syracuse61 meetings, Colgate 25–⁠32–⁠4
• Colgate vs. Bucknell55 meetings, Colgate 42–⁠13
• Columbia vs. Cornell91 meetings, Columbia 36–⁠52–⁠3
• Columbia vs. Pennsylvania84 meetings, Columbia 22–⁠61–⁠1
• Columbia vs. Yale81 meetings, Columbia 17–⁠62–⁠2
• Columbia vs. Princeton74 meetings, Columbia 12–⁠61–⁠1