Columbia vs. Harvard

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

1. Columbia’s biggest win1951: Columbia 35, Harvard 0by 35 points
2. Harvard’s biggest win2012: Harvard 69, Columbia 0by 69 points
3. Upset2022: Columbia 21, Harvard 20Columbia had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1978: Columbia 21, Harvard 19Columbia had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1954: Columbia 7, Harvard 6Columbia had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Columbia’s side (Little 6–⁠1 against Jordan). 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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  1882 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 12, 1882

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  1900 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 14, 1900

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  1901 · The daily morning journal and courier, New Haven, Conn., Oct 14, 1901

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  1949 · Evening star, Oct 2, 1949

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  1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 8, 1950

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.

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  The 1963 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited), and libraries and archives found through the Digital Public Library of America (each under its holder’s rights statement).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• 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
• Harvard vs. Yale120 meetings, Harvard 50–⁠62–⁠8
• Harvard vs. Dartmouth107 meetings, Harvard 63–⁠40–⁠4
• Harvard vs. Brown104 meetings, Harvard 78–⁠24–⁠2
• Harvard vs. Princeton95 meetings, Harvard 37–⁠51–⁠7