Columbia vs. Haverford

Columbia and Haverford first met in 1901 and have played 3 times; Columbia leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Columbia 3–⁠0, and Columbia has won the last 3.

Columbia wins
3
Haverford wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1901
Longest streak
3 Columbia
Current streak
3 Columbia
Last 10 meetings
Columbia 3–⁠0
Most recent
1925

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1920s2–⁠0
Average margin
36 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Columbia
3–⁠0 Columbia’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Columbia and Haverford, 1901 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Worcester spy's story of the 1901 game: Columbia 0utpIays Haverford at All Stages Of the Game But tumble Allowed Philadelphia to Score WEEKS WAS THE STAR OF THE GAME He Scored Four of the Five TouchdoWns Made by the New YorkerS-Haverford Tackle A. ter EIuding Pursuers Stopped to Laugh at Opponents

    1901 · The Worcester spy, Worcester, Mass., Oct 31, 1901

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

Sep 26, 1925Columbia 59, Haverford 0at Columbia
Sep 27, 1924Columbia 29, Haverford 3at Columbia
Oct 30, 1901Columbia 29, Haverford 6at Columbia

Every game is listed as played on the field.