Columbia vs. Princeton

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

1. Columbia’s biggest win2009: Columbia 38, Princeton 0by 38 points
2. Princeton’s biggest win1890: Princeton 85, Columbia 0by 85 points
3. Upset2017: Columbia 28, Princeton 24Columbia had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1948: Princeton 16, Columbia 14Princeton had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1900: Columbia 6, Princeton 5Columbia had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Columbia’s side (Little 1–⁠6 against Caldwell). 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 8, 1882

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  1882 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 26, 1882

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  1899 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 16, 1899

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  1900 · The times, Washington [D.C.], Nov 7, 1900

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  1902 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 26, 1902

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.

• 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. Dartmouth73 meetings, Columbia 16–⁠57
• Princeton vs. Yale126 meetings, Princeton 45–⁠71–⁠10
• Princeton vs. Pennsylvania95 meetings, Princeton 63–⁠31–⁠1
• Princeton vs. Harvard95 meetings, Princeton 51–⁠37–⁠7
• Princeton vs. Cornell86 meetings, Princeton 54–⁠30–⁠2