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Columbia vs. Stevens

Columbia and Stevens have 15 meetings on file, the first in 1872; Columbia leads the series 9–⁠4–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Columbia 6–⁠2, and Columbia has won the last 2.

Columbia wins
9
Stevens wins
4
Ties
2
Earliest on file
1872
Longest streak
2 Columbia
Current streak
2 Columbia
Last 10 meetings
Columbia 6–⁠2
Most recent
1900

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1870s5–⁠2–⁠2
1880s2–⁠1
1890s1–⁠1
1900s1–⁠0
Average margin
12.5 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Columbia
3–⁠0–⁠1 Columbia’s record at home
At Stevens
4–⁠6–⁠1 Stevens’s record at home
Shutouts
7

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Columbia’s biggest win1899: Columbia 46, Stevens 0by 46 points
  2. Stevens’s biggest win1891: Stevens 52, Columbia 0by 52 points
  3. Upset1874: Stevens 4, Columbia 2Stevens had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  4. Upset1883: Stevens 19, Columbia 0Stevens had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
  5. Upset1876: Stevens 5, Columbia 3Stevens had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Columbia and Stevens, 1872 on13001500170018801900192019401960198020002020

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 New York herald's story of the 1877 game: FOOTBALL. Princeton and Columbia College Teams at Play. JERSEY BOYS THE WINNERS. The College of New York Beaten by Stevens Institute.

    1877 · The New York herald, New York, Nov 18, 1877

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1889 game: COLUMBIA WINS A GAME. A CLOSE FOOTBALL MATCH IN HOBoKEN. THE STEVENS INSTITUTE ELEVEN DEFEATED IN AN EXCITING CoNTEsT-IMPRovED

    1889 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 15, 1889

  • The The Jersey City news's story of the 1899 game: ON THE GRIDIRON Stevens Institute Beaten Badly By Columbia Gossip Of the Teams.

    1899 · The Jersey City news, Jersey City [N.J.], Nov 2, 1899

  • The New-York tribune's story of the 1900 game: FOOTBALL. STEvENS'S PLUCKY BUT UNEVEN FIGHT AGAINST COLUMBIA THE BLUE AND WHITE WINS EASILY.

    1900 · New-York tribune, Oct 18, 1900

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

Oct 17, 1900Columbia 45, Stevens 0at Columbia
Nov 1, 1899Columbia 46, Stevens 0at Stevens
Oct 21, 1891Stevens 52, Columbia 0at Stevens
Nov 14, 1889Columbia 12, Stevens 6at Stevens
Oct 27, 1883Stevens 19, Columbia 0at Stevens
Oct 31, 1881Columbia 3, Stevens 1at Stevens
Oct 25, 1879Stevens 0, Columbia 0at Stevens
Nov 5, 1878Columbia 0, Stevens 0at Columbia
Nov 13, 1877Columbia 1, Stevens 0at Stevens
Nov 18, 1876Columbia 4, Stevens 0at Columbia
Nov 4, 1876Stevens 5, Columbia 3at Stevens
Nov 4, 1875Columbia 2, Stevens 1at Stevens
Oct 31, 1874Stevens 4, Columbia 2at Stevens
Oct 25, 1873Columbia 2, Stevens 1at Stevens
Nov 23, 1872Columbia 6, Stevens 0at Columbia

Every game is listed as played on the field.