1934_Columbia_Lions_football_team Knowpia

The 1934 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Lou Little, the team compiled a 7–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 140 to 49.^[1] The team played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan.

1934 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Tufts		–		8	–	0	–	0
Trinity (CT)		–		7	–	0	–	0
La Salle		–		7	–	0	–	1
Washington College		–		5	–	0	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		8	–	1	–	0
No. 4 Pittsburgh		–		8	–	1	–	0
No. 8 Colgate		–		7	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 5 Princeton		–		7	–	1	–	0
Duquesne		–		8	–	2	–	0
Holy Cross		–		8	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Temple		–		7	–	1	–	2
No. 10 Syracuse		–		6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		7	–	2	–	2
No. 14 Army		–		7	–	3	–	0
Northeastern		–		6	–	1	–	1
Rochester		–		5	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	3	–	0
Saint Anselm		–		6	–	3	–	0
Amherst		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		5	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Massachusetts State		–		5	–	3	–	1
CCNY		–		4	–	3	–	0
Providence		–		4	–	3	–	0
Drexel		–		4	–	3	–	1
Boston College		–		5	–	4	–	0
Bates		–		3	–	3	–	1
Middlebury		–		3	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		4	–	4	–	0
Penn State		–		4	–	4	–	0
Williams		–		4	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		4	–	5	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		4	–	5	–	0
Villanova		–		3	–	4	–	2
NYU		–		3	–	4	–	1
Boston University		–		3	–	4	–	0
Colby		–		3	–	4	–	0
Springfield		–		2	–	3	–	3
Manhattan		–		3	–	5	–	1
Harvard		–		3	–	5	–	0
Vermont		–		2	–	4	–	2
Wesleyan		–		3	–	5	–	0
Brown		–		3	–	6	–	0
Geneva		–		2	–	5	–	2
Saint Joseph's		–		2	–	5	–	1
Cornell		–		2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette		–		2	–	6	–	0
Norwich		–		2	–	6	–	0
Bowdoin		–		0	–	6	–	1
Lowell Textile		–		0	–	7	–	1

Rankings from Associated Press

Schedule edit

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 6	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 12–6	25,000	^[2]
October 13	VMI	Baker Field New York, NY	W 29–6	18,000	^[3]
October 20	Navy	Baker Field New York, NY	L 7–18
October 27	Penn State	Baker Field New York, NY	W 14–7
November 3	Cornell	Baker Field New York, NY (rivalry)	W 14–0
November 10	Brown	Baker Field New York, NY	W 39–0
November 17	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 13–12	45,000	^[4]
November 25	Syracuse	Baker Field New York, NY	W 12–0

^ "1934 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
^ "Lions Devour Yale Pup, 12-6 As Elis Stage Dogged Battle". Daily News. October 7, 1934. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Columbia beats V.M.I. in first home play 29–6". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 14, 1934. Retrieved December 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Perry Lewis (November 18, 1934). "45,000 Watch Columbia Nip Penn, 13 to 12". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S2 – via Newspapers.com.