1934 Columbia Lions football team

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American college football season

1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts   –   8 – 0 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   7 – 0 – 0
La Salle   –   7 – 0 – 1
Franklin & Marshall   –   8 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   7 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   7 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Duquesne   –   8 – 2 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   7 – 1 – 2
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   7 – 2 – 2
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 (MA)   –   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

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.

Schedule[edit]

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source
October 6 at Yale W 12–6 25,000 [2]
October 13 VMI W 29–6 18,000 [3]
October 20 Navy L 7–18
October 27 Penn State W 14–7
November 3 Cornell W 14–0
November 10 Brown W 39–0
November 17 at Penn W 13–12 45,000 [4]
November 25 Syracuse W 12–0

References[edit]

  1. ^

    “1934 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results”. SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 8, 2019.

  2. ^ “Lions Devour Yale Pup, 12-6 As Elis Stage Dogged Battle”. Daily News. October 7, 1934. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ “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.
  4. ^ Perry Lewis (November 18, 1934). “45,000 Watch Columbia Nip Penn, 13 to 12”. The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S2 – via Newspapers.com.


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