1917 Columbia Lions football team

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1917 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–4
Head coach
CaptainD. A. Cochran
Home stadiumSouth Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech
    2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall
    2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple
    0 6 1

The 1917 Columbia Lions football team was an

Morningside Heights in Upper Manhattan
.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 20
Union (NY)
W 21–0 [1]
October 27 Williams
  • South Field
  • New York, NY
L 6–9 [2]
November 3
Amherst
  • South Field
  • New York, NY
L 6–14 [1]
November 10
Hobart
  • South Field
  • New York, NY
L 6–14 [3]
November 17
Wesleyan
  • South Field
  • New York, NY
W 18–0 8,000 [4]
November 24 NYU
  • South Field
  • New York, NY
L 7–9 [5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Columbia Football 2019 Record Book". New York, N.Y.: Columbia University. p. 211. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Columbia Topples Before Williams". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 28, 1917. p. E6.
  3. ^ "Columbia Rolls Up a Huge Score". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 11, 1917. p. E6.
  4. ^ "Field Goals Prove Columbia's Undoing". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 18, 1917. p. E6.
  5. ^ "Columbia Eleven Beaten by N.Y.U.". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 25, 1917. p. E5.