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1984 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIvy League
Record0–9 (0–7 Ivy)
Head coach
CaptainTony Mazzarini
Home stadiumWien Stadium
Seasons
← 1983
1985 →
1984 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn $ 7 – 0 – 0 8 – 1 – 0
Yale 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 3 – 0
Harvard 5 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Brown 4 – 3 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Princeton 3 – 4 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Cornell 2 – 5 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 5 – 0 2 – 7 – 0
Columbia 0 – 7 – 0 0 – 9 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1984 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Amid a record-setting loss streak, Columbia finished last in the Ivy League.

In their fifth and final season under head coach Bob Naso, the Lions compiled an 0–9 record and were outscored 282 to 117. Tony Mazzarini was the team captain.[1]

The Lions' winless (0–7) conference record was the worst in the Ivy League standings. Columbia was outscored 224 to 87 by Ivy opponents.[2]

By losing all of their games in 1984, the Lions extended a winless streak and a losing streak that began in 1983. The team would later set a Division I record for consecutive games without a win, 44, from 1983 to 1988. Columbia's last win before the streak was October 15, 1983, at Yale; its last tie was November 5, 1983, against Dartmouth. It would not win or tie another game until October 9, 1988, against Princeton. This stretch, which included the entirety of the 1984 to 1987 seasons, included 33 consecutive Ivy League losses.[3] A decade later, Columbia's streak was surpassed by an 80-game loss streak by Prairie View A&M in 1989–1998.

Following a season with seven road games and three "home" games at neutral sites, Columbia in 1984 moved into Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Upper Manhattan, in New York City, playing six of its nine games at home. The new stadium was built on the same site as the former Baker Field, which hosted Columbia football from 1923 to 1982.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Harvard
  • Wien Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 21–35 10,500 [4]
September 29 Lafayette*
  • Wien Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 14–23 4,034 [5]
October 6 at Penn
L 7–35 8,469 [6]
October 13 Princetondagger
  • Wien Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 8–38 9,621 [7]
October 20 at Yale
L 21–28 13,888 [8]
October 27 No. 15 Colgate*
  • Wien Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 16–35 6,617 [9]
November 3 at Dartmouth
L 9–41 5,685 [10]
November 10 Cornell
L 7–19 5,996 [11]
November 20 Brown
  • Wien Stadium
  • New York, NY
L 14–28 4,635 [12]

References

  1. ^ "Columbia Football 2019 Record Book". New York, N.Y.: Columbia University. p. 216. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. pp. 30–31. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
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  5. ^ "Columbia Bows to Lafayette". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. September 30, 1984. p. S9.
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  12. ^ Durso, Joseph (November 18, 1984). "Brown Ends Columbia's Season at 0-9". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. pp. S7, S8.
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