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The Columbia University Lions are the collective athletic teams and their members from Columbia University, an Ivy League institution in New York City, United States. The current director of athletics is Peter Pilling.
John William Hobbs "Doc" Pollard was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1897 to 1899, at Lehigh University in 1901, at the University of Rochester from 1902 to 1904, at the University of Alabama from 1906 to 1909, and at Washington and Lee University from 1910 to 1911, compiling a career college football record of 56–43–8. Pollard also coached baseball at Alabama from 1907–1910 and at Washington and Lee, tallying a career college baseball mark of 86–31–1.
The 1872 college football season is considered to be the third season ever played of intercollegiate football competition, due to no season taking place in 1871. Much like in the first and second years, 1869 and 1870, the rules were still considered in flux, and were decided on in a game-to-game basis. However, the rules used likely did not resemble anything that a modern football observer would recognize, being that of a mix of soccer and rugby.
The 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game was a college football game between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri played on November 25, 1911 at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri. It is widely considered, although contested, to be the first college football homecoming game ever played.
The 1875 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1875 college football season. The team finished with a 4–1–1 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They outscored their opponents 13–10.
The 1872 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, then more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1872 college football season. The team finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Billingsley Report and National Championship Foundation and as the national co-champion by Parke H. Davis. Princeton played Rutgers once, winning 4 goals to 1. David T. Marvel was the team captain.
The 1899 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1899 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and Parke H. Davis. Harvard compiled a 10–0–1 record and was selected as the national champion by three other selectors. They outscored their opponents 185 to 21.
The 1872 Yale Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Yale University in the 1872 college football season. The team finished with a 1–0 record and was retroactively named co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. They played Columbia at Hamilton Park and won 3–0. Each team had 20 players and the field was 400 feet long and 250 wide. Tommy Sherman scored the first goal and Lew Irwin the other two. The team's captain was David Schley Schaff, who attended the Rugby School in England where he learned to play football.
The 1899 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 7–2–1 record, recorded eight shutouts, and outscored all opponents by a total of 191 to 16. The team defeated Wisconsin (6–0), Army (24–0), and Penn State (42–0), played a scoreless tie against Harvard, and lost to Columbia (0–5) and Princeton (10–11).
The 1876 Princeton Tigers football team represented the College of New Jersey, more commonly known as Princeton College, in the 1876 college football season. The team finished with a 3–2 record and outscored its opponents, 15–3, but lost to both Harvard and Yale. 1876 was the only year between 1872 and 1881 that Princeton did not claim at least a share of the national championship assigned retroactively by either the Billingsley Report, the National Championship Foundation, or Parke H. Davis. The captain of the team was A. J. McCosh in the fall and B. Nicoll in the spring of 1877.
The 1870 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1870 college football season. They finished with a 0–1 record.
The 1874 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1874 college football season.
The 1873 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1873 college football season.
The 1876 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1876 college football season.
The 1879 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1879 college football season.
The 1880 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1880 college football season.
The 1881 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1881 college football season.
The 1882 Columbia football team represented Columbia University in the 1882 college football season.
The 1947 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Columbia University during the 1947 college football season. In its 18th season under head coach Lou Little, the team compiled a 7–2 record, was ranked No. 20 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a total of 170 to 113.
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- ↑ "2016 Record Book Columbia Football". gocolumbialions.com. Columbia Athletics. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
- ↑ "1872 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results | College Football". www.sports-reference.com.
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