1941 Columbia Lions football team

The 1941 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Columbia University as an independent during the 1941 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Lou Little, the team compiled a 3–5 record and was outscored by a combined total of 103 to 81.[1] The team played its home games at Baker Field in Manhattan.

1941 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
1941 record3–5
Head coachLou Little (12th season)
Home stadiumBaker Field
1941 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 8 Duquesne      8 0 0
No. 6 Fordham      8 1 0
No. 15 Penn      7 1 0
Franklin & Marshall      5 1 1
Penn State      7 2 0
Temple      7 2 0
Harvard      5 2 1
Syracuse      5 2 1
Boston College      7 3 0
Hofstra      5 2 0
Drexel Tech      4 2 1
Boston University      5 3 0
Cornell      5 3 0
Tufts      5 3 0
Army      5 3 1
Brown      5 4 0
Dartmouth      5 4 0
Villanova      4 4 0
Manhattan      4 4 1
Holy Cross      4 4 2
Colgate      3 3 2
Buffalo      3 4 1
Massachusetts State      3 4 1
Columbia      3 5 0
Pittsburgh      3 6 0
Princeton      2 6 0
NYU      2 7 0
Carnegie Tech      1 7 0
Yale      1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The team was led by left halfback Paul Governali who was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.[2] Governali went on to win the Maxwell Award in 1942 and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4Brown
W 13–610,000[3]
October 11at PrincetonW 21–030,000[4]
October 18GeorgiaNo. 20
  • Baker Field
  • New York, NY
L 3–727,000[5]
October 25at ArmyL 0–1328,000[6]
November 1Cornell
  • Baker Field
  • New York, NY
W 7–015,000[7]
November 8at No. 19 PennL 16–1950,000[8]
November 15 No. 7 MichiganL 0–2835,000[9]
November 22Colgate
  • Baker Field
  • New York, NY
L 21–3023,000[10]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

  1. "1941 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  2. "MacKinney and Peabody on A.P. Eastern Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. December 5, 1941. p. 28 via Newspapers.com.
  3. John Ebinger (October 5, 1941). "Lions Score in 2d, 3d; Whip Brown, 13-6". New York Daily News. p. 37C via Newspapers.com.
  4. Joe Trimble (October 12, 1941). "Governali Leads Lions Over Princeton, 21-0". New York Daily News. p. 92 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Gene Ward (October 19, 1941). "Georgia's Sinkwich Beats Columbia, 7-3". New York Daily News. p. 82 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Jimmy Powers (October 26, 1941). "Army Wins, 13-0; Lion Passes Fail". New York Daily News. p. C36 via Newspapers.com.
  7. Joe Trimble (November 2, 1941). "Lions Defeat Cornell, 7-0, On 54-yd Governali Run". New York Daily News. p. 86 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Cy Peterman (November 9, 1941). "Penn Defeats Columbia, 19-16, In Wild Finish Before 50,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Michigan Whips Columbia, 28-0: Attack Led by Westfall and Kuzma". Detroit Free Press. November 16, 1941. pp. Sports 1–2 via Newspapers.com.
  10. Hy Turkin (November 23, 1941). "Colgate Downs Columbia, 30-21". New York Daily News. p. 90 via Newspapers.com.
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