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1941 Columbia Lions football team

The 1941 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Columbia University in the Ivy League 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]

1941 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIvy League
Record3–5 (3–1 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumBaker Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Columbia 3 – 1 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
Harvard 4 – 2 – 0 5 – 2 – 1
Cornell 3 – 2 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Brown 1 – 2 – 0 5 – 4 – 0
Princeton 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
Yale 0 – 6 – 0 1 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
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.

Columbia was ranked at No. 42 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

The team played its home games at Baker Field in Manhattan.

Schedule

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

Rankings

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See also: 1941 NCAA football rankings
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked
Week
Poll1234567Final
AP20———————

References

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  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. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ John Ebinger (October 5, 1941). "Lions Score in 2d, 3d; Whip Brown, 13-6". New York Daily News. p. 37C – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Joe Trimble (October 12, 1941). "Governali Leads Lions Over Princeton, 21-0". New York Daily News. p. 92 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Gene Ward (October 19, 1941). "Georgia's Sinkwich Beats Columbia, 7-3". New York Daily News. p. 82 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Jimmy Powers (October 26, 1941). "Army Wins, 13-0; Lion Passes Fail". New York Daily News. p. C36 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Joe Trimble (November 2, 1941). "Lions Defeat Cornell, 7-0, On 54-yd Governali Run". New York Daily News. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Cy Peterman (November 9, 1941). "Penn Defeats Columbia, 19-16, In Wild Finish Before 50,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1S – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Michigan Whips Columbia, 28-0: Attack Led by Westfall and Kuzma". Detroit Free Press. November 16, 1941. pp. Sports 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Hy Turkin (November 23, 1941). "Colgate Downs Columbia, 30-21". New York Daily News. p. 90 – via Newspapers.com.
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