Ivy League GOTW: Princeton @ Columbia

[Underdog 28823]

Princeton currently up 20-10 late in the 2nd qtr.  

 

Game on The U. 

[texifornia 57202]

Come on Lions! Awesome to be on real national TV for once.

[Underdog 28823]

Tigers with another TD, 27-10. 

[texifornia 57202]

This is going poorly. Figures after last year when we were sneaky good, the universe would rebalance. 

[texifornia 57202]

Although this score is very bad, enjoy this cool picture of the old football stadium before they opened Baker Field on the northern end of Manhattan:

[Underdog 28823]

As many times I’ve been to the city, surprised I’ve never made it over to Columbia, same with Jersey and Princeton. 

[texifornia 57202]

7 minutes ago, Underdog said:

As many times I’ve been to the city, surprised I’ve never made it over to Columbia, same with Jersey and Princeton. 

Both campuses are wonderful in their own way. Princeton's also a great little college town.

[Bullneck 19262]

One the best fight songs evar.

 

[texifornia 57202]

Welp. Last year's mojo seems to be well and truly gone:

 

[Blanton 170]

1 minute ago, texifornia said:

Welp. Last year's mojo seems to be well and truly gone:

 

Are you a Columbia football fan? I can’t imagine there are too many running around, alumni included. 

[texifornia 57202]

Just now, Blanton said:

Are you a Columbia football fan? I can’t imagine there are too many running around, alumni included. 

I'm an alum, so I hope the team does well. I worked in the athletic department when I was there, which involved a lot of digging around the archives, so I love all the history of Ivy football.

I just hope they win the league once while I'm alive - they've only ever split the title in 1961. We did win a Rose Bowl against Stanford back in the day, though, and have two claimed national championships (1875 and 1933).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Rose_Bowl

[texifornia 57202]

One fun brush with history - my fraternity had one of the uprights in our common room from when the Lions beat Princeton in 1988 to break what was then Division I's longest-ever losing streak (44 games). Prairie View A&M has since surpassed us in being shitty at football, though.

[UT_CU 12]

Columbia MBA ‘10 checking in...

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Texifornia seems to be an alum...any other Surly assholes that paid waaaay too much for a CU degree?


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[ztejas 43602]

4 minutes ago, UT_CU said:

Columbia MBA ‘10 checking in...

(UT B.Arch ‘05)

Texifornia seems to be an alum...any other Surly assholes that paid waaaay too much for a CU degree?


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I paid somewhat too much for an SMU degree

[Blanton 170]

25 minutes ago, texifornia said:

One fun brush with history - my fraternity had one of the uprights in our common room from when the Lions beat Princeton in 1988 to break what was then Division I's longest-ever losing streak (44 games). Prairie View A&M has since surpassed us in being shitty at football, though.

I’m pretty sure Jason Garrett played in that game

[texifornia 57202]

2 minutes ago, Blanton said:

I’m pretty sure Jason Garrett played in that game

Yup, he was Princeton's senior QB, after transferring from Columbia because his dad got fired as head coach.

Matthew Fox, star of Lost, was on Columbia's squad for that game.

[Bullneck 19262]

The Game this year will be at Fenway Park.  Tickets are already sold out.

[kopp0e 1135]

1 hour ago, texifornia said:

Although this score is very bad, enjoy this cool picture of the old football stadium before they opened Baker Field on the northern end of Manhattan:

About what year is the photo from..?

[texifornia 57202]

1 minute ago, kopp0e said:

About what year is the photo from..?

Baker was inaugurated in 1923, so before then. In the spring they switched it to a baseball field - it's where Lou Gehrig played his college ball:

[kopp0e 1135]

That's pretty cool..! 

[Blanton 170]

19 minutes ago, texifornia said:

Baker was inaugurated in 1923, so before then. In the spring they switched it to a baseball field - it's where Lou Gehrig played his college ball:

Damn, talk about a different era...

[gmr548 16617]

I'm an alum, so I hope the team does well. I worked in the athletic department when I was there, which involved a lot of digging around the archives, so I love all the history of Ivy football.
I just hope they win the league once while I'm alive - they've only ever split the title in 1961. We did win a Rose Bowl against Stanford back in the day, though, and have two claimed national championships (1875 and 1933).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Rose_Bowl

I was told by aggy that championships won in the great depression are the ones to be most proud of, so hold your head high.

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[texifornia 57202]

Good try good effort

 

[TreatyOak 16441]

This will be a rare post from me that is not solely an image that I've photo-comped together. 

When I lived in NYC, one of my friend's brothers played for Columbia so I went and watched several of their games at Baker Field. Based at the very northern tip of Manhattan, it is a magnificent place to see a game. In my opinion, only West Point exceeds it for NYC-area settings for college football. 

One of the companies I worked for rented Baker Field out for our inter-office game. The bastards on the other team brought in two ringers who had nothing to do whatsoever with our company. Whatever. 

Okay, in keeping with my tradition, here is a vintage image of Aggy receiving a visit from friends at Kyle Field. 

 

[Underdog 28823]

Worked with a Columbia grad back at AMD years ago, cute little Asian chick.  If only I were single and 20 yrs. younger back then, was the start of my yellow fever. 

Childhood buddy of mine’s daughter did post-grad at Columbia also, she loved it. 

[CrownKing 55]

Neighbors son is a freshman on the Columbia football team. They moved him to LB from safety so he is in the process of bulking up so he hasn't played yet. Good to see I'll b able to follow Columbia games on Surly. 

[ClubWhatever 12159]

Dropping in to note I received no scholarship offers of any kind and no hope of admittance to either of these schools.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Bumping because the following cross post doesn't deserve its own thread, but I gots nowhere else to put it:

On October 20, 1873, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities drafted the first code of rules for American Football. 

Rules (always a good idea for games, one would imagine) were more necessary in the case of the newly invented sport owing to the fact that at the time, every game played since the first contest between Rutgers and Princeton had been played according to the rules set in place by the home team. 

Initially, football looked an awful lot like rugby, with anywhere from 25-40 players on each side running roughshod over each other; there weren't even any "downs" or "snaps" -- it was a disorganized, violent, bloody mess (as opposed to the organized and sanitary violent, bloody mess it is now). 

It wasn't until 1880 when Walter Camp revised the rules that the number of players per side was limited to 11, and the idea of "downs" replaced the mad rugby-style scrums which had lead to unacceptable injury -- and even mortality -- rates, the way the game had originally been played.