columbia’s surprising football team now finds itself on a losing streak, sadly familiar terrain. the ivy title that had been within their grasp just two weeks ago still beckons, but can be captured only with complex, multilateral assistance. first, someone must deal yale its second loss. princeton, licking its wounds from a close fought loss […] Read more »
nothing is written – resilient, talented lions surge to the head of the ivy football class
allgame seldom comments on the lion football program, so lamentable has been its performance. the current eleven, however, deserves commendation. twenty years ago, my sons and i sat in the top tier of franklin field shrieking our joy at columbia’s overtime victory in penn’s cavernous stadium. defensive star marcellus wiley raised his helmet, at our […] Read more »
the nightmare of history
in a year filled with humiliating routs, the stunned columbia football fan finds himself still groping for an appropriate characterization of the horror he witnesses. this past weekend’s visit to lovely long branch, new jersey provided perhaps the greatest challenge to our imagination of disaster so far, as the lions fell with a 61 – […] Read more »
must have been the hat
sports fans had their pick of thrillers this past saturday. both major league championship series provided 1 -0 nailbiters; coach mack brown’s longhorns broke a three game schneid in the red river rivalry and dropped 14 point favorite oklahoma; utah upset lordly stanford; penn state fought through four overtime periods to defeat 18th ranked and […] Read more »
ugly start
happy coincidences of family obligation spared allgame the nausea inducing horror of watching columbia’s gridders lose their first two contests this season. i can understand a casual reader’s assumption that the psychic callous of myriad unsuccesful saturdays at baker field would protect a lion rooter from the cliched, panicky response of all too many sports fans when their personal mudville nine […] Read more »
superb saturday
on a day that texas a & m hurled alabama from the heights of college football supremacy, america turned its eyes to wien stadium where columbia’s lions looked to bounce back from a historic, 69 -0, ass whipping administered by the criminally effective harvard cantabridgians and humble ezra cornell’s crew in the battle for the vaunted […] Read more »
wasn’t that a time?
a quick reminder that today we proudly remember, and loudly celebrate, the 65th anniversary of columbia’s greatest victory. on that glorious day, coach lou little’s lions, led by lou kusserow, gene rossides and bill swiacki, upended the three time defending national champion army team, snapping their 37 game unbeaten streak in the process. […] Read more »
big day, big disappointment
geezer and i were getting to know each other before home coming kickoff. we agreed readily that our seats (sec g,row ww, #s 62 and 61)were the best in the house. first, because of the back support supplied by the stadium’s rear wall. secondly, they were incomparable because of the view – across the harlem and through the […] Read more »
feline little big horn
equanimity is the greatest characteristic for player, coach, or even fan. the season’s length and difficulties require quiet resignation in the face of frequent, or at least regular, disappointment. so i will point out that last week i was upbeat following the lion loss to fordham. i relished my glass half filled and looked forward […] Read more »
we’ll take it.
seems like years since allgame has piped up. the long humid summer left us speechless and saddened by the early retirement of the three best of this year’s three year old thoroughbred class (i’ll have another, union rags and bodemeister) all of which left the competitive oval because of injury. the simultaneous tumble of the […] Read more »