1997 Columbia Lions football | |
---|---|
Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 4–6[a] (3–4 Ivy) |
Head coach |
|
Captains |
|
Home stadium | Wien Stadium |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard $ | 7 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 6 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 4 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 4 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 3 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 3 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | 1 | – | 6 | 2 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn * | 0 | – | 7 | 1 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
The 1997 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Columbia tied for fifth in the Ivy League.
In their ninth season under head coach Ray Tellier, the Lions compiled a 4–6 record and were outscored 259 to 141. Jay DuPertuis and Matt Kuhn were the team captains.[1]
The Lions' 3–4 conference record tied for fifth in the Ivy League standings. Columbia was outscored 177 to 106 by Ivy opponents.[2]
Columbia played its homes games at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
September 20 | at Harvard | L 7–45 | 7,658 | [3] | |||
September 27 | Towson* | W 16–6 | 2,710 | [4] | |||
October 4 | at Lafayette* | L 3–31 | 3,822 | [5] | |||
October 11 | Holy Cross* |
| L 16–45 | 3,335 | [6] | ||
October 18 | Penn |
| W 7–24 [a] | 3,909 | [7][8] | ||
October 25 | Yale |
| W 21–10 | 4,665 | [9] | ||
November 1 | Princeton |
| W 17–0 | 1,015 | [10] | ||
November 8 | Dartmouth |
| L 21–23 | 1,375 | [11] | ||
November 15 | at Cornell | L 22–33 | 1,158 | [12] | |||
November 22 | at Brown | L 11–42 | 1,520 | [13] | |||
|
^ a: In January 1998, Penn agreed to forfeit its Ivy League wins from 1997 after star defensive tackle Mitch Marrow was declared ineligible as a part-time student.[8] Columbia's[1] and Penn's[14] record books regard their 1997 meeting, a 24–7 Penn victory on the field, as a Columbia win, as do the 1997 win–loss records and season standings in the Ivy League record book.[2]