1997 Columbia Lions football team
American college football season
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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.
- Ray Tellier (9th season)
- Jay DuPertuis
- Matt Kuhn
| 1997 Columbia Lions football | |
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 4–6[a] (3–4 Ivy) |
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| Home stadium | Wien Stadium |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| 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
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| 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] | |||
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Note
^ 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]