Football @ Columbia

[Ken711]

At least with the Columbia win we won't match the 1935 team for being winless.

[TimV]

At least with the Columbia win we won't match the 1935 team for being winless.

Yet, four years later they went undefeated, and won a National Championship....Maybe- Maybe we could... Naaahhh.

[jtwcornell91]

Does anyone have video highlights of this game?  And the time and inclination to edit them into a video with "Yakkity Sax" as the accompanyng music? :-D

[ugarte]

The entire final drive by Columbia can (and soon will) be the subject of detailed treatment, but there is no better way to describe the game than to quickly recap Columbia's last play on offense:

After completing a 14 yard pass on 3d and 22, and the clock at a bit over a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, McDonough took the snap and rolled left. Pursued by defenders, he threw the ball away, well out of bounds, in what appeared to be an effort to stop the clock. If you have forgotten where this recap started, it was fourth down. It is probably small consolation that the clock, in fact, did stop on the incomplete pass and/or change of possession.

[RichH]

Thanks to this game being inexplicably broadcast on the ubiquitously available *cough* Fox College Sports Atlantic network, the ILDN video stream was blacked out, thus making the Columbia audio the most convenient option.

And to listen to that broadcast was to gaze into the soul of two tortured on-air announcers who for one shining moment got to play the role of homers. Two people who seemed to relish the opportunity to laud the most remarkably resiliant and talented soon-to-be 0-9 team in history and to finally -- FINALLY have an opponent to tear into for its shoddy play. Every Cornell mistake was met with guffaws and mockery (which, you know...welcome to the party), while every Columbia misfortune was followed by 10 seconds of silence. The color commentator repeated about 10 times that he had never *heard* of a PAT being run back before.  It was entertaining and listenable because they were actually good at calling the action.

[Al DeFlorio]

The color commentator repeated about 10 times that he had never *heard* of a PAT being run back before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0mzUoqK1RM

[ugarte]

Thanks to this game being inexplicably broadcast on the ubiquitously available *cough* Fox College Sports Atlantic network, the ILDN video stream was blacked out, thus making the Columbia audio the most convenient option.

And to listen to that broadcast was to gaze into the soul of two tortured on-air announcers who for one shining moment got to play the role of homers. Two people who seemed to relish the opportunity to laud the most remarkably resiliant and talented soon-to-be 0-9 team in history and to finally -- FINALLY have an opponent to tear into for its shoddy play. Every Cornell mistake was met with guffaws and mockery (which, you know...welcome to the party), while every Columbia misfortune was followed by 10 seconds of silence. The color commentator repeated about 10 times that he had never *heard* of a PAT being run back before.  It was entertaining and listenable because they were actually good at calling the action.

I listened to some of Columbia - Yale while driving a few weeks ago (or whenever it was) and I really liked this crew. It was quality commentary about the game action interspersed with gallows humor about a team that they knew was objectively bad.

[TimV]

Coach Slouch knows Columbia.