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1955 Columbia Lions Football Team
The 1955 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1955 college football season. In their 26th season under head coach Lou Little, the Lions compiled a 1–8 record, and were outscored 251 to 74. Manfredo Bucci was the team captain. This would be Columbia's final year as a NCAA Division I independent schools, football independent, as the Ivy League, which Columbia had helped co-found in 1954, began football competition in 1956. Six of the nine opponents on Columbia's 1955 schedule were Ivy League members (with 1955 Penn Quakers football team, Penn the only Ivy not scheduled); for decades, (future) Ivy members had comprised a large portion of Columbia's opponents. Columbia played its home games at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City. Schedule References {{Columbia Lions football navbox 1955 Ivy League football season, Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. The term ''Ivy League'' is typically used beyond the sports context to refer to the eight schools as a group of elite colleges with connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. Its members are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. While the term was in use as early as 1933, it became official only after the formation of the athletic conference in 1954. All of the "Ivies" except Cornell were founded during the colonial period; they thus account for seven of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The other two colonial colleges, Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary, became public institutions. Ivy League schools are v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
