1941 Columbia Lions football team

1941 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIvy League
Record3–5 (3–1 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumBaker Field
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 15 Penn $ 5 0 0 7 1 0
Columbia 3 1 0 3 5 0
Harvard 4 2 0 5 2 1
Cornell 3 2 0 5 3 0
Dartmouth 2 2 0 5 4 0
Brown 1 2 0 5 4 0
Princeton 1 4 0 2 6 0
Yale 0 6 0 1 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented the Columbia University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Lou Little, the team compiled a 3–5 record and was outscored by a combined total of 103 to 81.[1]

The team was led by left halfback Paul Governali who was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.[2] Governali went on to win the Maxwell Award in 1942 and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Columbia was ranked at No. 42 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[3]

The team played its home games at Baker Field in Manhattan.

  1. ^ "1941 Columbia Lions Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "MacKinney and Peabody on A.P. Eastern Eleven". The Boston Daily Globe. December 5, 1941. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 26, 1941). "Gophers Grid Kings Over 6-Year Span: Tennessee 2d, Pitt 3d Over Period Litkenhous Ratins Are Published". The Courier-Journal. p. Sports 4 – via Newspapers.com.