1920 Columbia Lions football team

1920 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
CaptainJohn F. Kienninger
Home stadiumSouth Field, Polo Grounds
Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College     8 0 0
Harvard     8 0 1
Princeton     6 0 1
Penn State     7 0 2
Pittsburgh     6 0 2
Army     7 2 0
Dartmouth     7 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 1
Geneva     5 2 1
New Hampshire     5 2 1
Brown     6 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Penn     6 4 0
Carnegie Tech     5 3 0
Lafayette     5 3 0
Holy Cross     5 3 0
Williams     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Fordham     4 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     3 2 2
Boston University     4 3 1
Columbia     4 4 0
Duquesne     3 3 1
Vermont     3 5 0
NYU     2 5 1
Rhode Island State     0 4 4
Tufts     2 6 0
Rutgers     2 7 0
Buffalo     1 4 0
Colgate     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Drexel     0 6 0

The 1920 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1920 college football season. In his first season, head coach Frank "Buck" O'Neill led the team to a 4–4 record, but the Lions were outscored 141 to 75 by opponents.[1]

The team played most of its games on South Field, part of the university's campus in Morningside Heights in Upper Manhattan.

  1. ^ "Columbia Football 2019 Record Book". New York, N.Y.: Columbia University. p. 212. Retrieved June 15, 2020.