1949 Columbia Lions football team

1949 Columbia Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–7
Head coach
Captains
  • Leon Van Bellingham
  • James Ward
Home stadiumBaker Field
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Vincent     10 0 0
No. 4 Army     9 0 0
Trinity (CT)     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
No. 12 Cornell     8 1 0
No. 13 Villanova     8 1 0
Bucknell     6 2 0
Dartmouth     6 2 0
Buffalo     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     6 3 0
Princeton     6 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Temple     5 4 0
Penn     4 4 0
Yale     4 4 0
Boston College     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 5 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Duquesne     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 5 2
CCNY     2 5 1
NYU     3 6 0
Columbia     2 7 0
Hofstra     1 5 1
Colgate     1 8 0
Harvard     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1949 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1949 college football season.

In their 20th season under head coach Lou Little, the Lions compiled a 2–7 record, and were outscored 276 to 82. Team captains Leon Van Bellingham and James Ward.[1]

Columbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.

  1. ^ "Columbia Football 2019 Record Book". New York, N.Y.: Columbia University. p. 213. Retrieved June 15, 2020.