1928 Columbia Lions football team

1928 Columbia Lions football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Charles Crowley (4th season)
Home stadium	Baker Field

1928 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Boston College			–					9	–	0	–	0
West Chester			–					8	–	0	–	0
Villanova			–					7	–	0	–	1
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 11 Penn			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Army			–					8	–	2	–	0
Drexel			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 10 NYU			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					7	–	1	–	2
Lafayette			–					6	–	1	–	2
Princeton			–					5	–	1	–	2
CCNY			–					4	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					5	–	2	–	1
Tufts			–					5	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	3
Columbia			–					5	–	3	–	1
Boston University			–					3	–	3	–	2
Cornell			–					3	–	3	–	2
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	5	–	2
Providence			–					1	–	5	–	3
Vermont			–					1	–	7	–	2
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1928 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1928 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Charles Crowley, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored opponents 132 to 95. The team played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Vermont	Baker Field New York, NY	W 20–0	10,000
October 6	Union (NY)	Baker Field New York, NY	W 27–0
October 13	Wesleyan	Baker Field New York, NY	W 31–7
October 20	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 7–21
October 27	Williams	Baker Field New York, NY	W 20–6
November 3	Cornell	Baker Field New York, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	22,000
November 10	Johns Hopkins	Baker Field New York, NY	W 14–13
November 17	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 7–34	45,000
November 29	Syracuse	Baker Field New York, NY	L 6–14	35,000