Football Team
Columbia maintains a football team as an excuse to remain in the very relevant athletic conference known as the Ivy League. Luckily, most of the other Ivy League schools are relying on the same excuse, so the games don't get too brutal.
The team plays its home games at the beautiful, bucolic, bilateral, urbane, multicultural, eleemosynary, yet still iconoclastic Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field on 218th Street in the Inwood section of Manhattan. Columbia has a storied football history. One time, the team lost a record 44 games in a row. In 1968, possibly in an effort to bolster fan enthusiasm, the the players beat up on some hippies outside of Low Library. Contrary to popular belief, the football team has occaisonally won games. Most notably the 1961 league title, the 1934 Rose Bowl, and a 1947 match agains the cadets of Army who hadn't lost a game in 4 years. Heavily recruited football players sometimes come back to speak at Columbia College Class Day.
The football team is currently coached by Norries Wilson.
