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NEW YORK — Columbia, known as a perennial football loser, won its first Ivy League title since 1961. The Lions beat Cornell 17-9, then gained a share of the title when Harvard lost to Yale 34-29. Columbia, Harvard and Dartmouth all finished 5-2 — the Ivy League doesn't have tiebreakers. Columbia set a then Division I-AA record with 44 consecutive losses from 1983-88, a mark broken by Prairie View's 80 in a row from 1989-98. Since 1971, the Lions had only six seasons with runner records before this year.
