NEW YORK—Former Columbia football players Anders Hill '18CC, Ted Gregory '74CC, and Robert "Doc" Lincoln '49, along with Columbia SID Emeritus Kevin DeMarrais '64CC will serve as panelists for the discussion focusing on the history of Columbia Football which will be held on Thursday, Oct. 17 from 6-8:30 p.m. ET at Columbia University's Butler Library. More information on this event is available at this link.
 
The panel discussion and reception is being held to mark the official opening of "Roar, Lion, Roar: A Celebration of Columbia Football," an exhibit in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's Chang Octagon on Butler Library's sixth floor. Hosted by moderator Lance Medow, the panel discussion will take place from 6-7 p.m. in Butler Library Room 203. Following the discussion, the event will culminate with a reception on the Library's sixth floor, where attendees can view the "Roar, Lion, Roar" exhibit and mingle.
 
Registration is required for the event and can be completed by CLICKING HERE. Admission is free with RSVP.
 
The event will be filmed and live-streamed on the Columbia University Libraries Facebook page at this link. Following the event, Columbia Athletics will broadcast the live stream on a tape-delayed basis on its website, www.gocolumbialions.com.
 
About the panelists:
 
ANDERS HILL
Over his four-year, 31-game collegiate career, ranked among Columbia's all-time career leaders in several statistics: No. 5 in pass completions (399 on 645 passes), No. 5 in passing yardage (4,612), No. 6 in touchdown passes (27) and No. 5 in total offense (5,1777 yards) … Also rushed for 565 yards on 299 carries and six touchdowns … Responsible for 33 total touchdowns (27 passing, six rushing) in career … Four-year letterwinner from 2014-17 … Two-time team Most Valuable Player selection … Served as team captain as a senior in 2017 … Two-time Fall Academic All-Ivy League selection … Started 18 career games and guided Columbia to an 11-7 overall record as a starting quarterback, the best record for a Lions starting quarterback in over 70 years … Led Lions to an 8-2 overall, 5-2 Ivy League record and second place finish in the conference, the program's best season in 21 years (since 1996) … Second Team All-Ivy League selection after setting a school-record for season completion percentage (63.4 percent) while completing 206 of 325 passes for 2,407 yards and 16 touchdowns and only 10 interceptions in 2017. … One of 37 national Bill Campbell Trophy semifinalists … 2018 Columbia College graduate.
 
TED GREGORY
Inducted into the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame (Class of 2012) … One of the best defensive backs in school history … Two-time First Team All-Ivy League honoree (1972, 1973) … Two-time All-America honorable mention selection … Named to the All-Ivy League Silver Anniversary Team, which tabbed the best players in the conference from 1954-79 … Served as captain of the 1973 team as a senior … Earned three letters from 1971-73 … Ranked among all-time Columbia career leaders in interceptions (9) and interception return yards (176) and in season interceptions (5 in 1971) and career leaders in punt returns (32) and punt return yardage (238) … Concluded career with nine interceptions for 176 interception return yards and one touchdown, 32 punt returns for 238 return yards and 11 kickoff returns for 227 yards … In first career Ivy League game vs. Princeton, returned an interception 56 yards for a touchdown … Played for Columbia head coach Frank Navarro … 1974 Columbia College graduate.
 
ROBERT "DOC" LINCOLN
One of two living players who played on Columbia's 1947 football team, the other is Gene Rossides … Over the years, recruited 70-plus football players from New England to Columbia University in the 1960s through 1980s, including more than a half-dozen who became captains or co-captains of the team … At Columbia, played in front of 25,000-to-70,000 fans in leather helmets with no facemasks … Top two-way player who saw action on both offense as a running back and on defense at linebacker … Played his freshman season at Columbia in 1944, then abruptly left to fight in World War II … Returned after the war to play two more years at Columbia, then went on to complete three years at Harvard Medical School … Concluded his career with 11 rushes for 51 yards and a touchdown on offense and intercepted three passes on defense … Three-year letterman in 1944, 1946 and 1947 … Played under coach Lou Little both during and after World War II … Played on Columbia's 1947 team that famously upset No. 6 ranked Army, 21-20 on a pass from quarterback Gene Rossides to Bill Swiacki … The win halted Army's legendary 32-game unbeaten streak … Lincoln played on Columbia teams that compiled a 15-11 overall record.
 
KEVIN DEMARRAIS
Inducted into the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame (Class of 2016) … Has spent over 40 years observing Columbia Athletics and spent 19 years from 1965-84 as Columbia's Sports Information Director … Earned numerous awards promoting Columbia's teams, including the National Award for Editorial Excellence for the Best College Football Program/Magazine six times and another for Outstanding Special Project for the Football Centennial Promotion in 1971 … Publicity coordinator for the Ivy League from 1978-84, served three terms as chairman of the League's Director of Sports Information, and is a former president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors … As an undergraduate at Columbia, he wrote for the New York Times and was a three-year starter on the lightweight football team ... 1964 graduate of Columbia College.
 
LANCE MEDOW, MODERATOR
For the last 13 years, served as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for Columbia Athletics contests airing on ESPN+ and SNY for football, men's basketball, women's basketball and baseball … Since 2008, worked for the New York Giants, hosting several shows and features for the team's website, and for the last 7 years served as the Pre/Half/Post Game Show host for the WFAN Giants Radio Network ... For the last 11 years, hosted various programs across the lineup of Sirius XM sports channels including Mad Dog Sports Radio, NFL Radio, NBA Radio, Fantasy Sports Radio and various college conference channels … Since 2008, served as a play-by-play announcer and studio host for Westwood One Sports where he's covered college basketball, college football, the NFL, NHL, PGA Tour and the Olympics.
 
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