Football will face perhaps the toughest challenge of its perfect season thus far, traveling to Hanover for a showdown with co-Ivy League leader Dartmouth.

Football extended its magical run to start the season with an improbable, come-from-behind 34-31 win over Penn to extend its record to 5-0.

Football will return to Morningside Heights and take on Penn for Columbia’s Homecoming this Saturday, looking to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 1996.

Shortly before football’s 28-24 victory over Princeton, several Columbia University Marching Band members kneeled as the national anthem played, in line with a number of similar protests sparked by athletes across the country.

Just twelve hours after junior men’s tennis star Victor Pham secured a runner-up finish at the Oracle ITA Masters in Malibu, California two Sundays ago, the political science major walked into his 8:40 a.m. American politics class, ready for another day as a student.

After Columbia’s thrilling 28-24 victory over the defending Ivy League champion Princeton, the Lions sit at 3-0 overall for the first time since 1996, when then-seniors and future NFL players Marcellus Wiley, CC ’97, and Rory Wilfork, CC ’97, led the Light Blue to an 8-2 record.

Columbia (1-0) is set to battle Georgetown (1-1) in the third annual Lou Little Cup on Saturday, hoping to extend its winning streak to three games dating to last season.

For the first time in 35 years, a Columbia alum graced the courts at Wimbledon in the tournament’s main draw.