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The first mascot was an American black bear introduced in 1915 by the Cornell University Athletic Association. Three more live bears over the course of approximately two decades also made appearances at Cornell until the live bear was replaced by costumed students some years later. Touchdown appears on the logo for Cornell Athletics, and is ...
Schoellkopf Field is a 21,500-capacity stadium at Cornell University's Ithaca campus that opened in 1915 and is used for the Cornell Big Red football, sprint football and lacrosse teams.
Cornell's teams did not have an official name until after 1905, when a recent graduate, Romeyn Berry '04, wrote lyrics for a new football song. The lyrics included the words "the big, red team," and the nickname stuck. [2] Cornell does not have an official mascot; however, the bear has long been a symbol of
The 2010 tournament was the Big Red's fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament.Their combined record is 2–6. In 2010, the men's basketball team defeated fifth-seeded Temple followed by fourth-seeded Wisconsin to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, becoming the first Ivy League team to advance that far since Penn's Final Four appearance in 1979.
Through the 2024 season, the Cornell Big Red have won 659, lost 561, and tied 34 regular season games. [2] From its first intercollegiate football game in 1887 against Union College through the 1955 season, Cornell played as an independent program before joining the newly formed Ivy League conference for the 1956 season. As members of the Ivy ...
The 2024 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University as a member of the Ivy League during the 2024 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by first-year head coach Dan Swanstrom and played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York .
Since the introduction of the Ivy League lacrosse tournament in 2010 Cornell has won the tournament twice, in 2011 and 2018. The Big Red have appeared in the NCAA lacrosse tournament 30 times. Cornell has won the three championships and were runner up five times, most recently in 2022 when they lost to Maryland 9-7. [2]
The Cornell Big Red baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Ivy League, which is part of NCAA Division I. Cornell's first baseball team was fielded in 1869 and participated in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League (EIBL) until