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Although there is some doubt whether the 1940 Cornell forfeit was official according to NCAA rules, the game is regarded as a 3–0 Dartmouth victory, instead of a 7–3 triumph by Cornell. [ 3 ] This was described in press accounts as the only time in the history of football that a game was decided off the field.
The Thanksgiving Cornell–Penn football game, broadcast on national radio before the television era, attracted huge crowds to Franklin Field in Philadelphia. [1] The 1931 game attracted a reported 70,000, and earned a story on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer along with a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of every detail of the game. [6]
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 most recent, a ten game streak from 2009 to 2018, was snapped by a 20–17 Cornell victory that denied Dartmouth a chance at an outright league title. [5] Ranked #12, Dartmouth was the highest ranked opponent that Cornell had defeated since a 23–14 victory over Ohio State during the Big Red's 1939 national championship season . [ 6 ]
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities , which explored the origins of nationalism .
Just a decade ago, this writer noted that a Columbia versus Cornell matchup was “The Worst College Football Game In The Worst College Football Town.” Back in 2014, an 0-8 Columbia went up ...
The 1961 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University as a member of the Ivy League during the 1961 college football season. In its first season under head coach Tom Harp , the team compiled a 3–6 record (2–5 in conference games), finished in sixth place in the Ivy League, and outscored ...
The Big Red were led by sixth-year head coach Jack Musick and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red finished the season 8–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to win Cornell's first-ever Ivy League championship, sharing the title with Dartmouth, the only team to defeat the 1971 Big Red. [1] [2]