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1919 Cornell Big Red football team

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1919 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
CaptainFritz Shiverick
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1917
1920 →
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 1
Penn State     7 1 0
Swarthmore     7 1 0
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Colgate     5 1 1
New Hampshire     7 2 0
Lafayette     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 0
Williams     6 2 0
Syracuse     8 3 0
Penn     6 2 1
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 3 0
Princeton     4 2 1
Geneva     4 2 2
Army     6 3 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Holy Cross     5 3 0
Rutgers     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Villanova     5 3 1
Brown     5 4 1
Bucknell     5 4 1
NYU     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 0
Columbia     2 4 3
Cornell     3 5 0
Vermont     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 4 2
Tufts     2 5 0
Buffalo     0 5 1
Rhode Island State     0 8 1
Drexel     0 4 0

The 1919 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1919 college football season. In their first season under head coach John H. Rush, the Big Red compiled a 3–5 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 95 to 34.[1][2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4 OberlinW 9–0
October 11 Williams
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 3–0
October 18 Colgate
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
L 0–21
October 25vs. DartmouthL 0–9
November 1 Lafayette
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 2–21
November 8 Carnegie Tech
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 20–0
November 15 Penn State
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 0–20
November 27at PennL 0–2425,000[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Cornell Yearly Results (1915–1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "1919 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Penn Grid Team Gives Thanks By Bumping Cornell: Colorful Crowd Sees the Quakers Win Thanksgiving Day Game, 24-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 28, 1919. pp. 1, 16 – via Newspapers.com.