1908 Cornell Big Red football team

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1908 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
Captain George Walder
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
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1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn  – 11 –0 –1
Harvard  – 9 –0 –1
Cornell  – 7 –1 –1
Fordham  – 5 –1 –0
Yale  – 7 –1 –1
Dartmouth  – 6 –1 –1
Carlisle  – 10 –2 –1
Washington & Jefferson  – 10 –2 –1
Army  – 6 –1 –2
Pittsburgh  – 8 –3 –0
Lafayette  – 6 –2 –2
Princeton  – 5 –2 –3
Syracuse  – 6 –3 –1
Brown  – 5 –3 –1
Temple  – 3 –2 –1
Colgate  – 4 –3 –0
Lehigh  – 4 –3 –0
Dickinson  – 5 –4 –0
Amherst  – 3 –3 –2
Holy Cross  – 4 –4 –0
Penn State  – 5 –5 –0
Vermont  – 3 –3 –3
Wesleyan  – 3 –4 –2
Springfield Training School  – 3 –4 –1
NYU  – 2 –3 –2
Frankin & Marshall  – 4 –6 –1
Bucknell  – 3 –5 –2
Rutgers  – 3 –5 –1
Boston College  – 2 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech  – 3 –7 –0
Geneva  – 1 –6 –2
Tufts  – 1 –6 –1
Villanova  – 1 –6 –0
Drexel  – 0 –7 –0

The 1908 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1908 college football season. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3 Hamilton
W 11–0
October 10 Oberlin
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 23–10
October 17 Colgate
W 9–0
October 24 Vermont
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 9–0 [2]
October 31 Penn State
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 10–4
November 7at Amherst
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–0
November 14at Chicago
T 6–6 [3] [4]
November 21 Trinity (CT)
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 18–6
November 26at Penn
L 4–17 [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "1908 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results".
  2. ↑ "Cornell's weak victory". The New York Times. October 25, 1908. Retrieved June 19, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ I.E. Sanborn (November 15, 1908). "Maroons in Tie With Ithacans: Chicago and Cornell Score Six Points Each in Great Gridiron Battle". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. pp. 15–16 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Frank B. Hutchinson Jr. (November 15, 1908). "Chicago Ties With Cornell by Great Last Minute Rally". The Inter Ocean. pp. 21–22 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Penn Defeats Cornell in Grandly Played Game by Score of 17 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1908. pp. 1, 12 – via Newspapers.com.
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