1971 Cornell Big Red football team

1971 Cornell Big Red football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	8–1 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Jack Musick (6th season)
Captain	Tom Albright, Bill Ellis
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field
Seasons ←  1970 1972  →

1971 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Dartmouth +	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	1	–	0
Cornell +	6	–	1	–	0			8	–	1	–	0
Columbia	5	–	2	–	0			6	–	3	–	0
Harvard	4	–	3	–	0			5	–	4	–	0
Yale	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
Princeton	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	0
Penn	1	–	6	–	0			2	–	7	–	0
Brown	0	–	7	–	0			0	–	9	–	0
+ – Conference co-champions

The 1971 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Ivy League. 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]}

The team was led offensively by future NFL running back Ed Marinaro; during the 1971 season, Marinaro capped his college football career by setting a national collegiate record for career rushing yards at 4,715, which stood until being broken in 1976 by Tony Dorsett of the Pittsburgh Panthers. ^[3] Marinaro won first team All-American honors and finished in a close second in voting for the Heisman Trophy. ^[4] On October 30, 1971, Cornell saw its largest home football crowd in the post-1970 era with 23,000 in attendance at Schoellkopf Field (which had a capacity of 25,597) for the day's rivalry match-up against Columbia. ^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Colgate *	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 38–20	16,500	[5]
October 2	at Rutgers *	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 31–17	15,000	[6]
October 9	Princeton	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 19–8	22,500	[7]
October 16	Harvard	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 21–16	20,000	[8]
October 23	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 31–10	35,168	[9]
October 30	Columbia	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 24–21	23,000	[10]
November 6	Brown	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 21–7	15,000	[11]
November 13	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 14–24	20,816	[12]
November 20	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 41–13	43,687	[13]
*Non-conference game

Roster

1971 Cornell Big Red football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 10 Barrett Rosser Jr HB 12 John Moresko Sr RB 44 Ed Marinaro Sr WR 81 Geoge Milosevic Jr	Defense Pos. # Name Class DE 86 William Ellis Sr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class K 13 John Killian Sr	Head coach Jack Musick Coordinators/assistant coaches Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt Roster

References

1. "1971 Cornell Big Red Stats". Sports Reference. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
2. "1971 Football Schedule". Cornell Athletics. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
3. "Jack Musick, 52, Guided Cornell's Football Team To Ivy Crown in 1971". The New York Times. 29 November 1977. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
4. "Over A Century of Tradition" (PDF). Cornell Football Association. Retrieved 12 October 2017.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
5. Van Sickle, Kenny (September 27, 1971). "Colgate Defeated: Cornell Goes Back to Marinaro Country". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Van Sickle, Kenny (October 4, 1971). "Cornell Grinds Out Win over Rutgers". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
7. McGowen, Deane (October 10, 1971). "Cornell Turns Back Princeton; Big Red Triumphs, 19-8". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
8. Werden, Lincoln A. (October 17, 1971). "Cornell Subdues Harvard by 21-16". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
9. Wallace, William N. (October 24, 1971). "Cornell Tops Yale, 31-10; Marinaro Excels". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
10. White, Gordon S. Jr. (October 31, 1971). "Marinaro Breaks Record as Cornell Wins, 24-21; Columbia Foiled". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
11. Werden, Lincoln A. (November 7, 1971). "Cornell Tops Ivy by Beating Brown". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
12. Amdur, Neil (November 14, 1971). "Dartmouth Tops Cornell, 24-14; Ivy Lead Shared". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
13. White, Gordon S. Jr. (November 21, 1971). "Cornell and Dartmouth Win and Share Ivy Title; Penn 41-13 Loser". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.

External links

• Cornell vs. Harvard (Oct. 16, 1971) Archived 2017-10-12 at the Wayback Machine game footage from the Harvard Video Archive