1987 Cornell Big Red football | |
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Conference | Ivy League |
1987 record | 5–5 (4–3 Ivy) |
Head coach | Maxie Baughan (5th season) |
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Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard $ | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1987 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Cornell tied for fourth in the Ivy League.
In its fifth season under head coach Maxie Baughan, the team compiled a 5–5 record and was outscored 197 to 154. Lee Reherman, Gary Rinkus and Dave Quarles were the team captains. [1]
Cornell's 4–3 conference record tied for fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red was outscored 138 to 128 by Ivy opponents. [2]
Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 19 | at No. 19 Penn | W 17–13 | 21,359 | [3] | |||
September 26 | Colgate * |
| L 3–27 | 18,000 | [4] | ||
October 3 | Lafayette * |
| W 17–12 | 9,000 | [5] | ||
October 10 | Harvard |
| W 29–17 | 21,000 | [6] | ||
October 17 | at Brown | L 15–23 | 11,200 | [7] | |||
October 24 | Dartmouth |
| W 21–14 | 10,500 | [8] | ||
October 31 | Bucknell * |
| L 6–20 | 6,000 | [9] | ||
November 7 | at Yale | L 9–28 | 20,188 | [10] | |||
November 14 | Columbia |
| W 31–20 | 7,500 | [11] | ||
November 21 | at Princeton | L 6–23 | 4,134 | [12] | |||
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