1997 Cornell Big Red football team

1997 Cornell Big Red football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	6–4 [a] (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach	Jim Hofher (8th season)
Captains	Chris Allen Justin Bird Scott Carroll Eric Krawczyk Rich Sheerin
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field
Seasons ←  1996 1998  →

1997 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Harvard $		7	–	0					9	–	1
Dartmouth		6	–	1					8	–	2
Brown		4	–	3					7	–	3
Cornell		4	–	3					6	–	4
Princeton		3	–	4					6	–	4
Columbia		3	–	4					4	–	6
Yale		1	–	6					2	–	8
Penn *		0	–	7					1	–	9
$ – Conference champion * Standings reflect Penn's forfeit of five conference wins due to use of an ineligible player

The 1997 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Cornell tied for third in the Ivy League.

In its eighth and final season under head coach Jim Hofher, the team compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents 269 to 261. Chris Allen, Justin Bird, Scott Carroll, Eric Krawczyk and Rich Sheerin were the team captains. ^[1]

Despite a 4–3 conference record that tied for third in the Ivy League standings, the Big Red were outscored by Ivy opponents, 170 to 145. ^[2] Cornell originally finished in a tie for fourth place, but after the season ended, third-place Penn forfeited all of its league wins, dropping to last place and allowing Brown and Cornell to move up to third.

Cornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	Princeton	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 14–10	7,127	[3]
September 27	Colgate *	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 38–44 OT	11,700	[4]
October 4	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 20–24	6,641	[5]
October 11	Harvard	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 9–34	5,287	[6]
October 18	Lafayette *	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 41–34 2OT	4,812	[7]
October 25	at Fordham *	Coffey Field Bronx, NY	W 45–13	878	[8]
November 1	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	L 12–37	2,557	[9]
November 8	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 37–10	3,995	[10]
November 15	Columbia	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 33–22	1,158	[11]
November 22	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 20–33 [a]	5,918	[12] [13]
*Non-conference game Homecoming

Note

^  a: In January 1998, Penn agreed to forfeit its Ivy League wins from 1997 after star defensive tackle Mitch Marrow was declared ineligible as a part-time student. ^[13] Cornell's ^[1] and Penn's ^[14] record books regard their 1997 meeting, a 33–20 Penn victory on the field, as a Cornell win, as do the 1997 win–loss records and season standings in the Ivy League record book. ^[2]

References

1. "Football Record Book" (PDF). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University . Retrieved July 3, 2020.
2. "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. p. 37. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
3. McShea, Keith (September 22, 1997). "Big Red Holds Those Tigers". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
4. McShea, Keith (September 29, 1997). "A Wild One on Homecoming: Colgate Flies Past Cornell in Overtime Shootout, 44-38". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
5. McShea, Keith (October 6, 1997). "A Green Day in Hanover: Dartmouth Rallies Past CU". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
6. Concannon, Joe (October 12, 1997). "Harvard Gets Some Revenge". Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. pp. C16, C17 – via Newspapers.com.
7. McShea, Keith (October 20, 1997). "Win Has Red Smiling Again". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
8. McShea, Keith (October 27, 1997). "Opportunistic Red Hammers Fordham". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
9. McShea, Keith (November 3, 1997). "Just a Bad Day: Red Falls, 37-12, at Brown". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
10. McShea, Keith (November 27, 1997). "Krawczyk, Big Red Take It to Yale, 37-10". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
11. McShea, Keith (November 17, 1997). "Sun Shines for Red in Victory". The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, N.Y. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
12. Ford, Bob (November 23, 1997). "Playing for Pride, Penn Tops Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. p. C8 – via Newspapers.com.
13. Moran, Edward (January 3, 1998). "Penn Forfeits 5 Wins in Marrow Case". Philadelphia Daily News . Philadelphia, Pa. p. 39 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Football Fact Book: All-Time Year-by-Year". Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania. p. 159. Retrieved June 20, 2020.