[go: up one dir, main page]

1908 Cornell Big Red football team

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

1908 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
CaptainGeorge Walder
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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

Schedule

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

References

edit
  1. ^ "1908 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Victory for Cornell: Hard Game at Ithaca". The New York Times. October 18, 1908. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Cornell's weak victory". The New York Times. October 25, 1908. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "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.