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1895 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4–1
Head coach
Captain Clint Wyckoff
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
←  1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   14 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   10 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   6 – 2 – 2
Army   –   5 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   8 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   6 – 3 – 0
Amherst   –   6 – 5 – 0
Brown   –   7 – 6 – 1
Carlisle   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 3
Cornell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Rutgers   –   3 – 4 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 3 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 2
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
MIT   –   1 – 4 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   1 – 4 – 0
Massachusetts   –   1 – 5 – 0
Western Univ. Penn.   –   1 – 6 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1895 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1895 college football season. In their second season under head coach Marshall Newell, the Big Red compiled a 3–4–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 162 to 82. [1] [2] Quarterback and team captain Clint Wyckoff was selected by both Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney as a first-team player on the 1895 College Football All-America Team and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26 Syracuse
W 8–0
October 5 Penn State
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
T 0–01,000
October 12 Western Reserve
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 12–4
October 19 Lafayette
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 0–6 [3]
October 26at Harvard
L 0–25
November 9vs. Princeton
L 0–6 [4]
November 163:20 p.m. Brown
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–4 [5]
November 28at Penn
L 2–4620,000 [6]

References

  1. ^ "Cornell Yearly Results (1895–1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "1895 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Lafayette Beats Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 20, 1895. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Princeton, 6; Cornell, 0". The New York Times. November 10, 1895. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Lost By Brown". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. November 17, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "'Varsity, 46 Cornell, 2: Pennsylvania Ends the season With a Grand Victory". The Philadelphia Times. November 29, 1895. pp. 1, 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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