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American college football season
1897
Cornell Big Red football |
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Conference | Independent |
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Record | 5–3–1 |
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Head coach | |
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Captain | William McKeever |
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Home stadium | Percy Field |
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The 1897 Cornell Big Red football team was an
American football team that represented
Cornell University during the
1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach
Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 133 to 42.
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[2] Three Cornell players received honors on the
1897 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George Young, Cornell (
Walter Camp-2,
Outing-1); end William McKeever (Camp-2); and end Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (Camp-3).
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Schedule
References
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"Cornell Yearly Results (1895–1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from
the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
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"1897 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
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^ "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. December 8, 1897.
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"A Brief Review of the Football Season" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. January 1898.
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"Tigers Badly Scared: Princeton Went to Ithaca Expecting to Have an Easy Time". The World (New York). October 24, 1897. p. 11 – via
Newspapers.com.
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"Harvard Wins: Crimson Football Team Defeats Cornell's Brave Warriors, 24 to 5". Boston Post. October 31, 1897. pp. 1, 3 – via
NewspaperARCHIVE.
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"Cornell Gives Penn A Hard Fight For Victory".
The Times.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 26, 1897. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via
Newspapers.com
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"Hard Fight For Victory (continued)".
The Times.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 26, 1897. p. 7. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via
Newspapers.com
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