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1899 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
Captain Raymond Starbuck
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
←  1898
1900 →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   10 – 0 – 1
Lafayette   –   12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   7 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   8 – 1 – 2
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   2 – 0 – 2
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 2 – 1
Western Univ. of Penn.   –   3 – 1 – 1
Columbia   –   9 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   3 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   8 – 3 – 2
Brown   –   7 – 3 – 1
New Hampshire   –   4 – 2 – 0
Vermont   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   7 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 5 – 0
Syracuse   –   4 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 0
Army   –   4 – 5 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 5 – 0
Penn State   –   4 – 6 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0
Temple   –   1 – 4 – 1
Dartmouth   –   2 – 7 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 9 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 3 – 0

The 1899 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1899 college football season. In their first season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Big Red compiled a 7–3 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 134 to 52. [1] [2] Three Cornell players received honors on the 1899 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George H. Young ( Outing-2, New York Tribune-2); halfback George B. Walbridge (Outing-2); and tackle Edward R. Alexander (Camp-3, New York Tribune-2; Leslie's Weekly-2).

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23vs. Colgate Richfield Springs, NY ( rivalry)W 42–0
September 27 Syracuse
W 17–0
September 30 Hamilton
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 12–0
October 7 Williams
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 12–0
October 14at Chicago
L 6–176,000 [3] [4]
October 21 Lehigh
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–0
November 1 Princeton
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 5–0
November 7at Columbia
W 29–0
November 11 Lafayette
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 5–6500 [5]
November 30at Penn
L 0–29

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. ^ "1899 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "Won from Cornell (part 1)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 15, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Won from Cornell (part 2)". The Sunday Inter Ocean. October 15, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ "Cornell Taken In: New York's Crack College Team Beaten by Lafayette by a Score of 6 to 5". The Times (Philadelphia). November 12, 1899. p. 15.
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