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1908 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1–1
Head coach
Captain George Walder
Home stadiumPercy Field
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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

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

Schedule

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

References

  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.
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