1976 Cornell Big Red football | |
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Conference | Ivy League |
Record | 2–7 (2–5 Ivy) |
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Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brown + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dartmouth | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Penn | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1976 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University in the Ivy League during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In its second and final season under head coach George Seifert, the Big Red compiled a 2–7 record and was outscored 177 to 109. Team captains were chosen on a game-by-game basis, [1] and home games were played on campus at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.
Cornell's 2–5 conference record placed it in a four-way tie for fifth place, at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. The Big Red were outscored 131 to 75 by Ivy opponents. [2]
With an overall record of 3–15 (.167), Seifert was fired days after the final game, [3] a 31–13 win over Penn, [4] and returned to Stanford as the defensive backs coach under new head coach Bill Walsh.
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 18 | Princeton |
| L 0–3 | 14,000 | [5] | ||
September 25 | Colgate* |
| L 20–25 | 10,000 | [6] | ||
October 2 | at Rutgers* | L 14–21 | 16,000 | [7] | |||
October 9 | at Harvard | W 9–3 | 8,000 | [8] | |||
October 16 | Brown |
| L 12–28 | 12,000 | [9] | ||
October 23 | Dartmouth |
| L 0–35 | 11,000 | [10] | ||
October 30 | at Yale | L 6–14 | 22,519 | [11] | |||
November 6 | at Columbia | L 17–35 | 5,120 | [12] | |||
November 13 | Penn |
| W 31–13 | 9,000 | [4] [13] | ||
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