1915 Cornell Big Red football team

1915 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Parke H. Davis)
Conference Independent
1915 record 9–0
Head coach Albert Sharpe (4th season)
Home stadium Schoellkopf Field
1915 NCAA independents football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell   –    9 –0 –0
Pittsburgh   –    8 –0 –0
Dubuque   –    7 –0 –0
Washington   –    7 –0 –0
Washington State   –    7 –0 –0
Carleton   –    6 –0 –0
Columbia   –    5 –0 –0
Georgia Tech   –    7 –0 –1
Wabash   –    7 –0 –1
Harvard   –    8 –1 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    7 –1 –0
Notre Dame   –    7 –1 –0
Ouachita Baptist   –    7 –1 –0
Rutgers   –    7 –1 –0
Grinnell   –    6 –1 –0
Holy Trinity   –    6 –1 –0
Spring Hill   –    6 –1 –0
Villanova   –    6 –1 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    8 –1 –1
Colgate   –    5 –1 –0
Michigan Agricultural   –    5 –1 –0
Western State   –    5 –1 –0
Syracuse   –    9 –1 –2
Dartmouth   –    7 –1 –1
West Virginia   –    5 –1 –1
Hawaii   –    4 –1 –1
First District   –    4 –1 –1
Tufts   –    5 –1 –2
Penn State   –    7 –2 –0
Oregon   –    7 –2 –0
Lafayette   –    8 –3 –0
Princeton   –    6 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    6 –2 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    6 –2 –0
New Mexico   –    3 –1 –0
VMI   –    6 –2 –1
New Mexico A&M   –    5 –2 –0
Temple   –    3 –1 –1
Millikin   –    5 –2 –1
Delaware   –    6 –3 –0
Maryland   –    6 –3 –0
Nebraska Wesleyan   –    6 –3 –0
Louisiana Normal College   –    4 –2 –0
Wesleyan   –    6 –3 –0
North Texas State Normal   –    4 –2 –1
Michigan State Normal   –    4 –2 –1
Montana Agricultural   –    4 –2 –1
Oregon Agricultural   –    5 –3 –0
Allegheny   –    5 –3 –0
Arizona   –    5 –3 –0
Doane   –    5 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –    5 –3 –0
California   –    8 –5 –0
Army   –    5 –3 –1
Marquette   –    4 –2 –2
Lehigh   –    6 –4 –0
Tempe Normal   –    3 –2 –0
University Farm   –    3 –2 –0
Southwest Texas State   –    5 –3 –2
Jamestown   –    3 –2 –1
Penn (IA)   –    4 –3 –0
Davidson   –    4 –3 –1
Michigan   –    4 –3 –1
Brown   –    5 –4 –1
Creighton   –    5 –4 –1
Buffalo   –    4 –4 –0
Fordham   –    4 –4 –0
Holy Cross   –    3 –2 –2
Knox (IL)   –    1 –1 –0
Middle Tennessee   –    3 –3 –1
Mississippi Normal   –    4 –4 –0
Saint Louis   –    3 –3 –1
Haskell   –    3 –3 –0
NYU   –    4 –4 –1
Montana   –    2 –2 –2
Presbyterian   –    4 –4 –0
St. Thomas (MN)   –    2 –2 –1
Willamette   –    2 –2 –1
Middlebury   –    3 –4 –2
Henderson-Brown   –    3 –4 –1
Muhlenberg   –    4 –5 –0
TCU   –    4 –5 –0
Yale   –    4 –5 –0
Boston College   –    3 –4 –0
Wake Forest   –    3 –4 –0
USC   –    3 –4 –0
WPI   –    3 –5 –1
Navy   –    3 –5 –1
Carlisle   –    3 –6 –2
Penn   –    3 –5 –2
Rhode Island State   –    3 –5 –0
New Hampshire   –    3 –6 –1
Gettysburg   –    3 –6 –0
Hanover   –    2 –4 –0
Rochester   –    3 –6 –0
Bucknell   –    2 –6 –3
Lawrence   –    2 –5 –0
Earlham   –    2 –6 –0
Idaho   –    1 –4 –1
Detroit   –    1 –5 –0
Butler   –    1 –6 –0
Williams   –    1 –7 –0
William & Mary   –    0 –9 –1

The 1915 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1915 college football season. The team won all nine games and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion (with Pittsburgh) by Parke H. Davis.[1] Cornell outscored their opponents 287 to 50.[2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 25 Gettysburg* Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 13–0   -
October 2 Oberlin Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 34–7    
October 9 Williams Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 46–6    
October 16 Bucknell Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 41–0    
October 23 at Harvard Harvard Stadium • Allston, MA W 10–0    
October 30 VPI Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 45–0    
November 6 at Michigan Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI W 34–7   22,000
November 13 Washington and Lee Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY W 40–21    
November 25 at Penn Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA W 24-9   25,000

References

  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ 1915 Cornell University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
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