1915 Cornell Big Red football team

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]

1915 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Parke H. Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1915 record9–0
Head coachAlbert Sharpe (4th season)
CaptainCharles Barrett
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
1915 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Cornell      9 0 0
Pittsburgh      8 0 0
Columbia      5 0 0
Harvard      8 1 0
Carnegie Tech      7 1 0
Rutgers      7 1 0
Villanova      6 1 0
Washington & Jefferson      8 1 1
Colgate      5 1 0
Syracuse      9 1 2
Dartmouth      7 1 1
Tufts      5 1 2
Penn State      7 2 0
Lafayette      8 3 0
Princeton      6 2 0
Franklin & Marshall      6 2 0
Temple      3 1 1
Wesleyan      6 3 0
Allegheny      5 3 0
Swarthmore      5 3 0
Army      5 3 1
Lehigh      6 4 0
Holy Cross      3 2 2
Brown      5 4 1
Buffalo      4 4 0
Fordham      4 4 0
NYU      4 4 1
Middlebury      3 4 2
Muhlenberg      4 5 0
Yale      4 5 0
Boston College      3 4 0
Penn      3 5 2
WPI      3 5 1
Carlisle      3 6 2
Rhode Island State      3 5 0
New Hampshire      3 6 1
Gettysburg      3 6 0
Rochester      3 6 0
Bucknell      2 6 3
Williams      1 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 28GettysburgW 13–0
October 2Oberlin
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 34–7
October 9Williams
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 46–6
October 16Bucknell
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 41–0
October 23at Harvard
W 10–0
October 30VPI
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 45–0
November 6at MichiganW 34–722,000
November 13Washington and Lee
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 40–21
November 25at PennW 24–925,000

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 Archived October 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
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