1921 Cornell Big Red football team

The 1921 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1921 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record, outscored its opponents 392 to 21, including a 110–0 win over Western Reserve on October 15,[1] and was retroactively named as the 1921 national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[2]

1921 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1921 record8–0
Head coachGil Dobie (2nd season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainWilson Dodge
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
1921 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Wash. & Jeff.      10 0 1
Lafayette      9 0 0
Cornell      8 0 0
Penn State      8 0 2
Yale      8 1 0
New Hampshire      8 1 1
Franklin & Marshall      6 1 2
Villanova      6 1 2
Carnegie Tech      7 2 0
Syracuse      7 2 0
Harvard      7 2 1
Dartmouth      6 2 1
Brown      5 3 1
Geneva      5 3 1
Pittsburgh      5 3 1
Army      6 4 0
Princeton      4 3 0
Boston College      4 3 1
Fordham      4 3 2
Penn      4 3 2
Colgate      4 4 2
Lehigh      4 4 0
NYU      2 3 3
Drexel      2 3 1
Rutgers      4 6 0
Rhode Island State      3 5 0
Columbia      2 6 0
Tufts      1 5 2
Duquesne      0 4 1

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 1St. BonaventureW 41–0
October 8Rochester
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 55–0
October 15Western Reserve
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 110–0
October 22Colgate
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 31–7
October 29Dartmouth
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 59–7
November 5at ColumbiaW 41–7
November 12Springfield (MA)
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 14–0
November 24at PennW 41–0

References

  1. 1921 Cornell University football scores and results Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
  2. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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