1894 Cornell Big Red football team

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1894 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
1894 record6–4–1
Head coach
CaptainPop Warner
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     16 0 0
Penn     12 0 0
Villanova     1 0 0
Penn State     6 0 1
Harvard     11 2 0
Geneva     5 1 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Temple     4 1 0
Pittsburgh College     7 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 1
Brown     10 5 0
Bucknell     5 3 0
Colgate     2 1 1
Army     3 2 0
Frankin & Marshall     6 4 0
Cornell     6 4 1
Amherst     7 5 0
Trinity (CT)     4 3 0
Syracuse     6 5 0
Tufts     6 5 0
Massachusetts     3 3 0
Swarthmore     5 5 0
Western Univ. Penn     1 1 0
Lafayette     5 6 0
New Hampshire     2 3 0
Rutgers     4 6 0
Lehigh     5 9 0
Williams     1 3 0
Drexel     1 3 0
MIT     1 4 0
Boston College     1 6 0
Carlisle     1 8 0
NYU     0 3 0
Wesleyan     0 5 0

The 1894 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1894 college football season. In their first season under head coach Marshall Newell, the Big Red compiled a 6–4–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 178 to 58.[1][2] Pop Warner was the team's captain.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Syracuse
W 39–0
October 6Union (NY)
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 37–0
October 13Lafayette
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 24–0
October 20vs. PrincetonL 4–12
October 27vs. Harvard
  • Manhattan Field
  • New York, NY
L 12–228,000[3][4]
November 3Michigan
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 22–01,000
November 6at Crescent Athletic ClubW 22–03,000[5]
November 10vs. WilliamsAlbany, NYT 0–02,000[6]
November 17at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)L 0–6
November 242:30 p.m.vs. Michigan
L 4–124,000
November 29Lehigh
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 10–6

Game summaries[]

Michigan[]

On November 24, Cornell lost to Michigan, 12–4.[7] The result was the first victory by a Michigan football team against one of the elite Eastern football teams, and "the Michigan men went wild" as blue and yellow were "all the colors that could be seen."[8] The Detroit Free Press filled its front page with a lengthy account of the game under the headline, "GLORIOUS!", and proclaimed the start of "halcyon days at the university" and opined that "the day of logy teams, slow signalling and dumb playing at the university are but pages in history now."[9] The Free Press predicted that the victory would mark a turning point in the popularity of football in the West, such that "it will become the only acknowledged game of the fall, and its devotees will outnumber those of any other game."[9] The University of Michigan yearbook, The Palladium, wrote: "The enthusiasm of that day at Detroit transformed our foot ball team from the practically 'backwoods' organization that they were to skillful, scientific players of the great American game of foot ball. Let the good work go on."[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Cornell Yearly Results (1890–1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "1894 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. ^ "It Was Work: Cornell Put 12 Against Harvard's 22". Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  4. ^ "Blocked Punts Enabled Cornell to Score Against Harvard: Men From Ithaca Put Up a Very Foxy Game". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1894. p. 1 – via NewspaperArchive.
  5. ^ "Cornell, 22; Crescent, 0". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 7, 1894. p. 6. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. ^ "Cornell-Williams, 0-0". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, New York. November 11, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. ^ "Michigan-Cornell Game". Logansport Journal. 1894-11-25.
  8. ^ "Joy in Michigan University". Logansport Daily Pharos. 1894-11-26.
  9. ^ a b "GLORIOUS! Michigan Victorious on the Gridiron Field; Defeating Cornell by Honest and Hard Playing". Detroit Free Press. November 25, 1894. p. 1.
  10. ^ The Palladium, Vol. 37 (pages unnumbered).
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