1915 Cornell Big Red football team

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1915 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Parke H. Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1915 record9–0
Head coach
  • Albert Sharpe (4th season)
CaptainCharles Barrett
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1914
1916 →
1915 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf     Overall
Team W   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
Geneva   –       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
Vermont   –       1 – 4 – 2
Williams   –       1 – 7 – 0

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]

The 1915 team was known as The Big Red Machine, defeating every opponent by more than a touchdown.[3] Standout players included Hall of Famers Charley Barrett (team captain) and Murray Shelton.[3] Barrett is often cited as the best quarterback of this decade.[3]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 28Gettysburg
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 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
  • Harvard Stadium
  • Boston, MA
W 10–0
October 30VPI
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 45–0
November 6at Michigan
  • Ferry Field
  • Ann Arbor, MI
W 34–722,000
November 13Washington and Lee
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 40–21
November 25at Penn
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 24–925,000
1915 Big Red players
Benedict
Hoffman
Miller
Mueller

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.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "1915 College Football National Championship". TipTop 25. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

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