1921 Cornell Big Red football team

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1921 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
1921 record8–0
Head coach
  • Gil Dobie (2nd season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainWilson Dodge
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1920
1922 →
1921 Eastern college football independents records
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington & Jefferson   –   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
Boston University   –   6 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   5 – 3 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 3 – 1
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 3 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
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
Vermont   –   3 – 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

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]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 1St. Bonaventure
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 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 Columbia
W 41–7
November 12Springfield (MA)
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 14–0
November 24at Penn
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 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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