1923 Cornell Big Red football team

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1923 Cornell Big Red football
Co-national champion (Sagarin)
ConferenceIndependent
1923 record8–0
Head coach
  • Gil Dobie (4th season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainGeorge Pfann
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
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Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Yale     8 0 0
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 0
Boston College     7 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Lafayette     6 1 2
Tufts     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Geneva     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 2 1
NYU     6 2 1
Penn State     6 2 1
Vermont     6 3 1
Brown     6 4 0
Harvard     4 3 1
Carnegie Tech     4 3 1
Penn     5 4 0
Pittsburgh     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Columbia     4 4 1
Duquesne     4 4 0
Princeton     3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Fordham     2 7 0
Boston University     1 6 0
Villanova     0 7 1
Temple     0 5 0
CCNY     0 7 0

The 1923 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1923 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record and was retroactively named as a co-national champion by Jeff Sagarin in 1978.[1] They outscored their opponents 320 to 33.[2]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30St. Bonaventure
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 41–6
October 6Susquehanna
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 84–0
October 13Williams
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 28–6
October 20Colgate
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 34–7
November 3at Dartmouth
  • Memorial Field
  • Hanover, NH (rivalry)
W 32–7
November 10at Columbia
W 35–0
November 17Johns Hopkins
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 52–0
November 29at Penn
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 14–7

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. ^ 1923 Cornell University football scores and results Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
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