1939 Cornell Big Red football team

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1939 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Litkenhous)
Co-national champion (Sagarin)
Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 4
1939 record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainVincent Eichler, Malvern Baker, Ken Brown
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1938
1940 →
1939 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
No. 10 Duquesne   –   8 – 0 – 1
Scranton   –   7 – 0 – 2
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
La Salle   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 1 – 2
No. 11 Boston College   –   9 – 2 – 0
No. 17 Fordham   –   6 – 2 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 2 – 0
Boston University   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Dartmouth   –   5 – 3 – 1
Hofstra   –   4 – 3 – 0
NYU   –   5 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   5 – 4 – 0
Harvard   –   4 – 4 – 0
Manhattan   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Syracuse   –   3 – 3 – 2
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 2
Tufts   –   3 – 4 – 1
Yale   –   3 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 4 – 2
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 5 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 2
Massachusetts State   –   2 – 5 – 2
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 7 – 0
CCNY   –   1 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   0 – 7 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1939 college football season. They finished with an 8–0 record and were named national champion by Litkenhous and co-national champion by Sagarin.[1] They outscored their opponents 197 to 52.[2] After capping off a perfect season, Cornell declined a bid to the Rose Bowl so that the football players could catch up on their schoolwork.[3] The Big Red finished the season ranked #4 in the Associated Press's final poll.[4]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7Syracuse
W 19–624,000
October 14at Princeton
W 20–7
October 21Penn StateNo. 12
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 47–05,099
October 28at No. 4 Ohio StateNo. 7
W 23–1449,583
November 4ColumbiaNo. 3
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 13–715,000[5]
November 11ColgateNo. 5
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 14–12
November 18DartmouthNo. 4
W 35–6
November 30at PennNo. 3
W 26–0
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ 2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2017. p. 112. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  2. ^ 1939 Cornell University football scores and results Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  3. ^ 1939 Champions of All Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Cornell Football Association. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
  4. ^ 1939 Cornell Big Red stats. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  5. ^ Richardson, William D. (November 5, 1939). "Blocking of Kick Enables Cornell to Triumph, 13-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
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