1890 Cornell Big Red football team

The 1890 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1890 college football season. The team compiled an 8–4 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 342 to 134.[1][2] Cornell's 77–0 loss to Harvard holds the record as the worst defeat in Cornell football history. In second place is a 66–0 loss to Princeton in 2018, 128 years later.[3]

1890 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
1890 record8–4
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEdwin Yawger
1890 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard      11 0 0
Yale      13 1 0
Princeton      11 1 1
Franklin & Marshall      8 2 0
Navy      5 1 1
Penn      11 3 0
Cornell      8 4 0
Washington & Jefferson      2 1 0
Syracuse      7 4 0
Lehigh      6 4 0
Delaware      3 2 0
Amherst      6 5 1
Rutgers      5 5 1
Dartmouth      4 4 0
Penn State      2 2 0
Colgate      1 1 0
Wesleyan      5 6 0
Tufts      2 3 0
Brown      2 4 1
Western Univ. Penn      1 2 0
Lafayette      2 5 1
Bucknell      1 4 1
Fordham      1 3 1
Massachusetts      1 4 0
Columbia      1 5 1
Army      0 1 0
Geneva      0 1 0

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1RochesterIthaca, NYW 98–0
October 4at Union (NY)Schenectady, NYW 32–0
October 8at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAL 8–18
October 18at Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 26–0
October 29at Amherst
L 0–18[4]
November 1at HarvardL 0–77[5]
November 5at WesleyanMiddletown, CTL 2–4
November 8BucknellIthaca, NYW 26–0
November 153:00 p.m.vs. MichiganW 20–52,000
November 22ColumbiaIthaca, NY (rivalry)W 36–0
November 27at Chicago Athletic ClubChicago, ILW 12–8
December 6FordhamIthaca, NYW 82–4

References

  1. "Cornell Yearly Results (1890–1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. "1890 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. Zachary Silver, Raphy Gendler (27 October 2018). "Football Embarrassed by Princeton, 66-0, for Worst Loss in 128 Years". Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 29 October 2018. The last time Cornell suffered a loss this demoralizing was Nov. 1, 1890 — a 77-0 thrashing at the hands of Harvard.
  4. "Very Little Punting". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1890. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Good Old Points: Touch 'Em Down and Kick Your Goals". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1890. p. 6 via Newspapers.com.
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