1923 Cornell Big Red football team

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.[1] They outscored their opponents 320 to 33.[2]

1923 Cornell Big Red football
Co-national champion (Sagarin)
ConferenceIndependent
1923 record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainGeorge Pfann
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Lafayette      6 1 2
Tufts      6 2 0
Army      6 2 1
Colgate      6 2 1
Lehigh      6 2 1
NYU      6 2 1
Penn State      6 2 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
Villanova      0 7 1
Temple      0 5 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30St. BonaventureW 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 DartmouthW 32–7
November 10at ColumbiaW 35–0
November 17Johns Hopkins
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 52–0
November 24at PennW 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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