1990 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1990 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Ivy League. The Big Red were led by first-year head coach Jim Hofher and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red finished the season 7–3 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to win Cornell's third Ivy League championship, sharing the title with Dartmouth.[1]
| 1990 Cornell Big Red football | |
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Ivy League co-champion | |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| 1990 record | 7–3 (6–1 Ivy) |
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| Defensive coordinator | Chuck Driesbach (1st season) |
| Captain | Chris Cochrane, Rob Ryder, Paul Tully |
| Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 17 Dartmouth + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 15 | Princeton | W 17–14 | 14,000 | [2] | |
| September 22 | at Colgate* | L 24–59 | 5,805 | [3] | |
| September 29 | Bucknell* |
| L 21–42 | 7,500 | [4] |
| October 6 | at Harvard | W 20–17 | 16,300 | [5] | |
| October 13 | at Lafayette* | W 38–16 | 9,852 | [6] | |
| October 20 | Dartmouth |
| L 6–11 | 12,000 | [7] |
| October 27 | Brown |
| W 34–7 | 16,000 | [8] |
| November 3 | at Yale | W 41–31 | 16,576 | [9] | |
| November 10 | at Columbia | W 41–0 | 860 | [10] | |
| November 17 | Penn |
| W 21–15 | 12,000 | [11] |
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References
- "1990 Football Schedule". Cornell Athletics. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- Benson, Frank (September 17, 1990). "Big Red Holds On to Outlast Princeton". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Benson, Frank (September 24, 1990). "'Gate Closes on Red, as the Raiders Roll". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Benson, Frank (October 1, 1990). "Biston Stampede Buries Cornell, 42-21". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Concannon, Joe (October 7, 1990). "Harvard Sacked by Cornell". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 66 – via Newspapers.com.
- Meixell, Ted (October 14, 1990). "Lafayette 'Horrible' in 38-16 Defeat". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Herzog, Brad (October 22, 1990). "Dartmouth Dodges a Last-Second Cornell Bullet". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Herzog, Brad (October 29, 1990). "Big Red Beats Up on Brown, 34-7". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Berlet, Bruce (November 4, 1990). "Oliaro, Cornell Top Yale". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. pp. C9, C11 – via Newspapers.com.
- Herzog, Brad (November 12, 1990). "Big Red Buries Columbia, 41-0". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- Juliano, Joe (November 18, 1990). "Quakers Defeated by Cornell, 21-15, as Late Drive Stalls". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. 12-E – via Newspapers.com.
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