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1900 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–2
Head coach
Captain Raymond Starbuck
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
←  1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     12 0 0
Penn     12 1 0
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Geneva     5 1 1
Lafayette     9 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Princeton     8 3 0
Drexel     5 2 0
Fordham     3 1 1
Army     7 3 1
Brown     7 3 1
Columbia     7 3 1
Villanova     5 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Swarthmore     6 3 2
Holy Cross     5 3 1
Carlisle     6 4 1
Buffalo     3 2 2
Dickinson     5 4 0
Western Univ. of Penn     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 3 1
Rutgers     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 1
Lehigh     5 6 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 5 0
Temple     3 4 1
Penn State     4 6 1
Amherst     4 7 1
Dartmouth     2 4 2
NYU     3 6 1
Tufts     3 6 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
New Hampshire     1 5 1
Colgate     2 8 0
CCNY     0 1 0

The 1900 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1900 college football season. In their second season under head coach Percy Haughton, the Big Red compiled a 10–2 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 167 to 55. [1] [2] Two Cornell players received honors on the 1900 College Football All-America Team: fullback Raymond Starbuck ( Caspar Whitney-1); [3] and tackle Edward R. Alexander ( Walter Camp-3).

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 22 Colgate
W 16–0 [4]
September 29 Syracuse
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–0
October 3 Rochester
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–0
October 6 Bucknell
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 6–0
October 13 Washington & Jefferson
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 16–5 [5]
October 20 Union (NY)
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 11–0
October 27 Dartmouth
W 23–6
November 32:45 p.m.at Princeton Princeton, NJW 12–0 [6]
November 10 Oberlin
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 29–0
November 17at Lafayette
L 0–17
November 24 Vermont
  • Percy Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 42–0 [7]
November 29at PennL 0–27

References

  1. ^ "Cornell Yearly Results (1900–1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "1900 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Caspar Whitney (January 1901). "University Football: The Season of 1900 Reviewed" (PDF). Outing. pp. 483–484.
  4. ^ "Madisonensis: Cornell 16 Colgate 0". Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
  5. ^ "Cornell Given Stubborn Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 14, 1900. p. 13. Retrieved September 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Cornell Beat Princeton". The New York Times. November 4, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Cornell's big score, Ithacans make most points of the season with Vermont". Elmira Daily Gazette and Free Press. November 26, 1900. Retrieved September 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.