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1889 Cornell Big Red football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1889 college football season. The team compiled an 8–4 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 354 to 130.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5BucknellIthaca, NYW 66–0
October 12LafayetteIthaca, NYW 10–0
October 15at YaleL 6–56
October 19RochesterIthaca, NYW 124–0
November 2StevensIthaca, NYW 39–4
November 9YaleIthaca, NYL 0–702,000
November 16vs. MichiganW 66–0
November 23at ColumbiaW 20–0
November 28LafayetteSyracuse, NYW 24–0

References

  1. "Cornell Yearly Results (1887–1889)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. "1889 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  3. "Yale Wins at Football: Cornell Defeated by a Score of 56 to 6". The New York Times. October 17, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Cornell Defeated By Yale". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 10, 1889. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Cornell vs. Michigan". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. "Columbia Beaten By Cornell". The Sun. New York, New York. November 24, 1889. p. 8. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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