1897 Cornell Big Red football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1897 Cornell Big Red football Independent 5–3–1 Pop Warner 1st William McKeever Percy Field The 1897 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 133 to 42. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1897 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George Young, Cornell (Walter Camp-2, Outing-1); end William McKeever (Camp-2); and end Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (Camp-3).Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders New Haven Evening Register December 8, 1897A Brief Review of the Football Season The Outing Magazine Jan 1898 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_31/outXXXI04/outXXXI04u.pdf Schedule y y y September 25 Colgate Percy Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry) W 6-0 October 3 Syracuse Percy Field Ithaca, NY W 16-0 October 9 1897 Tufts Jumbos Tufts Percy Field Ithaca, NY W 15-0 October 16 at Lafayette March Field Easton, PA T 4-4 October 23 Princeton Percy Field Ithaca, NY L 0-10 7,000 Tigers Badly Scared: Princeton Went to Ithaca Expecting to Have an Easy Time The World (New York) October 24, 1897 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16525147/tigers_badly_scared_princeton_went_to/ Newspapers.com October 27 at Harvard Soldiers' Field Cambridge, MA L 5-24 6,000 Harvard Wins: Crimson Football Team Defeats Cornell's Brave Warriors, 24 to 5 Boston Post October 31, 1897 1, 3 https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-post-oct-31-1897-p-1/ NewspaperARCHIVE October 30 Penn State Percy Field Ithaca, NY W 45-0 November 13 2:30 p.m. vs Williams Olympic Park Buffalo, NY W 42-0 3,000–5,000 Cornell Should Win Today's Game.—Ithacans Expected to Defeat Williams' Eleven https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier/200468281/ Buffalo Courier-Record. Buffalo, New York November 13, 1897 10 June 27, 2026 Newspapers.com Glory Of Ezra's Sons At Zenith!.—Cornell-Williams Tie Record of Three Successive Years Overwhelming Rent https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news/200468435/ Buffalo Courier-Record Buffalo, New York November 14, 1897 9, 23 June 28, 2026 Newspapers.com Yale-Harvard, Cornell-Williams https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier/200468772/ The Buffalo Sunday News Buffalo, New York November 14, 1897 2 June 27, 2026 Newspapers.com Cornell Overwhelms Williams https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle/200468377/ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York November 14, 1897 8 June 27, 2026 Newspapers.com November 25 at Penn (rivalry) Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA L 0-4 20,000 Cornell Gives Penn A Hard Fight For Victory https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188493/the-philadelphia-times/ The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 26, 1897 2 March 22, 2022 Newspapers.com Hard Fight For Victory (continued) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188588/the-philadelphia-times/ The Times Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 26, 1897 7 March 22, 2022 Newspapers.com 1897 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football December 10, 2015 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/cornell/1897-schedule.html References Cornell Category:Cornell Big Red football seasons Cornell Big Red football