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1923 Cornell Big Red football team

1923 Cornell Big Red football
Co-national champion (Sagarin)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainGeorge Pfann
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell   –   8 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   8 – 0 – 0
St. John's   –   5 – 0 – 1
Dartmouth   –   8 – 1 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 1 – 0
Boston College   –   7 – 1 – 1
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 1 – 1
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 1 – 2
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   6 – 2 – 1
Lehigh   –   6 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   6 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   6 – 3 – 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
Buffalo   –   2 – 5 – 1
Fordham   –   2 – 7 – 0
Boston University   –   1 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   0 – 7 – 1
Temple   –   0 – 5 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 7 – 0
Springfield   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1923 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University as an independent during the 1923 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 339 to 27.[1][2] The 1923 season was part of 26-game winning streak that began in October 1921 and ended in October 1924 and included national championship claims for 1921, 1922, and 1923.

There was no contemporaneous system in 1923 for determining a national champion. However, Cornell was retroactively named as the national champion by Jeff Sagarin in 1978. Illinois, Michigan, and Yale were selected as the 1923 national champion or co-champion by other selectors.[3]

Cornell quarterback George Pfann was a consensus first-team player on the 1923 All-America college football team.[4] Tackle Frank Sundstrom also received first-team All-America honors from Walter Camp, Lawrence Perry, and Percy Haughton.[5][6][7]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29St. Bonaventure
W 41–6[8]
October 6Susquehanna
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 84–0[9]
October 13Williams
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 28–6[10]
October 20Colgate
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 34–715,000[11]
November 3at Dartmouth
W 32–7> 15,000[12][13]
November 10at Columbia
W 35–0> 30,000[14]
November 17Johns Hopkins
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 52–0[15][16]
November 29at Penn
W 14–757,000[17][18]

References

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  1. ^ "1922 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  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.
  3. ^ 2020 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2020. pp. 112–114. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Pfann and Sundstrom Are Given Places on Camp's All-American". Ithaca Journal-News. December 18, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Lawrence Perry (December 15, 1923). "Sundstrom and Pfann On Perry's Selection: Yale Rated at Top". Ithaca Journal-News. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "All Americans: Percy Haughton's Team". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. December 11, 1923.
  8. ^ "Cornell Trims Saints In Opening Contest Of Season, 41 to 6". Ithaca Journal-News. October 1, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Cornell Overwhelms Susquehanna Eleven Scoring 12 Touchdowns". Ithaca Journal-News. October 8, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Red and White Eleven Finds Real Difficulty In Downing Williams". Ithaca Journal-News. October 15, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Cornell Uses Passes To Defeat Colgate Before Record Crowd". Ithaca Journal-News. October 22, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Great Cornell Gridiron Team Rides Roughshod Over Dartmouth 32 to 7". Ithaca Journal-News. November 5, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Cornell Romps Over Dartmouth Team: Big Red Eleven Crushes Green By Score of 32-7". New York Daily News. November 4, 1923. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Paul Gallico (November 11, 1923). "Cornell Outclasses Columbia by 35 to 0: Blue and White Has No Chance Against Dobie". New York Daily News. p. 59 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Johns Hopkins Unable To Stop Dobie Eleven; Final Score Is 52-0". Ithaca Journal-News. November 19, 1923. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Big Red Eleven Rolls Up Score: Hopkins Proves Unable To Stop Charge of Gil Dobie's Machine". The Baltimore Sun. November 18, 1923. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Perry Lewis (November 30, 1923). "Fighting Quaker Eleven Loses To Cornell, 14 To 7". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "Cornell Defeats Penn in Desperate Gridiron Battle, 14-7: Fighting Quakers Check Varsity's Running Attack; Pfann Outstanding Star". Ithaca Journal-News. November 30, 1923. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.