1922 Cornell Big Red football team

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1922 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Helms)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Base defense6–3–2
CaptainEddie Kaw
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Princeton     8 0 0
Army     8 0 2
Syracuse     6 1 2
Franklin & Marshall     8 2 0
Pittsburgh     8 2 0
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Harvard     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 0
Springfield     6 2 0
Boston College     6 2 1
Brown     6 2 1
Colgate     6 3 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 0
Vermont     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Yale     6 3 1
Bucknell     7 4 0
Penn State     6 4 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Villanova     5 3 1
Columbia     5 4 0
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Rhode Island State     4 4 0
NYU     4 5 0
Fordham     3 5 2
Geneva     4 6 0
Boston University     2 4 3
Lehigh     3 5 1
New Hampshire     3 5 1
Drexel     2 4 0
Temple     1 4 1
Buffalo     1 5 0
CCNY     1 6 0
Duquesne     0 8 0

The 1922 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1922 college football season. The team finished with an 8–0 record and was retroactively named as the 1922 national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 339 to 27.[2] The team had one of the sport's greatest backfields in quarterback George Pfann, halfbacks Eddie Kaw and Floyd Ramsey, and fullback Charles E. Cassidy.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30St. BonaventureW 55–6
October 7Niagara
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 66–0
October 14New Hampshire
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 68–7
October 21Colgate
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 14–0
November 4Columbia
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 56–0
November 11vs. DartmouthW 23–0
November 18Albright
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
W 48–14
November 30at PennW 9–0

References

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  2. ^ 1921 Cornell University football scores and results Archived October 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
  3. ^ http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6440