2005 Cornell Big Red football team

2005 Cornell Big Red football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	6–4 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach	Jim Knowles (2nd season)
Offensive coordinator	Clayton Carlin (2nd season)
Captain	Kevin Boothe, Kevin Rex, Joel Sussman
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field (Capacity: 25,597)

2005 Ivy League football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 15 Brown $		6	–	1					9	–	1
Princeton		5	–	2					7	–	3
Harvard		5	–	2					7	–	3
Yale		4	–	3					4	–	6
Cornell		4	–	3					6	–	4
Penn		3	–	4					5	–	5
Dartmouth		1	–	6					2	–	8
Columbia		0	–	7					2	–	8
$ – Conference champion Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2005 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by second-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 6–4 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result
September 17	1:00 p.m.	Bucknell*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 24–7
September 24	1:00 p.m.	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 17–37
October 1	1:00 p.m.	at Colgate*	Andy Kerr Stadium Hamilton, NY (rivalry)	L 20–34
October 8	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 27–13
October 15	1:00 p.m.	Georgetown*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 57–7
October 22	1:00 p.m.	Brown	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 24–38
October 29	Noon	at Princeton	Princeton University Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 17–20
November 5	12:30 p.m.	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 21–10
November 12	1:00 p.m.	Columbia	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 45–7
November 19	Noon	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 16–7
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time