1949 Cornell Big Red football team

1949 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 12
Record8–1
Head coach
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Vincent     10 0 0
No. 4 Army     9 0 0
Trinity (CT)     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
No. 12 Cornell     8 1 0
No. 13 Villanova     8 1 0
Bucknell     6 2 0
Dartmouth     6 2 0
Buffalo     6 3 0
Pittsburgh     6 3 0
Princeton     6 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Temple     5 4 0
Penn     4 4 0
Yale     4 4 0
Boston College     4 4 1
Syracuse     4 5 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Duquesne     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 5 2
CCNY     2 5 1
NYU     3 6 0
Columbia     2 7 0
Hofstra     1 5 1
Colgate     1 8 0
Harvard     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1949 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1949 college football season. In its third season under head coach George K. James, the team compiled a 8–1 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 284 to 111.[1]

Cornell played its home games in Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.

Hillary Chollet's performance in the Yale game[Note] prompted Coach James to call it "one of the most brilliant displays of offensive and defensive football I have ever seen."[2] Chollet played about three-quarters of the game on both offense and defense.[2] He gained 54 yards on eleven rushing attempts, 45 receiving three passes, 57 returning two intercepted passes, 31 on two punt returns, and 55 returning the opening kickoff, for a total of 242 yards.[2]

  1. ^ "1949 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Kane, Robert J. (1992). Good Sports A History of Cornell Athletics (1st ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 68. ISBN 0-9633274-0-2.

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