1901 Cornell Big Red football team

1901 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–1
Head coach
CaptainBill Warner
Home stadiumPercy Field
Seasons
← 1900
1902 →
1901 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     12 0 0
Yale     11 1 1
Cornell     11 1 0
Dartmouth     10 1 0
Massachusetts     9 1 0
Princeton     9 1 1
Syracuse     7 1 0
Holy Cross     7 1 1
Geneva     6 1 1
Army     5 1 2
Western U. of Penn     7 2 1
Lafayette     9 3 0
Swarthmore     8 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 2 2
Frankin & Marshall     7 3 1
Penn     10 5 0
Buffalo     4 2 0
Columbia     8 5 0
Fordham     2 1 1
Penn State     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Pittsburgh College     3 2 0
Temple     3 2 0
NYU     4 3 1
Tufts     6 6 1
Vermont     5 5 1
Dickinson     3 4 0
Carlisle     5 7 1
Brown     4 7 1
Villanova     2 3 0
Drexel     2 5 1
Colgate     2 5 0
Boston College     1 8 0
Lehigh     1 11 0
New Hampshire     0 6 0
Rutgers     0 7 0

The 1901 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1901 college football season. In its first season under head coach Raymond Starbuck, the team compiled an 11–1 record, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 333 to 14. The only loss was by an 8–6 score against Princeton.[1]

Five Cornell players received honors on the 1901 College Football All-America Team: guards Bill Warner (Walter Camp-1) and Sanford Hunt (Camp-2, Caspar Whitney-1); quarterback Alfred A. Brewster, Jr. (Whitney-2); halfback Henry Purcell (Camp-2); and fullback Henry Schoellkopf (Camp-3).[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "1901 Cornell Big Red Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "All-America Teams". Walter Camp Football Foundation. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013.
  3. ^ "All-America Team of 1901". Spalding's Football Guide: 47. 1902. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Google books. Open access icon
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1902). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2015.