1976 Cornell Big Red football team

1976 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIvy League
Record2–7 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1975
1977 →
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1976 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale + 6 1 0 8 1 0
Brown + 6 1 0 8 1 0
Harvard 4 3 0 6 3 0
Dartmouth 4 3 0 6 3 0
Columbia 2 5 0 3 6 0
Penn 2 5 0 3 6 0
Princeton 2 5 0 2 7 0
Cornell 2 5 0 2 7 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1976 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University in the Ivy League during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In its second and final season under head coach George Seifert, the Big Red compiled a 2–7 record and was outscored 177 to 109. Team captains were chosen on a game-by-game basis,[1] and home games were played on campus at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.

Cornell's 2–5 conference record placed it in a four-way tie for fifth place, at the bottom of the Ivy League standings. The Big Red were outscored 131 to 75 by Ivy opponents.[2]

With an overall record of 3–15 (.167), Seifert was fired days after the final game,[3] a 31–13 win over Penn,[4] and returned to Stanford as the defensive backs coach under new head coach Bill Walsh.

  1. ^ "Football Record Book" (PDF). Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ^ "Year-by-Year History". Ivy League Football Media Guide (PDF). Princeton, N.J.: Ivy League. 2017. pp. 27–28. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "Seifert thumbed". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 16, 1976. p. 16.
  4. ^ "Penn bombed". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. November 14, 1976. p. 87.