1980 Cornell Big Red football team

1980 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIvy League
Record5–5 (5–2 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • Tom Rohlfing
  • Dan Scully
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
Seasons
← 1979
1981 →
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1980 Ivy League football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale $ 6 1 0 8 2 0
Cornell 5 2 0 5 5 0
Harvard 4 3 0 7 3 0
Brown 4 3 0 6 4 0
Princeton 4 3 0 6 4 0
Dartmouth 4 3 0 4 6 0
Penn 1 6 0 1 9 0
Columbia 0 7 0 1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1980 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Cornell finished second in the Ivy League.

In its fourth season under head coach Bob Blackman, the team compiled a 5–5 record but was outscored 191 to 179. Team captains were Tom Rohlfing and Dan Scully.[1]

Cornell's 5–2 conference record placed second in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red outscored Ivy opponents 144 to 77.[2]

Ivy League football teams expanded their schedules to 10 games in 1980, making this the first year since 1954 that the Big Red played three games against non-Ivy opponents.

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

  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. p. 29. Retrieved July 10, 2020.