American college football season
1971 Cornell Big Red football |
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Ivy League co-champion |
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Conference | Ivy League |
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Record | 8–1 (6–1 Ivy) |
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Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
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1971 Ivy League football standings | Conf | | | Overall |
Team | W | | L | | T | | | W | | L | | T |
Dartmouth + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | | | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 |
Cornell + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | | | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 |
Columbia | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | | | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 |
Harvard | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | | | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 |
Yale | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | | | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 |
Princeton | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | | | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 |
Penn | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | | | 2 | – | 7 | – | 0 |
Brown | 0 | – | 7 | – | 0 | | | 0 | – | 9 | – | 0 |
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- + – Conference co-champions
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The 1971 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Ivy League. The Big Red were led by sixth-year head coach Jack Musick and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red finished the season 8–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to win Cornell's first-ever Ivy League championship, sharing the title with Dartmouth, the only team to defeat the 1971 Big Red.[1][2]
The team was led offensively by future NFL running back Ed Marinaro; during the 1971 season, Marinaro capped his college football career by setting a national collegiate record for career rushing yards at 4,715, which stood until being broken in 1976 by Tony Dorsett of the Pittsburgh Panthers.[3] Marinaro won first team All-American honors and finished in a close second in voting for the Heisman Trophy.[4] On October 30, 1971, Cornell saw its largest home football crowd in the post-1970 era with 23,000 in attendance at Schoellkopf Field (which had a capacity of 25,597) for the day's rivalry match-up against Columbia.[4]
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 25 | Colgate* | | W 38–20 | 16,500 | [5] |
October 2 | at Rutgers* | | W 31–17 | 15,000 | [6] |
October 9 | Princeton | - Schoellkopf Field
- Ithaca, NY
| W 19–8 | 22,500 | [7] |
October 16 | Harvard | - Schoellkopf Field
- Ithaca, NY
| W 21–16 | 20,000 | [8] |
October 23 | at Yale | | W 31–10 | 35,168 | [9] |
October 30 | Columbia | - Schoellkopf Field
- Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
| W 24–21 | 23,000 | [10] |
November 6 | Brown | - Schoellkopf Field
- Ithaca, NY
| W 21–7 | 15,000 | [11] |
November 13 | at Dartmouth | | L 14–24 | 20,816 | [12] |
November 20 | at Penn | | W 41–13 | 43,687 | [13] |
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Roster
1971 Cornell Big Red football team roster |
Players | Coaches |
Offense Pos. | # | Name | Class | QB | 10 | Barrett Rosser | Jr | HB | 12 | John Moresko | Sr | QB | 14 | Clifford Henry | Sr | OE | 17 | Dana Williams | So | QB | 18 | Mark Allen | So | HB | 19 | Ronald Mower | Sr | FB | 36 | Robert Joehl | Jr | FB | 39 | Samuel Costa | So | HB | 40 | Thomas Albright (C) | Sr | HB | 41 | Douglas Herron | Sr | HB | 42 | Richard Russo | So | HB | 44 | Ed Marinaro | Sr | FB | 46 | Mark Piscitelli | Jr | OE | 47 | John Corrigan | So | C | 50 | Paul Hanley | Jr | OT | 52 | Joseph Wasilewski | So | C | 53 | James White | Jr | G | 54 | James Popielinski | So | OT | 56 | Mark Newton | So | C | 59 | Mike Knuff | So | OT | 60 | Pat Knuff | So | G | 63 | Anthony Orel | Sr | G | 64 | Edward Shay | Sr | OT | 65 | Michael Fleming | Jr | G | 70 | Michael Phillips | So | G | 71 | Randy Shayler | Sr | OT | 74 | Philip Genetos | So | OT | 75 | Craig Lambert | Sr | G | 77 | Alfred Van Ranst | So | OT | 79 | John Cushing | Sr | OE | 80 | Willis Bradley | So | WR | 81 | Geoge Milosevic | Jr | OE | 82 | Keith Daub | Jr | OE | 85 | Gary Henderson | So | | Defense Pos. | # | Name | Class | DB | 20 | Larry Sherman | Jr | LB | 22 | Kenneth Grace | Jr | DE | 24 | Lamont Garnett | So | DB | 25 | Peter Knight | Jr | DB | 26 | James Theodorakos | Jr | DB | 27 | Steven Lahr | So | DB | 32 | Robert Fleming | Sr | DB | 33 | Thomas Rowlands | Sr | LB | 35 | John Bozich | Jr | DB | 37 | Allen Matuszczak | Sr | LB | 38 | Jon Tracosas | So | DB | 43 | Donald Jean | Sr | DB | 48 | Kevin Earl | So | DB | 49 | Danny Smith | Sr | DG | 55 | Charles Pettit | So | LB | 57 | Ray Van Sweringen | Jr | LB | 58 | Robert Lally | So | DT | 61 | Thomas Guba | Sr | DG | 66 | Richard Miller | Sr | DT | 67 | Thomas Rakowski | Sr | DG | 68 | David Fear | So | DE | 69 | George Runger | So | DT | 72 | Daniel Lombardo | So | DT | 73 | Reginald Nichols | Jr | DT | 78 | Michael O'Hagan | So | DT | 84 | Richard Fauntleroy | Sr | DE | 86 | William Ellis (C) | Sr | DE | 88 | Bruce Bozich | So | DE | 89 | Russell LaVoy | So | | Special teams Pos. | # | Name | Class | K | 13 | John Killian | Sr | K | 16 | Howard Fries | So | | - Head coach
- Coordinators/assistant coaches
- Richard Litchard
- Terry Mallett
- Paul Pawlak
- Carmen Piccone
- William Spencer
- Ted Thoren
- Robert Valesente
- Legend
- (C) Team captain
- (S) Suspended
- (I) Ineligible
- Injured
- Redshirt
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References
- ^ "1971 Cornell Big Red Stats". Sports Reference. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ "1971 Football Schedule". Cornell Athletics. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ "Jack Musick, 52, Guided Cornell's Football Team To Ivy Crown in 1971". The New York Times. November 29, 1977. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ a b "Over A Century of Tradition" (PDF). Cornell Football Association. Retrieved October 12, 2017.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Van Sickle, Kenny (September 27, 1971). "Colgate Defeated: Cornell Goes Back to Marinaro Country". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Van Sickle, Kenny (October 4, 1971). "Cornell Grinds Out Win over Rutgers". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McGowen, Deane (October 10, 1971). "Cornell Turns Back Princeton; Big Red Triumphs, 19-8". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (October 17, 1971). "Cornell Subdues Harvard by 21-16". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ Wallace, William N. (October 24, 1971). "Cornell Tops Yale, 31-10; Marinaro Excels". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ White, Gordon S. Jr. (October 31, 1971). "Marinaro Breaks Record as Cornell Wins, 24-21; Columbia Foiled". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 7, 1971). "Cornell Tops Ivy by Beating Brown". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ Amdur, Neil (November 14, 1971). "Dartmouth Tops Cornell, 24-14; Ivy Lead Shared". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
- ^ White, Gordon S. Jr. (November 21, 1971). "Cornell and Dartmouth Win and Share Ivy Title; Penn 41-13 Loser". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
External links
- Cornell vs. Harvard (Oct. 16, 1971) Archived 2017-10-12 at the Wayback Machine game footage from the Harvard Video Archive
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