1939 Cornell Big Red football team

Cornell Big Red football
	1939 Cornell Big Red football
National champion (Litkenhous); Co-ational champion (Sagarin); Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. 4
1939 record	8–0
Head coach	Carl Snavely (4th season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field
	Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

The 1939 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1939 college football season. They finished with an 8–0 record and were named national champion by Litkenhous and co-national champion by Sagarin.^[1] They outscored their opponents 197 to 52.^[2] After capping off a perfect season, Cornell declined a bid to the Rose Bowl so that the football players could catch up on their schoolwork.^[3] The Big Red finished the season ranked #4 in the Associated Press's final poll.^[4]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
October 7	Syracuse		Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 19–6
October 14	at Princeton		Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 20–7
October 21	Penn State	No. 12	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 47–0
October 28	at No. 4 Ohio State	No. 7	Ohio Stadium Columbus, OH	W 23–14	49,583
November 4	Columbia	No. 3	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 13–7
November 11	Colgate	No. 5	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 14–12
November 18	Dartmouth	No. 4	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	W 35–6
November 30	at Penn	No. 3	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 26–0
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

↑ 2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records. Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2017. p. 112. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
↑ 1939 Cornell University football scores and results Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
↑ 1939 Champions of All Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Cornell Football Association. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
↑ 1939 Cornell Big Red stats. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.

[ncaabook-1] 2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records. Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2017. p. 112. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf. Retrieved July 31, 2017.

[2] 1939 Cornell University football scores and results Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.

[3] 1939 Champions of All Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine. Cornell Football Association. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.

[4] 1939 Cornell Big Red stats. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.

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