1996 Cornell Big Red football
ConferenceIvy League
Record4–6 (4–3 Ivy)
Head coach
Captains
  • Steve Busch
  • Chad Levitt
  • Seth Payne
  • Brian Weidel
Home stadiumSchoellkopf Field
1996 Ivy League football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 17 Dartmouth $  7 –0   10 –0  
Columbia  5 –2   8 –2  
Brown  4 –3   5 –5  
Cornell  4 –3   4 –6  
Penn  3 –4   5 –5  
Harvard  2 –5   4 –6  
Princeton  2 –5   3 –7  
Yale  1 –6   2 –8  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 1996 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Cornell tied for third in the Ivy League.

In its seventh season under head coach Jim Hofher, the team compiled a 4–6 record and was outscored 280 to 221. Steve Busch, Chad Levitt, Seth Payne and Brian Weidel were team captains.[1]

Cornell's 4–3 conference record tied for third place in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red were outscored 178 to 157 by Ivy opponents.[2]

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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21 Princetondagger
W 33–27 2OT 14,120 [3]
September 28 at Lafayette*
L 19–30 5,828 [4]
October 5 at Buffalo*
L 24–41 9,177 [5]
October 12 at Harvard
W 20–13 8,700 [6]
October 19 Colgate*
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 21–31 5,943 [7]
October 26 Dartmouth
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
L 21–38 8,226 [8]
November 2 Brown
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY
L 21–35 8,202 [9]
November 9 at Yale
W 28–20 7,655 [10]
November 16 at Columbia
L 10–24 7,055 [11]
November 23 Penn
  • Schoellkopf Field
  • Ithaca, NY (rivalry)
W 24–21 5,223 [12]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

References

  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. 36–37. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Princeton Bows to Cornell in Ivy's First Overtime Game". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. Associated Press. September 22, 1996. p. C14 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ Meixell, Ted (September 29, 1996). "Lafayette's Moore, Quincy Solve Cornell". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ McShea, Keith (October 7, 1996). "Bulls Turn Back Big Red, 41-24". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ McShea, Keith (October 14, 1996). "Levitt, CU Top Harvard". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ McShea, Keith (October 21, 1996). "'New' Red Raiders Overtake Cornell". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ McShea, Keith (October 28, 1996). "Big Red Falls Back with Loss". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 4B – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ McShea, Keith (November 4, 1996). "CU's Ivy Title Hopes Take a Severe Hit". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Berlet, Bruce (November 10, 1996). "Turnovers Ruin Yale's Turnaround". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. p. E11 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ McShea, Keith (November 18, 1996). "A Heartbreaker: Injury Stops Levitt Short of Goal; CU Falls". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Juliano, Joe (November 24, 1996). "Cornell Ends Penn's Season on Sour Note". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. C15 – via Newspapers.com.
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