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1971 Cornell Big Red football team

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1971 Cornell Big Red football

Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	8–1 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Jack Musick (6th season)
Captains	Tom Albright Bill Ellis
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field
Seasons ← 1970 1972 →

1971 Ivy League football standings
v t e	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

+ – Conference co-champions

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[edit]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Colgate*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 38–20	16,500	^[5]
October 2	atRutgers*	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	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	atYale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	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	atDartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 14–24	20,816	^[12]
November 20	atPenn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	W 41–13	43,687	^[13]
*Non-conference game

Roster[edit]

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

Jack Musick

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

Roster

References[edit]

^ "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[edit]

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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Ivy League football champions

I-A/FBS

Yale (1956)
Princeton (1957)
Dartmouth (1958)
Penn (1959)
Yale (1960)
Columbia & Harvard (1961)
Dartmouth (1962)
Dartmouth & Princeton (1963)
Princeton (1964)
Dartmouth (1965)
Dartmouth, Harvard, & Princeton (1966)
Yale (1967)
Harvard & Yale (1968)
Dartmouth, Yale, & Princeton (1969)
Dartmouth (1970)
Dartmouth & Cornell (1971)
Dartmouth (1972)
Dartmouth (1973)
Yale (1974)
Harvard (1975)
Yale & Brown (1976)
Yale (1977)
Dartmouth (1978)
Yale (1979)
Yale (1980)
Yale & Dartmouth (1981)

I-AA/FCS

Dartmouth, Harvard & Penn (1982)
Harvard & Penn (1983)
Penn (1984)
Penn (1985)
Penn (1986)
Harvard (1987)
Penn & Cornell (1988)
Yale & Princeton (1989)
Dartmouth & Cornell (1990)
Dartmouth (1991)
Dartmouth & Princeton (1992)
Penn (1993)
Penn (1994)
Princeton (1995)
Dartmouth (1996)
Harvard (1997)
Penn (1998)
Brown & Yale (1999)
Penn (2000)
Harvard (2001)
Penn (2002)
Penn (2003)
Harvard (2004)
Brown (2005)
Princeton & Yale (2006)
Harvard (2007)
Harvard & Brown (2008)
Penn (2009)
Penn (2010)
Harvard (2011)
Penn (2012)
Harvard & Princeton (2013)
Harvard (2014)
Harvard, Dartmouth, & Penn (2015)
Princeton & Penn (2016)
Yale (2017)
Princeton (2018)
Dartmouth & Yale (2019)
No season (2020)
Dartmouth & Princeton (2021)
Yale (2022)
Dartmouth, Harvard, & Yale (2023)

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