Cornell–Penn football rivalry
SportFootball
First meetingNovember 18, 1893
Penn, 50–0
Latest meetingNovember 4, 2023
Penn, 23–8
Next meetingNovember 9, 2024
TrophyTrustees' Cup
Statistics
Meetings total129
All-time seriesPenn leads, 77–47–5
Trophy seriesPenn leads, 20–8
Largest victoryPenn, 59–6 (1945)
Longest win streakPenn, 8 (1893–1900, 1940–1947)
Current win streakPenn, 2 (2022–present)
Locations of Cornell and Penn
Cornell–Penn football program, November 1922
1972 Cornell-Penn game at Schoellkopf Field
2019 Cornell-Penn game at Franklin Field

The Cornell–Penn football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Cornell Big Red and Penn Quakers.[1][2][3] Traditionally, the game was played on Thanksgiving Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] but now alternates between Philadelphia and Ithaca, New York. The game was often played as the last game of the regular season for both teams. Beginning in 2018, Cornell has faced Columbia in the last game of the regular season, while Penn plays Princeton in the last game of the regular season. The game was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first cancellation after an uninterrupted streak of 101 games going back to 1919.

In the 129 meetings since 1893 (interrupted in 1918 and 2020), Penn leads the series 77–47–5, with Penn forfeiting the game in 1997 (because of the participation of an academically ineligible player).[4][5]

Attendance

The Thanksgiving Cornell–Penn football game, broadcast on national radio before the television era, attracted huge crowds to Franklin Field in Philadelphia.[1] The 1931 game attracted a reported 70,000, and earned a story on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer along with a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of every detail of the game.[6] The 1947 game attracted a crowd estimated at "about 80,000".[7] The 1959 game attracted 23,661.[7] By 1965 attendance was down to 10,543, and the Thanksgiving tradition was ended and a standard home-and-away schedule was instituted.[7]

Played in Philadelphia for 69 consecutive meetings from 1894 through 1963 before alternating between Philadelphia and Ithaca, Cornell–Penn is the fifth-most played college football rivalry as of 2022.[8] Dedicated in 1995, the Trustees' Cup has since been awarded annually to the winner of the Cornell–Penn game. Penn has won the Trustees' Cup 20 times to Cornell's 8.[9]

Game results

Cornell victoriesPenn victoriesTie gamesForfeits

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fleischman, Bill (1 February 1989). "Quakers Try To Recapture A Tradition Thanksgiving Day Matchup With Cornell Being Revived". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. "Ancient Feuds Among Eastern Colleges Mark Holiday Grid Program". Reading Eagle. Associated Press. 26 November 1929. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  3. "Revitalized Penn Upends Cornell, 14-6". The Troy Record. Associated Press. November 29, 1957. p. 16. Fred Duelling and Jack Hanlon, picked holes in the Cornell line yesterday to give Penn's reborn Quakers a 14-6 Ivy League football victory in the 64th meeting of these traditional rivals.
  4. 1 2 "Cornell vs Pennsylvania". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  5. "Marrow ineligibility forces Penn to forfeit games". The Daily Pennsylvanian. 12 January 1998. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. "U. of P. Defeated by Cornell, 7-0, Before 70,000". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 27 November 1931. pp. 1, 22. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  7. 1 2 3 Juliano, Joe (23 November 1989). "Penn-Cornell recalls Thanksgivings of past". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1-C, 16-C. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  8. "Penn Football 2012 Fact Book" (PDF). Penn Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  9. "Football Out To End Season By Taking Trustees' Cup Home From Penn". Cornell Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
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