1897 Cornell Big Red football team
{{short description|American college football season}}
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{{Infobox college sports team season
| year = 1897
| team = Cornell Big Red
| sport = football
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| conference = Independent
| record = 5–3–1
| head_coach = Pop Warner
| hc_year = 1st
| captain = William McKeever
| stadium = Percy Field
}}
{{1897 Eastern college football independents records}}
The 1897 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Pop Warner, the Big Red compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 133 to 42. Three Cornell players received honors on the 1897 College Football All-America Team: quarterback George Young, Cornell (Walter Camp-2, Outing-1); end William McKeever (Camp-2); and end Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (Camp-3).{{cite news|title=Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders|work=New Haven Evening Register|date=December 8, 1897}}{{cite news|title=A Brief Review of the Football Season|work=The Outing Magazine|date=Jan 1898|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_31/outXXXI04/outXXXI04u.pdf}}
Schedule
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|September 25| |Colgate|Percy Field|Ithaca, NY (rivalry)|W 6-0||
|October 3| |Syracuse|Percy Field|Ithaca, NY|W 16-0||
|October 9| |{{cfb link|year=1897|team=Tufts Jumbos|title=Tufts}}|Percy Field|Ithaca, NY|W 15-0||
|October 16|at|Lafayette|March Field|Easton, PA|T 4-4||
|October 23| |Princeton|Percy Field|Ithaca, NY|L 0-10|7,000|{{cite news|title=Tigers Badly Scared: Princeton Went to Ithaca Expecting to Have an Easy Time|newspaper=The World (New York)|date=October 24, 1897|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16525147/tigers_badly_scared_princeton_went_to/|via=Newspapers.com}}
|October 27|at|Harvard|Soldiers' Field|Cambridge, MA|L 5-24|6,000|{{cite news|title=Harvard Wins: Crimson Football Team Defeats Cornell's Brave Warriors, 24 to 5|newspaper=Boston Post|date=October 31, 1897|pages=1, 3|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-sunday-post-oct-31-1897-p-1/|via=NewspaperARCHIVE}}
|October 30| |Penn State|Percy Field|Ithaca, NY|W 45-0||
|November 6|at|{{cfb link|year=1897|team=Williams Ephs|title=Williams}}| |Williamstown, MA|W 42-0||
|November 25|at|Penn (rivalry)|Franklin Field|Philadelphia, PA|L 0-4|20,000|{{cite news |author= |title=Cornell Gives Penn A Hard Fight For Victory |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188493/the-philadelphia-times/ |newspaper=The Times |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=November 26, 1897 |page=2 |access-date=March 22, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=Hard Fight For Victory (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98188588/the-philadelphia-times/ |newspaper=The Times |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=November 26, 1897 |page=7 |access-date=March 22, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
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