Cornell–Penn football rivalry

{{Infobox sports rivalry

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| name = Cornell–Penn football rivalry

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| team1 = Cornell Big Red

| team1logo = Cornell "C" logo.svg

| team2 = Penn Quakers

| team2logo = Penn Quakers logo.svg

| sport = Football

| firstmeeting = November 18, 1893
Penn, 50–0

| mostrecent = November 9, 2024
Penn, 67–49

| nextmeeting = November 8, 2025

| total = 130

| series = Penn leads, 78–47–5

| largestvictory = Penn, 59–6 (1945)

| longeststreak = Penn, 8 (1893–1900, 1940–1947)

| longestunbeatenstreak =

| currentstreak = Penn, 3 (2022–present)

| currentunbeatenstreak =

| trophy = Trustees' Cup

| trophy series = Penn leads, 21–8

| stadiums =

}}

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| caption = Locations of Cornell and Penn

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| label-color1 = black

| mark2 = Red pog.svg

| label2 = Cornell

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The Cornell–Penn football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Cornell Big Red and Penn Quakers.{{cite news|last1=Fleischman|first1=Bill|title=Quakers Try To Recapture A Tradition Thanksgiving Day Matchup With Cornell Being Revived|url=http://articles.philly.com/1989-02-01/sports/26155271_1_colgate-cornell-penn-cornell-quakers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603053728/http://articles.philly.com/1989-02-01/sports/26155271_1_colgate-cornell-penn-cornell-quakers|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2016|access-date=May 11, 2016|agency=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=February 1, 1989}}{{cite news|title=Ancient Feuds Among Eastern Colleges Mark Holiday Grid Program|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19291126&id=TEcxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VuEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4190,5694228&hl=en|access-date=May 11, 2016|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Reading Eagle|date=November 26, 1929}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/60099343/|title=Revitalized Penn Upends Cornell, 14-6 |publisher=The Troy Record|date=November 29, 1957|page=16|agency=Associated Press|quote="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."}} Traditionally, the game was played on Thanksgiving Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 78–47–5, with Penn forfeiting the game in 1997 (because of the participation of an academically ineligible player).{{cite news|title=Marrow ineligibility forces Penn to forfeit games|url=http://www.thedp.com/article/1998/01/marrow_ineligibility_forces_penn_to_forfeit_games|access-date=May 24, 2017|agency=The Daily Pennsylvanian|date=January 12, 1998}}

Attendance

The Thanksgiving Cornell–Penn football game, broadcast on national radio before the television era, attracted huge crowds to Franklin Field in Philadelphia. 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.{{cite news |title=U. of P. Defeated by Cornell, 7-0, Before 70,000 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/173813719 |access-date=November 10, 2018 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=November 27, 1931 |pages=1, 22}} The 1947 game attracted a crowd estimated at "about 80,000".{{cite news |last1=Juliano |first1=Joe |title=Penn-Cornell recalls Thanksgivings of past |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/168220139 |access-date=November 10, 2018 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=November 23, 1989 |pages=1-C, 16-C}} The 1959 game attracted 23,661. By 1965 attendance was down to 10,543, and the Thanksgiving tradition was ended and a standard home-and-away schedule was instituted.

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.{{cite web|title=Penn Football 2012 Fact Book|url=https://admin.xosn.com/pdf8/908183.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=1700&|publisher=Penn Athletics|access-date=May 11, 2016}} 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 21 times to Cornell's 8.{{cite web|title=Football Out To End Season By Taking Trustees' Cup Home From Penn|url=http://www.cornellbigred.com/news/2015/11/16/FB_1116151621.aspx|publisher=Cornell Athletics|access-date=May 11, 2016}}

Game results

{{sports rivalry series table

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| format = compact | cols = 2

| team1 = Cornell

| team1style = {{NCAA color cell|Cornell Big Red}}

| team2 = Penn

| team2style = {{NCAA color cell|Penn Quakers}}

| legend_forfeit_text = Forfeits

| note = Source:{{cite web|title=Cornell vs Pennsylvania|url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/c/cornell/opponents_records.php?teamid=2519|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|access-date=May 11, 2016|archive-date=September 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908000645/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/c/cornell/opponents_records.php?teamid=2519|url-status=dead}}
* Pennsylvania forfeit (1997)

}}

==See also==

References

External links

{{cite web |title=Video: UPenn vs Cornell Football Game, Thanksgiving Day 1915 [no sound] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arC_1otuQQ |website=YouTube |publisher=Penn Archives |access-date=November 10, 2018}}

Category:College football rivalries in the United States

Category:Cornell Big Red football

Category:Penn Quakers football