1941 Cornell Big Red football team

The 1941 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University in the Ivy League during the 1941 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Carl Snavely, the team compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 88 to 65.^[1]

Record5–3 (3–2 Ivy)

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1941 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 15 Penn $	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Columbia	3	–	1	–	0	3	–	5	–	0
Harvard	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	2	–	1
Cornell	3	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Brown	1	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Princeton	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	6	–	0
Yale	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

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Cornell was ranked at No. 21 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.^[2]

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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	Syracuse*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 6–0	18,000	^[3]
October 11	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	W 7–0	20,000	^[4]
October 18	at No. 7 Navy*	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	L 0–14	45,000	^[5]
October 25	Colgate*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 21–2		^[6]
November 1	at Columbia	Baker Field New York, NY (rivalry)	L 0–7	15,000	^[7]
November 8	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 21–7	18,000	^[8]
November 15	Dartmouth	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 33–19	18,000	^[9]
November 22	at No. 13 Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)	L 0–16	74,000	^[10]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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