2008 Cornell Big Red football team

The 2008 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. Cornell finished the season 4–6, 2–5 in Ivy League play, to finish in sixth place. Cornell averaged 7,075 fans per game.

2008 Cornell Big Red football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	4–6 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach	Jim Knowles (5th season)
Offensive coordinator	Bruce Barnum (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Clayton Carlin (2nd season)
Captain	Tommy Bleymaier, Nathan Ford, Graham Rihn
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field
Seasons ← 2007 2009 →

2008 Ivy League football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 15 Harvard +		6	–	1					9	–	1
Brown +		6	–	1					7	–	3
Penn		5	–	2					6	–	4
Yale		4	–	3					6	–	4
Princeton		3	–	4					4	–	6
Cornell		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					2	–	8
Dartmouth		0	–	7					0	–	10
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from The Sports Network poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	6:00 p.m.	at Bucknell*	Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA		W 21–20	5,173	^[1]
September 27	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		W 17–14	13,142	^[2]
October 4	12:30 p.m.	at Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA		W 25–24	10,460	^[3]
October 11	Noon	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	Versus	L 17–38	11,263	^[4]
October 18	1:00 p.m.	Colgate*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		L 22–38	8,542	^[5]
October 25	12:30 p.m.	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI		L 7–27	9,298	^[6]
November 1	1:00 p.m.	Princeton	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		L 26–31	7,122	^[7]
November 8	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		W 37–14	4,132	^[8]
November 15	12:30 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY (rivalry)		L 7–17	3,811	^[9]
November 22	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		L 6–23	2,437	^[10]
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

References

1. Thomas, Brandon (September 22, 2008). "Blocked PAT Lifts Cornell in Opener". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. pp. 1C, 2C – via Newspapers.com.
2. Thomas, Brandon (September 28, 2008). "Big Red Washes Out Yale". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
3. Groller, Keith (October 5, 2008). "Bitter End ... Again for Lehigh". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
4. Blaudschun, Mark (October 12, 2008). "Crimson in Thick of It". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. C19 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Thomas, Brandon (October 20, 2008). "'Back to Square One': Behind Backup RB, Colgate Runs Roughshod over Big Red". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. pp. 1C, 2C – via Newspapers.com.
6. "2008 Football Schedule". Retrieved March 11, 2016.
7. Thomas, Brandon (November 3, 2008). "Big Red on Wrong End of a Wild Finish". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. pp. 1C, 2C – via Newspapers.com.
8. Thomas, Brandon (November 10, 2008). "Blocked Kicks Spur Big Red Past Dartmouth". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 1C – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Knowlin's Punt Return Clinches Columbia Win over CU". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. November 17, 2008. pp. 1C, 2C – via Newspapers.com.
10. Scurria, Andrew (November 23, 2008). "Quakers Finish by Stopping Cornell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. p. E5 – via Newspapers.com.