Cornell vs. Union (NY)
Cornell and Union (NY) first met in 1888 and have played 8 times; Cornell leads the series 8–0. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Cornell 8–0, and Cornell has won the last 8. Share
- Cornell wins
- 8
- Union (NY) wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1888
- Longest streak
- 8 Cornell
- Current streak
- 8 Cornell
- Last 10 meetings
- Cornell 8–0
- Most recent
- 1920
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1890s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 31 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Cornell
- 7–0 Cornell’s record at home
- At Union (NY)
- 0–1 Union (NY)‘s record at home
- Shutouts
- 7
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Cornell’s biggest win1920: Cornell 60, Union (NY) 0by 60 points
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1893 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 15, 1893
1900 · Akron daily Democrat, Akron, Ohio, Oct 22, 1900
1920 · The Washington herald, Oct 17, 1920
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 16, 1920 | Cornell 60, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 4, 1902 | Cornell 42, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 12, 1901 | Cornell 24, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 20, 1900 | Cornell 11, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 6, 1894 | Cornell 37, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 14, 1893 | Cornell 18, Union (NY) 6 | at Cornell | ||
| Oct 4, 1890 | Cornell 32, Union (NY) 0 | at Union (NY) | ||
| Nov 3, 1888 | Cornell 30, Union (NY) 0 | at Cornell |
Every game is listed as played on the field.