Jim Hanchett
Echos of The Hudson Valley and Crescent-Shaped Drama
It estimated the crowd at Columbia as “about 400 persons.” It added that “The day was perfect and the field for the most part in good condition.”
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Big Red Bear Meets Brown BruinBy Jim Hanchett '53 | Big Red Historian
Cornell won its first Brown game, 4-0, in 1895, in Ithaca. They didn’t meet again until 1914 — at the Polo Grounds in New York City, and won, 28-7, in an 8-2 season. Brown was 5-2-2. In ’15, Cornell went 9-0, ending Harvard’s three-year unbeaten streak and supplanting the Crimson as tops in the nation.…
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CORNELL! BUCKNELL! YELL YELL YELL!By Jim Hanchett '53 | Big Red Historian
Christy Mathewson stood tall among John McGraw’s New York (baseball) Giants of the early 20th century. He was one of the first five to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame, but may not be widely known for football prowess. Still, he was a Walter Camp “12th All-America” in 1900. It turns out he was a…
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The Big Three of Central New YorkBy Jim Hanchett '53 | Big Red Historian
A certain sign that autumn is in the air of the Vale of Onondaga, the busy humming of a bustling town and the Chenango Valley, when store windows of Salina Street, State Street and Hamilton begin to display photos of the gridiron gladiators of Syracuse, Cornell and Colgate — the Big Three of Central New…
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Harvard vs. Cornell | A Series of Many BouncesBy Jim Hanchett '53 | Big Red Historian
The first time Cornell and Harvard footballers met — in 1890, before the Ithacans had a regular coach — Harvard prevailed in the land of the bean and the cod — 77-0. That was a 7-4 year for C.U., the year after its first Michigan game, in which Cornell was victorious, 66-0, in Buffalo, a…
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