Cornell football 2022

[French Rage]

Both of my schools beat Colgate this year, so that's a pretty good year.

[rss77]

Kudos to Wang on his game.  He is just fun to watch with both his running and passing.  Very remindful of Gary Wood back in the day.  Like Tillman at the running back position.  He has that extra burst of speed to get to the holes the offensive line creates.  All the same there is some cleaning up to do with the penalties and mistakes in the run game.  The run plays seemed to take too long to develop at key times.  Kennedy has an impressive leg-as good a kicker as Cornell has had in a while.  It wasn't pretty. Love beating Colgate and take the win. Bring on the Cantabs!

[George64]

Kudos to Wang on his game.  He is just fun to watch with both his running and passing.  Very remindful of Gary Wood back in the day.

In 1962, Gary Wood set the then Ivy League total offense record in a game against Penn with 387 yards, 207 rushing and 106 passing.  Wood also returned punts and kickoffs, so I suppose that accounted for the additional 74 yards.  Today, Wang had 98 net rushing and 284 passing yards, just shy of Wood's 387.  BTW, Jeff Mathews holds the current Cornell record with 528 yards, also against Penn, and third best in Ivy League history.  The game has certainly changed since the early 60's.
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[ugarte]

Second half of this game was a lot of fun. Whiffing on the third and 8 sack was infuriating but tbh Colgate did the exact same thing on our next drive. Huge FG for the win and a defensive stand at the end when it counted. Extension?

[CU2007]

Seems like we actually have a good quarterback. To have a bad team when you have a good player at by far the most important position to me means we are probably just totally undermanned skill wise at most of other positions on the field.

[mike1960]

What is it going to take to have a decent football team?

[underskill]

More money than the admin is going to be willing to invest.  Can't disagree w them. I'd rather spend it on mend hockey anyways.

[CU2007]

With what we know about brain trauma, many believe football to now be a dying sport. Cornell was just 30 years ahead of the curve.

[dbilmes]

The Cornell placekicker was named National Special Teams Player of the Week and our QB was named Ivy Offensive Player of the Week.

[Al DeFlorio]

With what we know about brain trauma, many believe football to now be a dying sport. Cornell was just 30 years ahead of the curve.

For many years Cornell's football helmets had padding on the outer surface.  Looked kind of goofy and have no idea if it helped:  https://www.google.com/search?q=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&oq=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&aqs=chrome..69i57.16873j0j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=TEsAzqByXVawoM

[George64]

With what we know about brain trauma, many believe football to now be a dying sport. Cornell was just 30 years ahead of the curve.

For many years Cornell's football helmets had padding on the outer surface.  Looked kind of goofy and have no idea if it helped:  https://www.google.com/search?q=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&oq=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&aqs=chrome..69i57.16873j0j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=TEsAzqByXVawoM

The helmets were pioneered by athletic trainer and Hall of Fame inductee Frank "Doc" Kavanaugh. Perhaps, like the crumple zone on cars, the exterior padding absorbs some of the initial impact of a collision?  Good question for eLynah engineers.
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[Al DeFlorio]

With what we know about brain trauma, many believe football to now be a dying sport. Cornell was just 30 years ahead of the curve.

For many years Cornell's football helmets had padding on the outer surface.  Looked kind of goofy and have no idea if it helped:  https://www.google.com/search?q=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&oq=gary+wood+cornell+in+helmet&aqs=chrome..69i57.16873j0j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=TEsAzqByXVawoM

The helmets were pioneered by athletic trainer and Hall of Fame inductee Frank "Doc" Kavanaugh. Perhaps, like the crumple zone on cars, the exterior padding absorbs some of the initial impact of a collision?  Good question for eLynah engineers.
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Another Cavanaugh idea was circular cleats for football shoes: https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19501206-01.2.52

[billhoward]

Things are looking up for the 2022 Big Red gridders after the 24-21 (sorry, Al) 34-31 win at Colgate. Cornell has already matched 2021's win total. Is .500 possible? Four and six? Lehigh, at Cornell in two weeks, is 1-4 and seems beatable. Take down two Ivy teams, that's a .500 season. Jameson Wang seems like the real deal at QB.

Can anybody be at least a little bit happy that Cornell has a winning team to date?

[billhoward]

Doc Kavananagh was ancient (I thought) when I met him in the seventies, but when you're 20, even someone at 50 seems aged. (He was the Saint Lawrence trainer in the twenties, so that made him in his seventies in the '70s.) I'm not sure if he got into the Cornell Hall of Fame for his contributions to sports safety or for an endless collection of off-color jokes. Take your pick.

A couple times when we stayed in the same hotel as the team, Kavanagh asked me and WVBR's Mark Liff to find a tailor or cleaner who'd press his slacks so he'd look good at the game. Funny guy, lively companion on the bus.

[Al DeFlorio]

Things are looking up for the 2022 Big Red gridders after the 24-21 win at Colgate. Cornell has already matched 2021's win total. Is .500 possible? Four and six? Lehigh, at Cornell in two weeks, is 1-4 and seems beatable. Take down two Ivy teams, that's a .500 season. Jameson Wang seems like the real deal at QB.

Can anybody be at least a little bit happy that Cornell has a winning team to date?

Geez, Bill.  Wins are rare enough that we should get the score right.::whistle::