Category: Cornell Big Red
Cornell picked to finish last in Ivy League football poll
Coaches don't put a lot of stock in preseason poll.
Accentuating the formidable nature of new coach Kent Austin's rebuilding project at Cornell, the Big Red was picked to finish last in the 2010 Ivy League preseason football poll, voted on by media m… more »
Kent Austin Discusses Future Plans for C.U. Football
New head football coach sits down with The Sun and talks about his strategy at the helm of the Red.
The Sun: What would you say, in general, are your goals for the 2010 season?
Kent Austin: Well obviously we want to be winners on the football fiel… more »
Ivy League looks to expand TV coverage
Ivy League sporting events may be coming soon to a television set near you.
In an effort to reach out to a wider fan base, Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris said the league is in talks with multiple national cable and satellite television ne… more »
Cornell's Football Coaches Expected to be Cohesive Staff
Big Red retains three assistants.
ITHACA -- Experience is definitely the theme of Kent Austin's new coaching staff.
The new Cornell football coach has brought in five new assistant coaches and a quality control coach for the 2010 season. Three coa… more »
FCS Experience Counts... In Olympic Bobsledding
In Vancouver, Jamie Moriarity, a former All-Ivy safety at Cornell, prepares to drive his bobsled down the fastest track in the world.
For Jamie Moriarty, it took walking into the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics to realize he'd made it.
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New Cornell Football Coach: 'I Didn't Come Here to Lose'
Austin confident he can lift Cornell program.
ITHACA -- Kent Austin was asked how he planned on turning around a program that hasn't won an Ivy League title in 20 years. Cornell's new football coach paused to collect himself before answering.
Then… more »
Kent Austin Introduced This Morning as Cornell's 26th Head Coach
ITHACA -- Kent Austin, who spent the last two years as offensive coordinator at the University of Mississippi, was introduced this morning as Cornell's 26th head football coach at an hour-long press conference in the university's Hall of Fame room.
A… more »
Cornell Head Coach Resigns To Become Defensive Coordinator at Duke
Jim Knowles '87 has resigned his position as The Roger J. Weiss '61 Coach of Football at Cornell and has accepted the defensive coordinator position at Duke University. A national search for a new head coach will begin immediately. Knowles took over the… more »
Colgate Plows Through Cornell to 45-23 Victory
HAMILTON, N.Y. — Déjà vu must have set in for the football team early in the first quarter when Colgate sophomore tailback Nate Eachus ran for a 10-yard score. The setting changed, as did some of the players, but the outcome certainly didn’t; for the se… more »
Patriot Games: Scholarships Pose Threat to the Ivy Way
Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-confere… more »
Harvard Reduces Sports Travel as Ivys Cut Athletics to ‘Core’
Dartmouth College, where former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was an All Ivy football player in the 1960s, has scrapped a $15 million stadium renovation project as its sports endowment plunged as much as 18 percent.
Harvard University, the wea… more »
New Ivy League Commissioner Not Rushing into Football Playoff Debate
After about the third time I rephrased the same question, Robin Harris couldn’t mistake the direction of the conversation Friday.
Harris, the new executive director/commissioner of the Ivy League, who replaced Jeffrey Orleans on July 1, gently rebuke… more »
Local FB Players Prepare for Next (FCS) Level
There's a decent possibility Emmitt Terrell will be downright sick of running by the time August 17 rolls around. That's when the former State College standout reports to Cornell for his first college practice.
In the meantime, Terrell will continue… more »
Can the Ivy League Get Its Game Back?
Lackluster teams prompt calls for change; a new chief’s listening tour.
The schools of the Ivy League are among the nation’s finest and richest, with billions in endowments under their command. From law to business to medicine, they’re No. 1 in pract… more »