2002 Cornell Big Red football team

American college football season

2002 Ivy League football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 17 Penn $	7	–	0	9	–	1
Harvard	6	–	1	7	–	3
Princeton	4	–	3	6	–	4
Yale	4	–	3	6	–	4
Cornell	3	–	4	4	–	6
Dartmouth	2	–	5	3	–	7
Brown	2	–	5	2	–	8
Columbia	0	–	7	1	–	9

$ – Conference champion Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2002 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2002 NCAA Division I-AA football season. They were led by third-year head coach Tim Pendergast and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. They finished the season 4–6 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play, finishing fifth.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21	7:00 p.m.	at Bucknell*	Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA	L 3–14	6,922
September 28	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 23–50	13,224
October 5	1:00 p.m.	Towson*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 34–31	4,242
October 12	1:00 p.m.	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 23–52	6,533
October 19	6:00 p.m.	Colgate*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 13–42	5,642
October 26	1:00 p.m.	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 10–7	7,014
November 2	1:00 p.m.	Princeton	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 25–32
November 9	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 21–19
November 16	12:30 p.m.	at Columbia	Wien Stadium New York, NY (rivalry)	W 17–14	2,715
November 23	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 0–31	4,090
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

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^ "2002 Football Schedule". Retrieved March 11, 2016.
"Cornell 17, Columbia 14". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. Associated Press. November 17, 2002. p. C14 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Cornell Big Red Schedule 2002". ESPN. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
"2002 Football Schedule". Cornell University Athletics. Retrieved August 9, 2024.

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