Cornell vs Brown University football game 2017

The 2017 Cornell Big Red football team represented

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

in the

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as a member of the

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. They were led by fifth-year head coach David Archer and played their home games at

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. Cornell finished the season 3–7 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play to tie for fifth place. Cornell averaged 6,793 fans per gam.

Schedule

The 2017 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Big Red hosted Ivy League foes

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

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, and Columbia, and traveled to

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

Princeton Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the Unit ...

, Dartmouth, and Penn.

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coincided with the game against Brown on October 21. In 2017, Cornell's non-conference opponents were

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...

of the

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, and Colgate and Bucknell of the

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Game summaries

Delaware

Yale

Colgate

Harvard

Bucknell

Brown

Princeton

Dartmouth

Columbia

Penn

References

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Cornell Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since ...

Cornell Big Red football seasons

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