| 1988Cornell Big Red football | |
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Ivy League co-champion | |
| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 7–2–1 (6–1 Ivy) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Eddie Wilson (6th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Pete Noyes (8th season) |
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| Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
Seasons | |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell + | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 4 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale | 3 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 0 | – | 6 | – | 1 | 0 | – | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1988 Cornell Big Red football team representedCornell University in the1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of theIvy League. The Big Red were led by sixth-year head coachMaxie Baughan and played their home games atSchoellkopf Field. The Big Red finished the season 7–2–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to win Cornell's second Ivy League championship, sharing the title withPenn.[1]
Cornell began the season dubbed by sports analysts to have Ivy League championship potential[2] and coach Maxie Baughan described his team as "the sleeping giant of the Ivy League."[3] The Big Red eventually entered the final week of the season, in which they would face their undefeatedrivalPenn, having lost two games and tied one; Penn was the last remaining undefeated Division I-AA football team in 1988 and had won or shared the Ivy League title five times in the previous six seasons. During the game, which Cornell would have to win to share the conference title with Penn, ninepersonal fouls were assessed between the two teams. Cornell eventually broke a 3–3 halftime tie to deliver Penn's first defeat of the season and win a share of the Ivy League title for the first time since1971.[4]
The 1988 season was Maxie Baughan's sixth and final season as head coach of the Cornell Big Red; he resigned in early 1989 after allegations surfaced that the married Baughan had a romantic relationship with top assistant coach Peter Noyes' wife. Baughan cited "personal tensions" as the rationale for his decision.[5] Assistant coachJack Fouts was appointed head coach shortly thereafter.[6]
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 17 | Princeton | L 17–26 | 12,000 | [7] | |
| September 24 | Colgate* |
| W 17–14 | 14,000 | [8] |
| October 1 | atLehigh* | L 14–27 | 13,000 | [9] | |
| October 8 | atHarvard | W 19–17 | 2,000 | [10] | |
| October 15 | Brown |
| W 35–0 | 11,000 | [11] |
| October 22 | atDartmouth | W 24–7 | 3,222 | [12] | |
| October 29 | atLafayette* | T 21–21 | 9,500 | [13] | |
| November 5 | Yale |
| W 26–0 | 15,000 | [14] |
| November 12 | atColumbia | W 42–19 | 8,308 | [15] | |
| November 19 | Penn |
| W 19–6 | 18,000 | [3] |
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