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The 1921 Cornell Big Red football team was an
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team that represented
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as an independent during the 1921 college football season. In its second season under head coach
Gil Dobie Robert Gilmour "Gloomy Gil" Dobie (January 21, 1878 – December 23, 1948) was an American football player and coach. Over a period of 33 years, he served as the head football coach at North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State ...
, Cornell compiled an 8–0 record, shut out five of eight opponents (including a 110–0 win over
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), and outscored all opponents by a total of 392 to 21. The 1921 season was part of 26-game winning streak that continued until October 1924 and included national championship claims for 1921, 1922, and 1923. There was no contemporaneous system in 1921 for determining a national champion. However, Cornell was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and
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, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Fullback
Eddie Kaw Edgar Lawrence Kaw (January 18, 1897 – December 13, 1971) was an American football player. He attended Cornell University, where he was a prominent halfback on coach Gil Dobie's Cornell Big Red football team, graduating in 1923. He was a shift ...
was a consensus first-team selection on the 1921 All-American football team. Tackle Wilson S. Dodge was the team captain. Multiple Cornell players received All-Eastern honors: Kaw; quarterback
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; halfbacks Floyd Ramsey and G.P. Lechler; ends Charles E. Cassidy and David Munns; guard Leonard C. Hanson; and tackle Wilson S. Dodge.


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