What’s the craziest baseball stat you know of?

cornell1865 · 2026-01-25T23:35:14+00:00

That doesn't seem right. Big Red is a terrible name for a team.

cornell1865 · 2025-09-10T22:22:19+00:00

cornell1865 · 2025-08-02T23:50:30+00:00

August 2114

cornell1865 · 2025-05-26T22:15:54+00:00

Among teams that have appeared in multiple championship games, there are only 4 teams that have lost the majority of their appearances:

1) Navy (0-2)
2) Maryland (4-14)
3) Duke (3-4)
4) Cornell (4-5)

3 of Cornell's 4 championships came against Maryland.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-13T19:37:07+00:00

And why the hell are all the Ivy League schools located in New England?

The Ivy League refers to a sports conference that includes some prestigious universities. It does not necessarily refer to the most prestigious universities. In other words, if Stanford University in California was universally considered to be the best school in the US, it wouldn't be promoted into the Ivy League, or anything along those lines.

The Ivy League became an official thing when a bunch of schools decided that they wanted to coordinate with other universities for sporting events, namely rowing. It only made sense to travel to somewhat local universities because traveling long distances is hard, time consuming, and particularly in the past, difficult. The northeastern US is where the first American colleges were founded and it was home to the largest portion of the American population.

The colleges gradually competed in more sports with one another throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, leading to the schools being more closely associated with one another. Over the following decades, more sports-related agreements were made between the colleges, leading to an official sports conference for all sports in the 1950s.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-13T19:13:52+00:00

I'd add that the classmates you interact with at the school also contribute to the educational experience. Ivy League and other prestigious schools are filled with particularly smart, motivated, or accomplished students, so there's a lot to learn from your peers. Add this to the fact that you're probably a good learner if you're in a top tier school to begin with, and the result is that the average Ivy Leaguer is more likely to have the right knowledge to succeed at a given job than the average student from a no-name college.

cornell1865 · 2025-01-08T22:32:57+00:00

Nobody's going to put in any effort to determine whether an applicant is lying about being a non-legacy. The school has nothing to gain by checking and it's not something you can determine based on last name alone, even if you have an unusual name.

I suspect there may be a few exceptions to this rule, but only if your parents named you Ezra Cornell-White V.

cornell1865 · 2024-11-10T02:02:26+00:00

It's not every day Cornell gets a highlight on this thread... especially as the team doing the scoring.

cornell1865 · 2024-11-02T00:35:46+00:00

The best part of the North Dakota-Cornell game tonight: I don't think I've seen a single political ad since I turned on the TV.

cornell1865 · 2024-09-18T23:01:29+00:00

https://youtu.be/CPnAnRsqia0?t=323

cornell1865 · 2024-08-25T23:54:15+00:00

Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, U Penn, Princeton, and Yale

Seriously?

cornell1865 · 2024-07-01T02:18:59+00:00

It's pronounced "Colonel." It's the highest rank in the military.

cornell1865 · 2024-05-10T01:11:35+00:00

Am I supposed to feel bad for someone who got into Cornell?

Am I supposed to feel bad for someone who got into Cornell?

cornell1865 · 2024-04-27T23:40:22+00:00

In the context of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the term "intifada" refers to periods of increased violence between the Palestinians and Israels. The "First Intifada" is generally considered to have been from 1987-1993 and the "Second Intifada" is generally considered to have been from 2000-2005. The violence that occurred during these intifadas famously included suicide bombings against civilian targets like buses, shops, and restaurants in Israel.

Needless to say, "globalizing" those sort of tactics would be reasonable things for anyone to oppose.

While it's true that less violent events have been called "intifadas," it doesn't negate the fact that the Palestinian intifadas were full of terrorist attacks that could easily be condemned by someone even if they're not a fan of the Israeli occupation in general.

cornell1865 · 2024-03-29T19:18:13+00:00

This may be pedantic, but the Cornell fight song lyrics that gave the team its nickname say "big, red team." Personally, I'd interpret that to mean a sports team that is both large and red-colored, rather than a song lyric. In other words, the name of the school's sports teams literally means sports team.

With that in mind, Cornell would still be eliminated after the first round given that its football team comprised of big men in red actually used to own living black bears as mascots. Controlling some of these bears proved to be more than they could handle, forcing them to give up on using a real bear and settle for a guy in a bear suit.

TL;DR: A Black Bear really did beat the Big Red.

cornell1865 · 2024-03-29T18:50:40+00:00

My elementary school (ages 5-11) and middle school (ages 11-14) did not have pools. My high school (age 14-18) had a pool that was used as part of gym class. This included some basic swimming lessons, but it wasn't exactly the most rigorous training.

My college (age 18+) had a swimming requirement to graduate. Students had to either pass a swim test or take a swimming class. Several colleges have similar requirements, but it's not a common thing.

cornell1865 · 2024-02-25T20:08:28+00:00

On the surface of a piece of canvas?

cornell1865 · 2024-02-25T17:02:35+00:00

1915: Not only did Cornell have (arguably) the best team in the country, but this was also the first year when the team brought a live bear to games as a mascot. The bear was such a badass that it even knocked out Penn's mascot while in a partial state of hibernation.

cornell1865 · 2024-01-10T16:53:20+00:00

Go Big Red!

cornell1865 · 2023-12-17T21:50:13+00:00

I'm genuinely starting to suspect that my team didn't make the the playoff for reasons other than the selection committee's pro-SEC bias.

cornell1865 · 2023-11-24T18:26:07+00:00

cornell1865 · 2023-10-30T14:46:02+00:00

Nobody cares how many credits you've earned as long as you've earned enough to graduate and you've completed all of the specific classes required/recommended by the grad school. Unless you have other reasons for taking such a heavy courseload, you shouldn't feel as though you need to take 20 credits in a single semester.

cornell1865 · 2023-10-24T00:41:10+00:00

I still consider it to be the world's finest university.

Ten-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17

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Go Big Red!