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In the mid-1900s, one CALS department changed our holiday tables\u2014and an industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, two years before Cornell\u2019s founding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u2014with the exception of a couple wartime years in the 1940s\u2014it\u2019s one of the few holidays that has been observed since the University opened to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first half of the 20th century, the closest thing Cornell had to a holiday tradition was its annual Thanksgiving Day football game against Penn, first played in 1895.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event became an end-of-season tradition for the two teams and their alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It often attracted crowds numbering in the tens of thousands to Philadelphia; estimates for the 1938 game put the attendance at 70,000 (for an anticlimactic 0-0 tie).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 1936 Cornell-Penn game.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Perhaps the biggest legacy of the Cornell-Penn game? Campbell\u2019s soup cans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A company executive allegedly attended one of those first Thanksgiving games and was inspired by Cornell\u2019s red-and-white colors. The new branding debuted in 1898.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 2007, Thanksgiving weekend for the Big Red has been focused on men\u2019s ice hockey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Hot Hockey<\/a> showdown with Boston University is held biennially in Madison Square Garden, with the alternating years dubbed the Frozen Apple, played against other teams since 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A Big Red legacy?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Make sure to get your tickets<\/a> for this year\u2019s game!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even if you aren\u2019t attending a Big Red sporting event, your Thanksgiving feast may well have a Cornell connection: the turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Rice 1890 is believed to be the first person to write a bachelor\u2019s degree thesis on poultry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Prof.
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Chick magnet? Prof. James Rice 1890.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Then hired by what\u2019s now CALS, he taught the first college course dedicated to poultry in spring 1892 and was eventually appointed chair of poultry husbandry\u2014the first such department in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rice would organize the first poultry judging school; conduct the first poultry extension work; help found the Poultry Science Association; and publish books such as Practical Poultry Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the most influential leaders in the field, he was an inaugural inductee of the Poultry Science Hall of Fame in 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell\u2019s poultry science building opened in 1912 without a name\u2014but was later rededicated in Rice\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cornell\u2019s pioneering department would graduate the first PhD student with a thesis on poultry and have an enormous impact on the field and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renamed the Department of Poultry Science (and later of Poultry and Avian Sciences), it eventually closed in 1991, with faculty dispersed to Animal Science, Food Science, Nutritional Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The future Rice Hall the year it opened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But not before changing our Thanksgiving tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1940s, Cornell opened a turkey farm east of campus\u2014coincidentally, on what was already named Turkey Hill Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor Earl Smith supervised the farm and a breeding program, developing what he considered the ideal turkey while leading state and national efforts to improve the birds\u2019 health, productivity, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1940s, Cornell opened a turkey farm east of campus\u2014coincidentally, on what was already named Turkey Hill Road.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hoping to better both the meat quality of the White Holland variety and the reproductive ability of the Broad Breasted Bronze, he bred the two together to create the Empire White, the first type of Broad Breasted White turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(The white feathers were considered more attractive by consumers, thus increasing market value.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith was also a pioneer in the artificial insemination of the birds\u2014since the out-of-proportion shape of the new breeds made them unable to procreate without assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Earl Smith (right) and research associate Mary Holmes Moon \u201956 with an Empire White at the turkey farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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His new breed was first available for Thanksgiving nationally in 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the following decade, the Broad Breasted White became the commercial standard, according to The Turkey: An American Story<\/em><\/a>. It still is today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell\u2019s efforts helped make turkey economical as a year-round food, not just for holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cornell\u2019s efforts helped make turkey economical as a year-round food, not just for holidays.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(Of course, the best-known star of Cornell\u2019s poultry program was the famed Professor Robert Baker \u201943<\/a>, whose chicken sausage, chicken hot dogs, chicken patties, or other innovations might make an appearance in any celebratory feast.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re looking for inspiration for your Thanksgiving side dishes\u2014or perhaps a meatless alternative to turkey\u2014two outstanding options would be a pair of Cornell-bred squashes: the Bush Delicata<\/a> and the color-changing honeynut<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The honeynut squash begins as bright green, turning orange to signal peak ripeness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The delicata offers a sweet and nutty flavor combined with fungal resistance and a long shelf life, created through open-pollination instead of hybridization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entering national markets in 2015, the honeynut is a hybrid of butternut and buttercup squash, with improved nutrition and texture, thanks to the efforts of plant breeder Michael Mazourek, PhD \u201908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Red potato researchers\u2014including professors Robert Plaisted ’50 the late Nell Mondy, PhD \u201953<\/a>, both honorary life members of the Potato Association of America\u2014have also contributed generations of work to improve disease resistance, flavor, and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So your mashed potatoes have likely benefitted from Cornell expertise as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And once you\u2019re done with the main course, the University\u2019s apple breeding program offers a range of options for dessert. If you\u2019re baking a pie, might I suggest using Empire, Jonagold, or Liberty<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Prof. Nell Mondy, PhD \u201953.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bon app\u00e9tit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An expert on Big Red lore,\u00a0<\/em>Corey Ryan Earle \u201907<\/em><\/a>\u00a0teaches \u201cThe First American University,\u201d a wildly popular spring semester course on Cornell history.<\/em>
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Top: A flock of broad-breasted white turkeys. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published November 13, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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