1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team

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1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
1917 record8–1–1
Head coach
Captain Alf Cobb
Home stadium Archbold Stadium
Seasons
←  1916
1918  →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pittsburgh  – 10 –0 –0
Williams  – 7 –0 –1
Yale  – 3 –0 –0
Princeton  – 2 –0 –0
Syracuse  – 8 –1 –1
Army  – 7 –1 –0
Rutgers  – 7 –1 –1
Penn  – 9 –2 –0
Brown  – 8 –2 –0
Fordham  – 7 –2 –0
Lehigh  – 7 –2 –0
Boston College  – 6 –2 –0
Swarthmore  – 6 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 7 –3 –0
Colgate  – 4 –2 –0
Harvard  – 3 –1 –3
New Hampshire  – 3 –2 –2
Dartmouth  – 5 –3 –0
Geneva  – 5 –3 –1
Penn State  – 5 –4 –0
NYU  – 2 –2 –3
Tufts  – 3 –3 –0
Carnegie Tech  – 2 –3 –1
Bucknell  – 3 –5 –1
Lafayette  – 3 –5 –0
Holy Cross  – 3 –4 –0
Rhode Island State  – 2 –4 –2
Carlisle  – 3 –6 –0
Columbia  – 2 –4 –0
Delaware  – 2 –5 –0
Cornell  – 3 –6 –0
Franklin & Marshall  – 2 –6 –0
Villanova  – 0 –3 –2
Temple  – 0 –6 –1

The 1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1917 college football season. [1] [2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 47th Infantry Regiment
T 0–04,000
October 647th Infantry Regiment
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 19–0
October 13 Rutgers
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 14–10
October 20 Pittsburgh
L 0–2810,000 [3]
October 27 Tufts
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 58–0
November 3at Brown
W 6–05,000 [4]
November 10 Bucknell
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 42–0
November 17 Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 27–716,000
November 24at Michigan Agricultural
W 21–7
November 29at Nebraska
W 10–910,000

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References

  1. ↑ "1917 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results".
  2. ↑ "Syracuse Would Play Georgia Tech". Pittsburgh Daily Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 24 November 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 29 November 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Guy, Richard (October 21, 1917). "Blue and Gold Subdue Orangemen With Better Attack in Clean Game". The Gazette Times. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Brown Gets A Bump, Losing To Syracuse". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1917. p. 15. Retrieved March 14, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
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