1938 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1938 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Ossie Solem (2nd season)
Captain	James Bruett [1]
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
Seasons ←  1937 1939  →

1938 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 18 Villanova			–					8	–	0	–	1
No. 9 Holy Cross			–					8	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	2
No. 12 Cornell			–					5	–	1	–	1
Army			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 8 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	2	–	0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
No. 20 Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	3	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	0
CCNY			–					4	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					3	–	2	–	3
Manhattan			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
La Salle			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston University			–					3	–	4	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	1
Princeton			–					3	–	4	–	1
Hofstra			–					2	–	3	–	1
Duquesne			–					4	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	6	–	1
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					3	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					2	–	6	–	0
Yale			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	6	–	1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1938 college football season. The Orangemen were led by second-year head coach Ossie Solem and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse beat Colgate on November 5 at Archbold Stadium, the first in the Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry since 1924. ^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	Clarkson		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 27–0	15,000
October 8	Maryland		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 53–0	12,000	[3]
October 15	Cornell		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 19–17	25,000
October 22	at Michigan State	No. 10	Macklin Field East Lansing, MI	L 12–19	18,000
October 29	at Penn State		New Beaver Field University Park, PA (rivalry)	L 6–33	10,659
November 5	Colgate		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 7–0	35,000	[2]
November 12	No. 7 Duke		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 0–21	27,500
November 19	at Columbia		Baker Field New York, NY	W 13–12	20,000	[4]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 146.
2. "Syracuse Daily Orange Has a Record Edition". Elizabethtown Chronicle. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. December 23, 1938. p. 2. Retrieved November 29, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
3. Vasudevan, Anish (23 October 2022). "'AS EVER, SINGH': Wilmeth Sidat-Singh was Syracuse's 1st Black star athlete". The Daily Orange . Retrieved 25 October 2022.
4. Daley, Arthur J. (November 20, 1938). "Syracuse Tops Columbia, 13-12; Kick Checks Lions". The New York Times . New York, N.Y. p. S1.
5. "1938 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.