1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1–1
Head coach
CaptainAlf Cobb
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
Seasons
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1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
Buffalo   –   4 – 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 2947th Infantry Regiment
T 0–04,000
October 647th Infantry Regiment
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 19–0
October 13Rutgers
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 14–10
October 20Pittsburgh
L 0–2810,000[3]
October 27Tufts
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 58–0
November 3at Brown
W 6–05,000[4]
November 10Bucknell
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 42–0[5]
November 17Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 27–716,000
November 24at Michigan Agricultural
W 21–7
November 29at Nebraska
W 10–910,000

References

  1. ^ "1917 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Syracuse Would Play Georgia Tech". Pittsburgh Daily Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 24, 1917. p. 8. Retrieved November 29, 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 icon.
  5. ^ "Syracuse Hands Bucknell Jolt". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 11, 1917. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.


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