1938 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3
Head coach
CaptainJames Bruett[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
Seasons
← 1937
1939 →
1938 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Worcester Tech   –   6 – 0 – 0
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

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Clarkson
W 27–015,000
October 8Maryland
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 53–012,000[3]
October 15Cornell
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 19–1725,000
October 22at Michigan StateNo. 10
L 12–1918,000
October 29at Penn State
L 6–3310,659
November 5Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 7–035,000[2]
November 12No. 7 Duke
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 0–2127,500
November 19at Columbia
W 13–1220,000[4]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[5][1]

References

  1. ^ a b 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 146.
  2. ^ a b "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 (October 23, 2022). "'AS EVER, SINGH': Wilmeth Sidat-Singh was Syracuse's 1st Black star athlete". The Daily Orange. Retrieved October 25, 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.


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