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1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team

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1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1–1
Head coach
CaptainAlf Cobb
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
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 RegimentT 0–04,000
October 647th Infantry Regiment
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 19–0
October 13Rutgers
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 14–10
October 20PittsburghL 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 AgriculturalW 21–7
November 29at NebraskaW 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.