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1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1–1
Head coach
CaptainAlf Cobb
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
Seasons← 19161918 →
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.

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
October 27Tufts
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 58–0
November 3at BrownW 6–05,000
November 10Bucknell
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 42–0
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.
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