1937 Syracuse Orangemen football team

American college football season

1937 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–2–1
Head coach	Ossie Solem (1st season)
Captain	Walter Rekstis, Parker Webster
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
Seasons← 1936 1938 →

1937 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 1 Pittsburgh		–		9	–	0	–	1
No. 6 Villanova		–		8	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Fordham		–		7	–	0	–	1
No. 7 Dartmouth		–		7	–	0	–	2
No. T–14 Holy Cross		–		8	–	0	–	2
St. Thomas (PA)		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Yale		–		6	–	1	–	1
Army		–		7	–	2	–	0
Boston University		–		6	–	2	–	0
Cornell		–		5	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		5	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		5	–	2	–	1
CCNY		–		5	–	2	–	0
No. 12 Manhattan		–		6	–	3	–	1
Penn State		–		5	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	0
NYU		–		5	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		3	–	2	–	4
Boston College		–		4	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	3	–	2
Buffalo		–		4	–	4	–	0
Princeton		–		4	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Colgate		–		3	–	5	–	0
Columbia		–		2	–	5	–	2
Hofstra		–		2	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		2	–	5	–	1
Penn		–		2	–	5	–	1
Providence		–		2	–	6	–	0
Vermont		–		2	–	6	–	0
La Salle		–		2	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts State		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1937 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1937 college football season. The Orangemen were led by first-year head coach Ossie Solem and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. On October 18, Syracuse made its first ever appearance in the AP Poll, which was in its second year of operation. The team was ranked 17th in the first poll of the season, but dropped from the poll after a loss to Maryland.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance
October 1	Clarkson		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 26–6	16,000
October 9	St. Lawrence		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 40–0	15,000
October 16	at Cornell		Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 14–6	18,000
October 23	vs. Maryland	No. 17	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	L 0–13	10,000
October 30	Penn State		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 19–13	18,000
November 6	Western Reserve		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 27–6	17,000
November 13	at Columbia		Baker Field New York, NY	T 6–6	12,000
November 20	Colgate		Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 0–7	34,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time

Maryland game and Wilmeth Sidat-Singh

Syracuse and nearby Cornell were among the first collegiate football teams to include African-American players as starting backfield players. Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, starred for Syracuse, playing a position equivalent to modern-day quarterback.

In that era, when games were played in Southern segregation states, African-American players from Northern schools were banned from the field. Because of his light complexion and name, Sidat-Singh was sometimes assumed to be a "Hindu" (as people from India were often called by Americans during this time). However. shortly before a game against the University of Maryland, a black sportswriter, Sam Lacy, wrote an article in the Baltimore Afro-American, revealing Sidat-Singh's was African-American. Maryland refused to let him play and he was held out of the game and Syracuse lost the game 0-13. In a rematch the following year at Syracuse, Sidat-Singh led the Orange to a lopsided victory (53-0) over Maryland.

On Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, the University of Maryland publicly apologized to surviving relatives at a ceremony during a football game at Syracuse.

References

^ Mike Morrison, ed. (July 7, 2017). "2017 Football Media Guide" (PDF) (Press release). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Athletics. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
^ Rice, Grantland (October 16, 1938). "Syracuse tops Cornell team in last period". The Baltimore Sun. p. 24. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
"Maryland victor over Syracuse, 13–0". The Baltimore Sun. October 24, 1937. Retrieved December 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
Effrat, Louis (November 14, 1937). "Brilliant Syracuse Lateral Ties Columbia Eleven, 6-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
"1937 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
^ 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.
Rhiannon Walker. "Amending a Wrong". SBS Stories Beneath the Shell News. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
Barker, Jeff (November 8, 2013). "Maryland football trying to do right by Sidat-Singh, 76 years later". Baltimore Sun. College Park, MD. Retrieved May 26, 2020.

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