1938 Syracuse Orangemen football team

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. This was a year when Syracuse beat Colgate after 14 years of rivalry.[2]

1938 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
1938 record5–3
Head coach
CaptainJames Bruett[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1938 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
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
Brown      5 3 0
Bucknell      5 3 0
Syracuse      5 3 0
Penn      3 2 3
Manhattan      5 4 0
Harvard      4 4 0
La Salle      4 4 0
NYU      4 4 0
Penn State      3 4 1
Princeton      3 4 1
Hofstra      2 3 1
Duquesne      4 6 0
Temple      3 6 1
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

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
September 30ClarksonW 27–015,000
October 8Maryland
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 53–012,000
October 15Cornell
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 19–1725,000
October 22at Michigan StateNo. 10L 12–1918,000
October 29at Penn StateL 6–33
November 5Colgate[2]
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 7–035,000
November 12No. 7 Duke
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 0–2127,500
November 19at ColumbiaW 13–1220,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time

Sources:[3][1]

References

  1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 146.
  2. "Syracuse Daily Orange Has a Record Edition". Elizabethtown Chronicle. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. 23 December 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 29 November 2020 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "1938 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.


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