1939 Syracuse Orangemen football team

The 1939 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1939 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Ossie Solem and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. The team was co-captained by guard Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty, who would later become a Hall-of-Fame-inducted coach at Michigan State. The Daily Orange predicted before the season that Syracuse will beat all the team except Duke.[2]

1939 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
1939 record3–3–2
Head coach
CaptainDuffy Daugherty & William Hoffman[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Cornell      8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne      8 0 1
Scranton      7 0 2
Princeton      7 1 0
La Salle      6 1 1
Penn State      5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College      9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham      6 2 0
Villanova      6 2 0
Hofstra      4 3 0
Brown      5 3 1
Dartmouth      5 3 1
NYU      5 4 0
Pittsburgh      5 4 0
Harvard      4 4 0
Manhattan      4 4 0
Penn      4 4 0
Syracuse      3 3 2
Tufts      3 4 1
Yale      3 4 1
Army      3 4 2
Bucknell      3 5 0
Carnegie Tech      3 5 0
Columbia      2 4 2
Massachusetts State      2 5 2
Colgate      2 5 1
Temple      2 7 0
Buffalo      0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 29ClarksonW 12–015,000
October 7at CornellL 6–1924,000
October 14Georgetown
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
T 13–1315,000
October 21at No. 13 DukeL 6–3325,000
October 28Penn State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
T 6–616,000
November 4Michigan State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 3–1416,000
November 18Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 7–028,000
November 30at MarylandW 10–75,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time

Sources:[3][1]

References

  1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 147.
  2. "Syracuse Football Duke Daily Orange 1939". Star-Gazette. Elmira, New York. 11 May 1939. p. 29. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. "1939 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.


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