1920 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1920 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainDoc Alexander
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1920 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Boston College   –   8 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   6 – 0 – 1
Penn State   –   7 – 0 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 0 – 2
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
  –   6 – 2 – 1
Geneva   –   5 – 2 – 1
New Hampshire   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   6 – 3 – 1
Penn   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   5 – 3 – 0
Holy Cross   –   5 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   5 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   5 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   3 – 2 – 2
Boston University   –   4 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 4 – 0
Duquesne   –   3 – 3 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   0 – 4 – 4
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 7 – 0
Buffalo   –   1 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   1 – 5 – 2
Villanova   –   1 – 5 – 1
Drexel   –   0 – 6 – 0

The 1920 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1920 college football season.[1] The team was led by first-year head coach Chick Meehan.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25HobartW 55–7
October 2Vermont
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 49–0[2]
October 9Johns Hopkins
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 45–0
October 16Pittsburgh
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
T 7–715,000–20,000[3]
October 23at DartmouthHanover, NHW 10–0
October 30at Holy CrossL 0–310,000
November 6Washington & Jefferson
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 14–012,000
November 13vs. MarylandL 7–103,500[4]
November 20Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 14–017,500–18,000[5]

References

  1. ^ "1920 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Syracuse revels against Vermont". New York Herald. October 3, 1920. Retrieved June 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "All Attendance Records Broken By Panthers in Games This Year". The Pittsburgh Post. November 26, 1920. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Maryland Pulls Real Surprise By Whipping Syracuse". The Baltimore Sun. November 14, 1920. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Colgate Makes Game Fight But Lacks Power To Check Varied Attack of Orange". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 21, 1920. p. 46 – via Newspapers.com.