1929 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1929 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainAlbert VanNess[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh   –   9 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   7 – 0 – 2
Bucknell   –   8 – 2 – 0
No. 11 Penn   –   7 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   7 – 2 – 1
Villanova   –   7 – 2 – 1
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 1 – 2
Harvard   –   5 – 2 – 1
Yale   –   5 – 2 – 1
NYU   –   7 – 3 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 3 – 0
  –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 2 – 2
Drexel   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   6 – 3 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 1
Army   –   6 – 4 – 1
Providence   –   3 – 3 – 2
Brown   –   5 – 5 – 0
Columbia   –   4 – 5 – 0
CCNY   –   2 – 4 – 2
Princeton   –   2 – 4 – 1
Boston University   –   3 – 6 – 0
Vermont   –   2 – 7 – 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1929 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Lew Andreas and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York.[2][1] Andreas was succeeded as football coach by Vic Hanson after the season, but remained as the Syracuse basketball coach for 21 more years.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28HobartW 77–025,000
October 5St. Lawrence
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 55–012,000
October 12Nebraska
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 6–1320,000
October 19Johns Hopkins
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 85–618,000
October 26at BrownW 6–0
November 2Penn State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
L 4–612,000
November 9Niagara
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 20–012,000
November 16Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
L 0–2135,000
November 28at ColumbiaW 6–020,000[4]

References

  1. ^ a b 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 146.
  2. ^ "1929 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Andreas Is Reappointed: To Coach Basketball at Syracuse--Hanson New Football Mentor". New York Times. February 12, 1930. p. 32.
  4. ^ Pat Robinson (November 29, 1929). "Syracuse Beats Columbia, 6 to 0, in Fumbling Tilt". New York Daily News. pp. 57, 59 – via Newspapers.com.