1902 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1902 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
1902 record	6–2–1
Head coach	Edwin Sweetland (3rd season)
Captain	Ancil D. Brown
Seasons ← 1901 1903 →

1902 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Ursinus		–		9	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		11	–	0	–	1
Geneva		–		7	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		11	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	1	–	0
Army		–		6	–	1	–	1
Frankin & Marshall		–		7	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		6	–	2	–	1
Syracuse		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle		–		8	–	3	–	0
Cornell		–		8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette		–		8	–	3	–	0
Amherst		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		9	–	4	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	3	–	1
Vermont		–		5	–	3	–	2
Colgate		–		5	–	3	–	1
NYU		–		5	–	3	–	0
Columbia		–		6	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		6	–	4	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	6	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		5	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire		–		2	–	3	–	1
Tufts		–		4	–	6	–	1
Fordham		–		2	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan		–		3	–	6	–	1
Rutgers		–		3	–	7	–	0
Navy		–		2	–	7	–	1
Drexel		–		1	–	4	–	1
Temple		–		1	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College		–		1	–	6	–	0
Boston College		–		0	–	8	–	0

The 1902 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1902 college football season. The head coach was Edwin Sweetland, coaching his third season with the Orangemen.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 20	Cortland	Syracuse, NY	W 21–0
September 27	Onondaga Indians	Syracuse, NY	W 34–0
October 4	Clarkson	Syracuse, NY	W 34–0
October 11	Colgate	Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 23–0
October 18	Amherst	Syracuse, NY	W 15–0
October 25	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–24
November 1	Williams	Syracuse, NY	W 26–17
November 15	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–46
November 27	at Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	T 6–6	4,000	^[2]

^ "1902 Syracuse Orangemen Schedule and Results - College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
^ "Columbia, 6; Syracuse, 6". The New York Times. November 28, 1902. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "2016 Syracuse Football Media Guide" (PDF). Syracuse University. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

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