1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
1917 record	8–1–1
Head coach	Frank "Buck" O'Neill (6th season);
Captain	Alf Cobb
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
	Seasons ← 1916 1918 →

The 1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1917 college football season.^[1]^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	47th Infantry Regiment	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	T 0–0	4,000
October 6	47th Infantry Regiment	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 19–0
October 13	Rutgers	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 14–10
October 20	Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 0–28	10,000	^[3]
October 27	Tufts	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 58–0
November 3	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 6–0	5,000
November 10	Bucknell	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 42–0
November 17	Colgate	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 27–7	16,000
November 24	at Michigan Agricultural	College Field East Lansing, MI	W 21–7
November 29	at Nebraska	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 10–9	10,000

^ "1917 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results".
^ "Syracuse Would Play Georgia Tech". Pittsburgh Daily Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 24 November 1917. p. 8. Retrieved 29 November 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Guy, Richard (October 21, 1917). "Blue and Gold Subdue Orangemen With Better Attack in Clean Game". The Gazette Times. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.

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1917 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Pittsburgh		–		10	–	0	–	0
Williams		–		7	–	0	–	1
Yale		–		3	–	0	–	0
Princeton		–		2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse		–		8	–	1	–	1
Army		–		7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers		–		7	–	1	–	1
Penn		–		9	–	2	–	0
Brown		–		8	–	2	–	0
Fordham		–		7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh		–		7	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore		–		6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		7	–	3	–	0
Colgate		–		4	–	2	–	0
Harvard		–		3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire		–		3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth		–		5	–	3	–	0
Geneva		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn State		–		5	–	4	–	0
NYU		–		2	–	2	–	3
Tufts		–		3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette		–		3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross		–		3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State		–		2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle		–		3	–	6	–	0
Columbia		–		2	–	4	–	0
Delaware		–		2	–	5	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		2	–	6	–	0
Villanova		–		0	–	3	–	2
Temple		–		0	–	6	–	1