1920 Syracuse Orangemen football team

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1920 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainDoc Alexander
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
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
Syracuse     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.