1949 Syracuse Orangemen football team

The 1949 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1949 college football season. This was Syracuse's first season under head coach Ben Schwartzwalder, who would eventually coach at the school for 25 years and become Syracuse's all-time winningest coach. The Orangemen finished the season with a record of 4–5.

1949 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
1949 record4–5
Head coachBen Schwartzwalder (1st season)
CaptainJames Fiacco[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Army      9 0 0
Brown      8 1 0
No. 12 Cornell      8 1 0
No. 13 Villanova      8 1 0
Buffalo      6 3 0
Pittsburgh      6 3 0
Princeton      6 3 0
Fordham      5 3 0
Tufts      5 3 1
Carnegie Tech      5 3 1
Penn State      5 4 0
Temple      5 4 0
Penn      4 4 0
Yale      4 4 0
Boston College      4 4 1
Syracuse      4 5 0
Drexel      3 3 1
Duquesne      3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      2 5 2
NYU      3 6 0
Columbia      2 7 0
Colgate      1 8 0
Harvard      1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 23Boston University
L 21–3325,000
October 1Lafayette
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 20–1322,000
October 7Temple
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 14–2720,000
October 15at RutgersW 21–912,000
October 22at Fordham
L 21–4718,615
October 29at Penn StateL 21–3318,600
November 5at No. 7 CornellL 7–3333,000
November 12Holy Cross
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 47–1315,000
November 15Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 35–736,232
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game time

Sources:[2][1]

References

  1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 147.
  2. "1949 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2018.


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