1920 Syracuse Orangemen football team

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.

1920 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainDoc Alexander
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1920 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25Hobart
W 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 Cross
L 0–310,000
November 6Washington & Jefferson
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 14–012,000
November 13vs. Maryland
L 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.


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