1939 Syracuse Orangemen football team

The 1939 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1939 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Ossie Solem and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. The team was co-captained by guard Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty, who would later become a Hall-of-Fame-inducted coach at Michigan State. The Daily Orange predicted before the season that Syracuse will beat all the team except Duke.[2]

1939 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–3–2
Head coach
CaptainDuffy Daugherty, William Hoffman[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1939 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell    8 0 0
No. 10 Duquesne    8 0 1
Swarthmore    6 0 1
Scranton    7 0 2
Princeton    7 1 0
La Salle    6 1 1
Penn State    5 1 2
No. 11 Boston College    9 2 0
No. 17 Fordham    6 2 0
Villanova    6 2 0
Boston University    5 3 0
Brown    5 3 1
Dartmouth    5 3 1
Hofstra    4 3 0
NYU    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Harvard    4 4 0
Manhattan    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Syracuse    3 3 2
Vermont    3 3 2
Tufts    3 4 1
Yale    3 4 1
Army    3 4 2
Bucknell    3 5 0
Carnegie Tech    3 5 0
Providence    3 5 0
Columbia    2 4 2
Massachusetts State    2 5 2
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 7 0
CCNY    1 7 0
Buffalo    0 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Syracuse was ranked at No. 75 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29ClarksonW 12–015,000
October 7at CornellL 6–1924,000[4]
October 14Georgetown
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
T 13–1315,000[5]
October 21at No. 13 DukeL 6–3325,000
October 28Penn State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
T 6–616,000
November 4Michigan State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 3–1416,000
November 18Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 7–028,000[6]
November 23at MarylandW 10–75,000[7]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 147.
  2. "Syracuse Football Duke Daily Orange 1939". Star-Gazette. Elmira, New York. May 11, 1939. p. 29. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  3. E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Cornell Aims Guns At Tigers After Beating Syracuse". The Ithaca Journal. October 9, 1939. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Syracuse, Hoyas Lock in 13-13 Tie". The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. October 15, 1939. pp. 1B, 2B via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Syracuse Deception Whips Colgate, 7-0". New York Daily News. November 19, 1939. p. 80 via Newspapers.com.
  7. Craig E. Taylor (November 24, 1939). "University Of Maryland Bows To Syracuse In Football Thriller, 10-7". The Baltimore Sun. p. 12 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "1939 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.


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