1951 Syracuse Orangemen football team

The 1951 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1951 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse finished the season with a 5–4 record and were not invited to a bowl game. The team was ranked at No. 65 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[2]

1951 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4
Head coach
CaptainEd Dobrowolski, John Donati[1]
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1951 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell    9 0 0
No. 6 Princeton    9 0 0
Northeastern    6 0 1
No. 19 Holy Cross    8 2 0
Carnegie Tech    6 2 0
Hofstra    6 2 1
Cornell    6 3 0
No. 16 Boston University    6 4 0
Temple    6 4 0
Columbia    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 0
Fordham    5 4 0
Franklin & Marshall    5 4 0
Penn    5 4 0
Penn State    5 4 0
Syracuse    5 4 0
Buffalo    4 4 0
Colgate    4 5 0
Dartmouth    4 5 0
Drexel    3 4 0
Harvard    3 5 1
Boston College    3 6 0
Yale    2 5 2
Pittsburgh    3 7 0
Geneva    2 5 0
Army    2 7 0
Brown    2 7 0
NYU    1 7 0
Tufts    0 7 2
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21TempleW 19–017,000[3]
September 29at No. 20 CornellL 14–2125,000[4]
October 6Lafayette
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 46–013,000[5]
October 13No. 7 Illinois
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 20–4127,000
October 20at DartmouthL 0–1411,000[6]
October 27Fordham
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 33–2015,000[7]
November 10at Penn StateL 13–3215,000
November 17Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY (rivalry)
W 9–034,000[8]
November 24at Boston UniversityW 26–1910,148[9]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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References

  1. 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 148.
  2. "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Reddy, Bill (September 22, 1951). "Orange Shatters Temple Football Jinx by 19-0 Score". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, N.Y. p. 10 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Slattery, Jack (October 7, 1951). "12,000 See Cornell Rout Colgate, 41-18". The Sunday Press. Binghamton, N.Y. p. 1D via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Syracuse Crushes Lafayette". The Sunday Press. Binghamton, N.Y. Associated Press. October 7, 1951. p. 5D via Newspapers.com.
  6. Nichols, Joseph C. (October 21, 1951). "Dartmouth Jolts Syracuse by 14-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  7. Johnson, Robert E. (November 10, 1951). "Syracuse's Negro Star Wins Coveted Award". The Pittsburgh Courier. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 14. Retrieved December 5, 2020 via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. Warner, Dave (November 18, 1951). "Orange Outbattles Colgate on Muddy Field, 9-0". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, N.Y. p. 1D via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Syracuse Grid Team Tests Terriers at Fenway Park". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston, MA. November 23, 1951. pp. 4, 15.
  10. "1951 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2018.


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