1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team

The 1917 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1917 college football season.^[1][2]

1917 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1–1
Head coach	Frank "Buck" O'Neill (6th season)
Captain	Alf Cobb
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
Seasons ← 1916 1918 →

1917 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Pittsburgh			–					10	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					9	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	2	–	3
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					2	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					0	–	6	–	1

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	47th Infantry Regiment	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	T 0–0	4,000
October 6	47th Infantry Regiment	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 19–0
October 13	Rutgers	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 14–10		[3]
October 20	Pittsburgh	Forbes Field Pittsburgh, PA (rivalry)	L 0–28	10,000	[4]
October 27	Tufts	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 58–0
November 3	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 6–0	5,000	[5]
November 10	Bucknell	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 42–0		[6]
November 17	Colgate	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 27–7	16,000
November 24	at Michigan Agricultural	College Field East Lansing, MI	W 21–7
November 29	at Nebraska	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 10–9	10,000