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
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5
Head coach	Ben Schwartzwalder (1st season)
Captain	James Fiacco[1]
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
Seasons ← 1948 1950 →

1949 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Saint Vincent			–					10	–	0	–	0
No. 4 Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gannon			–					8	–	0	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					8	–	0	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Cornell			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Villanova			–					8	–	1	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	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
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	0
Hofstra			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					1	–	8	–	0
Harvard			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 23	Boston University	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 21–33	25,000
October 1	Lafayette	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 20–13	22,000	[2]
October 7	Temple	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 14–27	20,000	[3]
October 15	at Rutgers	Rutgers Stadium Piscataway, NJ	W 21–9	12,000	[4]
October 22	at Fordham	Polo Grounds New York, NY	L 21–47	18,615	[5]
October 29	at Penn State	New Beaver Field University Park, PA (rivalry)	L 21–33	18,600
November 5	at No. 7 Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 7–33	33,000	[6]
November 12	Holy Cross	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 47–13	15,000	[7]
November 19	Colgate	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 35–7	36,232	[8]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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