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
Conference	Independent
Record	5–4
Head coach	Ben Schwartzwalder (3rd season)
Captains	Ed Dobrowolski John Donati[1]
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium
Seasons ← 1950 1952 →

1951 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Bucknell			–					9	–	0	–	0
No. 6 Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	0
Susquehanna			–					6	–	0	–	0
Trenton State			–					6	–	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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21	Temple	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 19–0	17,000	[3]
September 29	at No. 20 Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 14–21	25,000	[4]
October 6	Lafayette	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 46–0	13,000	[5]
October 13	No. 7 Illinois	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 20–41	27,000
October 20	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 0–14	11,000	[6]
October 27	Fordham	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 33–20	15,000	[7]
November 10	at Penn State	New Beaver Field University Park, PA (rivalry)	L 13–32	15,000
November 17	Colgate	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 9–0	34,000	[8]
November 24	at Boston University	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 26–19	10,148	[9]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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