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1929 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainAlbert VanNess [1]
Home stadium Archbold Stadium
Seasons
←  1928
1930 →
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Fordham     7 0 2
Bucknell     8 2 0
No. 11 Penn     7 2 0
Boston College     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Cornell     6 2 0
Tufts     5 1 2
Harvard     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
NYU     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 2
Drexel     6 3 1
Temple     6 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Army     6 4 1
Providence     3 3 2
Brown     5 5 0
Columbia     4 5 0
CCNY     2 4 2
Princeton     2 4 1
Boston University     3 6 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1929 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Lew Andreas and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. [2] [1] Andreas was succeeded as football coach by Vic Hanson after the season, but remained as the Syracuse basketball coach for 21 more years. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 HobartW 77–025,000
October 5 St. Lawrence
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 55–012,000
October 12 Nebraska
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
L 6–1320,000
October 19 Johns Hopkins
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 85–618,000
October 26at BrownW 6–0
November 2 Penn State
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY ( rivalry)
L 4–612,000
November 9 Niagara
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY
W 20–012,000
November 16 Colgate
  • Archbold Stadium
  • Syracuse, NY ( rivalry)
L 0–2135,000
November 28at ColumbiaW 6–020,000 [4]

References

  1. ^ a b 2017 Syracuse football media guide. pg. 146.
  2. ^ "1929 Syracuse Orange Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Andreas Is Reappointed: To Coach Basketball at Syracuse--Hanson New Football Mentor". New York Times. February 12, 1930. p. 32.
  4. ^ Pat Robinson (November 29, 1929). "Syracuse Beats Columbia, 6 to 0, in Fumbling Tilt". New York Daily News. pp. 57, 59 – via Newspapers.com.