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Colgate at Syracuse

Saturday, November 17, 1923

Colgate beat Syracuse 16–⁠7. It was their 17th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 8–⁠8–⁠1.

AwayColgate6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1923
16
HomeSyracuse8–⁠1 in 1923
7

FinalHigh 44°F, low 40°FAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: COLGATE SPRINGS UPSET BY DEFEATING SYRACUSE

    Evening star, November 18, 1923, page 69

    Read the text

    COLGATE SPRINGS UPSET BY DEFEATING SYRACUSE YRACUSE November HSyracues hopes OF attaining foot ball honor aglnmeng complete reversal of torm turned the tables team and wo 10 to IN one OF the most startling of the field Inc second while the final period SyracuS goal line

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Syracuse 75% to win. Colgate pulled the upset.

The series

Every Colgate–Syracuse game

Syracuse leads 32–⁠25–⁠4 in 61 meetings, counting the 44 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Syracuse 66, Colgate 24
2023Syracuse 65, Colgate 0
2016Syracuse 33, Colgate 7
2010Syracuse 42, Colgate 7
1987Syracuse 52, Colgate 6
1982Syracuse 49, Colgate 15

Around this game

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Syracuse