Niagara at Syracuse
Saturday, November 9, 1929 Share
Syracuse beat Niagara 20–0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 7–0.
FinalHigh 43°F, low 30°FAttendance 12,000
In the newspapers

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, November 11, 1929, page 5 (results column)
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GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following scores are the fi’ nals in the various football games played in the States last Saturday afternoon: Stanford 6; Washington 0. Washington State fl; Idaho ‘. Tulane 52; Auburn 0. Michigan State 33; Mississipp. Aggies 19. Illinois IT; Army ‘. California 53; Montana Is. Wisconsin 20; Chicago 6. Notre Dame 19; Drake T. Iowa Q; Minnesota 2. New York University 27; Georgia 19. Michigan IA; Harvard 12. Cornell 36; Western Reserve O. Colgate 33; Columbia 0. Yale 13; Maryland 13. Northwestern IS; Ohio State 6. Pittsburgh 21; Washington-Jef- ferson O. West Virginia O; Detroit 36. Southern California 66; Nevada 0. Pomona IS; Arizona 12. Vanderbilt 22; Georgia Tech ‘. Kansas T; Oklahoma 0. Amherst 13; Tufts 13. Princeton 20; Lehigh 0. Syracuse 20; Niagara 0. Bucknell g.; Villanova 0. Fordham T; Boston College 6. Maine %; Bowdoin 6. Penn State 19; Pennsylvania 2. Dartmouth 13; Brown 6.
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 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Niagara–Syracuse gameSyracuse leads 9–0 in nine meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 1948 | Syracuse 13, Niagara 9 | |
| 1947 | Syracuse 14, Niagara 7 | |
| 1929 | Syracuse 20, Niagara 0 | |
| 1927 | Syracuse 13, Niagara 6 | |
| 1926 | Syracuse 12, Niagara 6 | |
| 1925 | Syracuse 17, Niagara 0 |
Around this game
Niagara
- Next gameat Penn StateSept. 27, 1930
- SeasonNiagara in 1929
- ProgramNiagara history and records
Syracuse
- Next gamevs. ColgateNov. 16, 1929
- SeasonSyracuse in 1929
- ProgramSyracuse history and records
