Colgate at Syracuse

Saturday, November 15, 1930

Colgate beat Syracuse 36–⁠7. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Colgate led the series 12–⁠9–⁠3.

AwayColgate9–⁠1 in 1930
36
HomeSyracuse5–⁠2–⁠2 in 1930
7

FinalHigh 63°F, low 50°FAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: COLGATE ONSLAUGHT HITS SYRACUSE, 36-7 "Stonewall Line" Falls as Macaluso Puts Over Four Counters. Stevens Is Hurt.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1930, page 73

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    COLGATE ONSLAUGHT HITS SYRACUSE, 36–⁠7 “Stonewall Line” Falls as Macaluso Puts Over Four Counters. Stevens Is Hurt. SYRACUSE, N. Y, November 49, Colgate used q combination of batter ingram attack and aerial onslaught to defeat determined Syracuse here today, SO to z, the third straight win for the invaders over the Orange in as many years. Syracuse’s so-called stonewall line crumbled repeatedly before the fierce blows of the Maroon. The score fails to show, however, the gameneSs of the Syracuse fight. The traditional encounter, thirty-second in the series begun IN 1891, was witnessed by $4,000 persons. The battle was marred by the serious injury OF SyracuSe’S captain, Warren Stevens, in the second quarter. It was announced later from q hospital that he had conclusion of the BRAIN. MacaluSo, the invaders great fullback, who tops the country’s list of high scorers, Numbered through. the SYRIA cuse defense repeatedly to roll up four Of the Maroon’S five touchdowns. He kicked the points for two of them and added three more points by the field goal placement route. Syracuse’s lone. touchdown was made after forward-pass attack. One of these passes, Fishel to Stevens, was good for So yards gain and another, Stevens to Fishel, netted the touch down.

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)

Colgate 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Syracuse leads 32–⁠25–⁠4 in 61 meetings, counting the 37 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

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