Syracuse at Cornell

Saturday, October 7, 1939

Cornell beat Syracuse 19–⁠6. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 13–⁠5.

AwaySyracuse3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1939
6
HomeCornell8–⁠0 in 1939
19

FinalHigh 66°F, low 46°FAttendance 23,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Cornell Passes, Smoshes Way To Victory Before Syracuse Gets Going in 1916 7ussIe

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 8, 1939, page 26

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    Cornell Passes, Smoshes Way To Victory Before Syracuse Gets Going in 1916 7ussIe Cornell touchdown. Ken Brown returned a Syracuse punt II yards to the Syracuse Al. A Mccullough Baker pass was good for 80 yards. Burly Jim Schmuok roared around his left end on bewildering play and was spilled 2 feet from the goal, but Mccullough took it the rest of the way on the next play. Charles Sweeney was wide with his kick. Syracuse Comes Back. Syracuse, whose offense had stuttered and spunered up to that time, came back boiling mad, and with Bill Hoffman, Wilbur Fay and Phil Allen ripping and slashing at tIe yielding Red wall, advanced to the Cornell 16 as the third quarter ended. The drive faded as the fourth quarter opened, and Cornell took the ball on downs on its 13, but as soon as Baker had booted the ball back to the Cornell 10, the Orange was on the move again, this time by air. A rapid-fire series of passes, with Dick Bangor doing most of the throwing and Henry Piro the CATCH ing, carried to the 1-fdot line, where Syracuse was awarded the ball on an interference penalty. Hoffman dived for the touchdown, but his n1oca kiok moe vr,ida

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 7, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores of football games played this after noon in various parts of the states as received up to press time: University of Washington T; U. c. L. A. A. Alabama T; Fordham g. West Virginia 0; Pitt 20. Missouri O.; Ohio State 19. Bates O; Harvard 20. Rochester o; Oberlin 12. Western Reserve 12;‘ Ohio U. IA. DePauw 6; Ohio Wesleyan B. Virginia Military Institute 2; Day. idson 0. Auburn 0; Tulane 12. Texas Christian 13; Arkansas IA. Iowa State 32; Indiana 29. Kentucky 21; Vanderbilt 13. Brown 20; Amherst IA. Syracuse 6; Cornell 19. Rhode Island 0; Maine 24 Franklin Marshall T; Boston U. 13 New York U 43; Penn Military o. Michigan State 13; Michigan 26. Lafayette O; Pennsylvania 6. Bucknell 3; Penn State 13. Worcester Tech 6; Coast Guard Academy 0. Williams 6; Princeton 26. Center 6; Army ‘. Columbia ?: Yale 10. Louisiana State 26; Holy Cross ‘. Carnegie Tech 6; Temple 0. Colgate 0; Duke 37. Texas IT; Wisconsin 7 Iowa State 0; Kansas IA. Minnesota 0; Nebraska 6. Georgia Tech IA; Notre Dame IT. Oklahoma 8; Northwestern 0.

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)

Cornell 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Cornell leads 23–⁠11 in 34 meetings, counting the 16 since this game.

Recent meetings
1958Syracuse 55, Cornell 0
1957Syracuse 34, Cornell 0
1954Cornell 14, Syracuse 6
1953Syracuse 26, Cornell 0
1952Syracuse 26, Cornell 6
1951Cornell 21, Syracuse 14

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