Georgetown at Syracuse

Saturday, October 14, 1939

Georgetown and Syracuse tied 13–⁠13. It was their third meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayGeorgetown7–⁠0–⁠1 in 1939
13
HomeSyracuse3–⁠3–⁠2 in 1939
13

FinalHigh 58°F, low 43°FAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Navy Oupaw Dartmouth Baltimore Grid Battle That Ends Scorees Edges Out Detroit n 13 Georgetown and Syracuse Quit Win, Lose or Draw A Few Saturday Football Honeovers

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 15, 1939, page 32

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    Navy Oupaw Dartmouth Baltimore Grid Battle That Ends Scorees Edges Out Detroit n 13 Georgetown and Syracuse Quit Win, Lose or Draw A Few Saturday Football Honeovers BALTIMORE, Oct. 4-This to be the gist Navy 0; Dartmouth, O-It beautiful Tor 1ootba but when the two the Magnot and Siegfried Lines out Darmouths sent trial balloon, which Camps feld-goa attempt esembd The wind ground however and matter how py the still q grand october afternoon. Georgetown IL; Syracuse, 13Ihe Hoyas folk Until today they had among the handful of unbeaten united Still 1t wasn’t GeorgetoWns mean could have been Syracuse only lost 1888 club and BESIDES the Orange osh team in repeat, it wasn’t bad Virginia. 12 Maryland This of those out according to Late in the afternoon after that failed touchdown have received just pulling unrecognized by the scoreboard cstodian with George Washington University the unbeaten

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)

Georgetown 52% to win.

Georgetown leads 2–⁠1–⁠1 in four meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1940Georgetown 28, Syracuse 6
1939Georgetown 13, Syracuse 13
1927Syracuse 19, Georgetown 6
1926Georgetown 13, Syracuse 7

Around this game

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