Syracuse at Cornell
Saturday, October 19, 1940 Share
No. 1 Cornell beat Syracuse 33–6. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Cornell led the series 14–5.
FinalHigh 38°F, low 23°FAttendance 18,000
In the newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1940, page 5 (results column)
Read the text
Hi|NY5.iIJ Scores The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon Oregon State o: University of Washington 19. Stanford 26; Washington State IA. U.C.LA. T; California g. Oregon 0; University of Southern California 13. Duke 13; Colgate O. Princeton 28; Pennsylvania 46. Maryland o; Florida l9. Vanderbilt 0; Georgia Tech 19. Nebraska 53; Kansas g. Idaho o; Boston College 60. Iowa 6; Indiana 10. Carnegie Tech O; Notre Dame 61 Iowa State IA Missouri 30. Rice 6; Tulane 15. Northwestern 27; Wisconsin T. Tennessee 27; Alabama 12. Texas 2l; Arkansas O. Illinois 0; Michigan 28. Drake 0; Navy 19. Georgia IS; Columbia 19. Syracuse 6; Cornell 33 Holy Cross 13; NY.U. 2. Fordham 24; Pittsburgh 12. Dartmouth ‘; Yale 13 Army 6; Harvard 6, tie. Penn State 34; Lehigh 0. Connecticut 13; Maine G. Minnesota 13; Ohio State T.
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.
On the newsreel
- CORNELL CRUSHES SYRACUSE, 33-6The "Big Red" juggernaut chalks up its third lop-sided victory of the season, battering its ancient rivals into submission before 18,000 fans
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Cornell 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Syracuse–Cornell gameCornell leads 23–11 in 34 meetings, counting the 15 since this game.
| 1958 | Syracuse 55, Cornell 0 | |
| 1957 | Syracuse 34, Cornell 0 | |
| 1954 | Cornell 14, Syracuse 6 | |
| 1953 | Syracuse 26, Cornell 0 | |
| 1952 | Syracuse 26, Cornell 6 | |
| 1951 | Cornell 21, Syracuse 14 |
Around this game
Syracuse
- Next gameat ColumbiaOct. 26, 1940
- SeasonSyracuse in 1940
- ProgramSyracuse history and records
Cornell
- Next gamevs. Ohio StateOct. 26, 1940
- SeasonCornell in 1940
- ProgramCornell history and records