Dartmouth at Syracuse
Saturday, October 4, 1947 Share
Dartmouth beat Syracuse 28–7. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 5–3–1.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 42°FAttendance 18,000
In the newspapers

The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 5, 1947, page 1 (results column)
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Yesterdays Football Briefs Big Six conference football game of the season here today. SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 4.-(P1-The Dartmouth In dams spotted Syracuse a first period touchdown today, and then exploded for a 28–7 triumph before 49, 600 fans. TAT COLLEGE, Pa, Oct. 4.-(P-Powerful Penn State college scored its second football victory of the season today rolling over a hapless Bucknell University eleven, 81 to 0, before a shirt sleeved crowd of $4,000. NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 4.-fP)-Yale paced by Ferd Nedherny and Jim Fuchs, a talented rookie, today blank ed scrappy Cornell, IA to 0, in 2 rough wv League foot ball battle in the bowl before fifty thousand. WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 4.-IP-POwering and pass ing their way to two first period touchdowns and add ing another in the third quarter, the Holy Cross Crusaders today defeated the Temple
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 61% to win. Dartmouth won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Dartmouth–Syracuse gameDartmouth leads 6–3–1 in 10 meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1951 | Dartmouth 14, Syracuse 0 | |
| 1947 | Dartmouth 28, Syracuse 7 | |
| 1946 | Dartmouth 20, Syracuse 14 | |
| 1945 | Dartmouth 8, Syracuse 0 | |
| 1921 | Syracuse 14, Dartmouth 7 | |
| 1920 | Syracuse 10, Dartmouth 0 |
Around this game
Dartmouth
- Next gamevs. PennsylvaniaOct. 11, 1947
- SeasonDartmouth in 1947
- ProgramDartmouth history and records
Syracuse
- Next gamevs. TempleOct. 11, 1947
- SeasonSyracuse in 1947
- ProgramSyracuse history and records

