Dartmouth at Syracuse

Saturday, October 4, 1947

Dartmouth beat Syracuse 28–⁠7. It was their ninth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 5–⁠3–⁠1.

AwayDartmouth4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1947
28
HomeSyracuse3–⁠6 in 1947
7

FinalHigh 80°F, low 42°FAttendance 18,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Yesterdays Football Briefs

    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.

Dartmouth leads 6–⁠3–⁠1 in 10 meetings, counting the one since this game.

Recent meetings
1951Dartmouth 14, Syracuse 0
1947Dartmouth 28, Syracuse 7
1946Dartmouth 20, Syracuse 14
1945Dartmouth 8, Syracuse 0
1921Syracuse 14, Dartmouth 7
1920Syracuse 10, Dartmouth 0

Around this game

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