Temple at Syracuse

Friday, October 7, 1949

Temple beat Syracuse 27–⁠14. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Temple led the series 3–⁠2–⁠1.

AwayTemple5–⁠4 in 1949
27
HomeSyracuse4–⁠5 in 1949
14

FinalHigh 69°F, low 59°F, 0.3 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: BIG GRID GAME TODAY I5 ARMY WITH MICHIGAN

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 8, 1949, page 6 (results column)

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    BIG GRID GAME TODAY I5 ARMY WITH MICHIGAN NEW YORK, Oct. 8-tR-The season still is in it’s infancy but one of the best games of the cam paign is on tap today = Army against Michigan. These power houses of the grid iron-Michigan shows q winning skein of 25 straight while Army’s streak stands at 13 without loss clash at Ann Arbor before capacity crowd of 97,oO0. The mighty Wolverines, who got off to squeaky start With couple of relatively close triumphs over Michigan State and Stanforo are mindful of the last time they met Army. That was in 1946. and the Cadets triumphed 20–⁠13 with Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard carrying the ball. This years Wolverines, rated tops in the country in this weeks Asso- ciated Press poll. will rule slight favorite over Army. There are some other good games on todays calendar. Oklahoma and Texas, couple of high scoring outfits, clash at Dallas before 75,000. This is tossup but Oklahoma probably will have a slight edge. Notre Dame is more worried atout the Tulane game next week than Purdue, while Southern Cal, which already has whipped Navy and Washington State, probably will beat Ohio State. Baylor and Arkansas are two rough-tough teams that play for keeps with the former rated one touchdown the better. Kentucky, which has surprised one and all, has been in- stalled as the choice over Georgia. Some other top games of the day include UCLA-Stanford, Yale Columbia, Iowa. Illinois, Texas Christian-I n diana, Washington Oregon State and Iowa State Colorado. Villanova was handed a scare last night in Philadelphia. The Wildcats eked out bare 28–⁠2C triumph over banged and battered St. Mary’s of California. The Cali | fornia teams three touchdowns were the by-products of second !! period fumbles. In another intersectional fray al Tuscaloosa, Alabama overwhelmed Duquesne AS to 8. i San Francisco upset a favored Detroit University, 3s-1t. and Temple whipped Syracuse 27–⁠14.

  • The Evening star's story: THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER ., ls4s |Michigon-Army Struggle Tops Sparkling Football PROGRAM

    Evening star, October 8, 1949, page 11 (results column)

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    THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER ., ls4s |Michigon-Army Struggle Tops Sparkling Football PROGRAM Notre Dame Is more worried about the Tulane game next week than Purdue. while Southern Cal. which already has whipped Navy and Washington State, probably will beat Ohio State. Baylor and Arkansas are two ugh-tough teams that play for keeps with the former rated one touchdown the better. Kentucky. which has surprised one and all. has been installed as the choice over Georgia. Some other top games of tie day included U. C. L. A.-Stanford. Yale Columbia, Iowa Illinois. Texas Christian-I Indiana. WASH on-Oreeon State and Iowa State-Colorado. Villanova was handed a scare last night in Philadelphia. The Wildcats eked out a bare 1920 triumph over banged and battered st. Mary’s of California. The California teams three touch downs were the by-products Of second period fumbles. In another intersectional fray at Tuscaloosa. Alabama over whelmed Duquesne, 48 to 8. San Francisco upset a favored Detroit University, 1914, and Temple whipped Syracuse, 27–⁠14.

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)

Temple 52% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Syracuse leads 26–⁠10–⁠1 in 37 meetings, counting the 31 since this game.

Recent meetings
2012Syracuse 38, Temple 20
2004Temple 34, Syracuse 24
2003Syracuse 41, Temple 17
2002Temple 17, Syracuse 16
2001Syracuse 45, Temple 3
2000Syracuse 31, Temple 12

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