Colgate at Syracuse

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  Evening star, November 19, 1950, page 61

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  Fourth-Quarter Rally By Syracuse Fails, Colgate Wins, 1914 SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 18- Alan Egler, fast and shifty Col gate football captain, drove his team to hard-earned 19-to-14 victory over Syracuse today before nearly 10000 fans. Egler scored two of his teams S three touchdownS and accounted for more than half of Colgates S gains. The White Plains senior carried the ball 26 times and gained 1853 yards. In all. Colgate rushed the ball 293 yards. Syracuse, behind 10 to 7 with only a few minutes left, made a frantic effort to overcome the Red Raider lead and failed only Is yards short of doing so. Bernie Gusts Scores. In nine plays Bernie Custis. Syracuse quarterback, passed and ran the ball 60 yards for a score with only one minute and 43 oCSoll1S lclG 10 play. Syracuse got the ball again on an offside kickoff on the Colgate 45-yard marker and with one long pass and an eight-yard run Gus tis got the ball to Colgate’s Is yard stripe. His single-handed effort to win the game ended there with three incomplete passes as the final whistle sounded. Game Starts Slowly. The game started slowly with neither team able to get anywhere IN the first quarter. Colgate opened the second quarter with a 12-play ground attack that carried it to the Orange four-yard stripe before it was lost on downs and Syracuse kicked out. Then Elger ran Is yards to his own 40-yard line and two plays laters dashed off left tackle and 90 yards down the sidelines to score with II minutes of the period gone. Ed. Lomanto missed the conversion. Syracuse Draws Ahead. Seven plays later Syracuse drew ahead, to 6, when Bob Young crashed over for a touch down from the four-yard line. Colgate drove Is yards in eight plays at the opening of the sec ond half to score again. Egler Went over from the 15-yard marker. Young set UP the third Colgate score by fumbling in midfield at the end of the third quarter Colgate drove the SO yards in II plays. Fullback Walt Liegott scored from the Vineyard line.

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Syracuse leads 32–⁠25–⁠4 in 61 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.