Fordham at Syracuse
Saturday, October 27, 1951 Share
Syracuse beat Fordham 33–20. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Fordham led the series 2–1–1.
FinalHigh 58°F, low 32°FAttendance 15,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 28, 1951, page 41
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Syracuse Substitute | Beats Fordham, 1870 SYRACUSE, N. Y. Oct. 81 Avatus Stone, converted safety man. playing his first offensive role, passed. ran and master minded Syracuse to a 33-to-2( football victory over Fordham today. The 185-pound junior, moved to the quarterback position only this week, threw three touchdown passes and turned in several long runs to help produce another score. A substitute Fordham quarter back, Gene Callahan. turned ir an almost equally good perform iance by throwing two touchdown passes in the final quarter to til the score at 1920. But Syracuse came back in the final minutes to match the Rams two tallies and clinch the game
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)
Fordham 56% to win. Syracuse won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Fordham–Syracuse gameSyracuse leads 4–2–1 in seven meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1954 | Syracuse 20, Fordham 7 | |
| 1953 | Syracuse 20, Fordham 13 | |
| 1952 | Syracuse 26, Fordham 13 | |
| 1951 | Syracuse 33, Fordham 20 | |
| 1950 | Fordham 13, Syracuse 6 | |
| 1949 | Fordham 47, Syracuse 21 |
Around this game
Fordham
- Next gameat RutgersNov. 3, 1951
- SeasonFordham in 1951
- ProgramFordham history and records
Syracuse
- Next gameat Penn StateNov. 10, 1951
- SeasonSyracuse in 1951
- ProgramSyracuse history and records

