West Virginia at Syracuse

Saturday, October 24, 1959

No. 6 Syracuse beat West Virginia 44–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 5–⁠2.

AwayWest Virginia3–⁠7 in 1959
0
Home6Syracuse11–⁠0 in 1959
44

FinalHigh 72°F, low 53°F, 0.45 in. of rainAttendance 35,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Army's Caldwell Picked on Weekly AII-Eust Squad

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1959, page 1

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    Army’s Caldwell Picked on Weekly AII-Eust Squad NEW YORK. Oct. ~ tAP).- Army. Dartmouth, Princeton and Juniata are represented in the backfleld of the weekly ALI East football team based or performances last Saturday. Joe Caldwell Of Army is the quarterback whose eight COM pleted passes in IA attempts against Colorado State set q new Cadet record Of “a for the season. Halfback Jake Crouthamel OF Dartmouth and Hugh Scott OF Princeton between them gained a total Of 235 yards on muddy fields. The Dartmouth star gained 1872 yards against Harward. Scott made l03 against Cornell and scored two touch downs. Fullback Bill Berrier of Juniata scored two touchdowns kicked three extra points, and rushed for lot yards in his teams victory over Western Maryland. Sophomore Of the week as selected in the polls of press box observers Is Syracuse’s Ernie Davis, who gained al yards in nine plays and scored two touchdowns as the Orange trampled West Virginia, 44–⁠0. The team: Ends-Bobb Simms, Rutgers, and John Seksinsky, Penn. Tackles-Dave Thompson, Tufts. and George Thompson, Union. Center-Dave Bishop, Connecticut. Quarterback – Joe Caldwell, Army. Halfbacks-Jake Crouthamel Dartmouth, and Hugh Scott, Princeton. Fullback-Bill Berrier, Jun iata.

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.

On the newsreel

  • SYRACUSE BLASTS WEST VIRGINIAIn Syracuse, the unbeaten Orange devastates the Mountaineers of West Virginia, with a slashing, variety filled, powerhouse attack, that runs up forty-four-nothing shutout.Universal Newsreel, October 26, 1959. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Syracuse 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Syracuse leads 34–⁠27 in 61 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.

Recent meetings
2018Syracuse 34, West Virginia 18Camping World Bowl
2012Syracuse 38, West Virginia 14Pinstripe Bowl
2011Syracuse 49, West Virginia 23
2010Syracuse 19, West Virginia 14
2009West Virginia 34, Syracuse 13
2008West Virginia 17, Syracuse 6

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