Boston College at Syracuse

Saturday, September 21, 1963

Syracuse beat Boston College 32–⁠21. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Syracuse led the series 5–⁠1 as played.

AwayBoston College6–⁠3 in 1963
21
HomeSyracuse8–⁠2 in 1963
32

FinalHigh 55°F, low 38°FAttendance 30,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Cridiron Squads Get I'm Full Swing

    The Nome nugget, September 23, 1963, page 7 (results column)

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    Cridiron Squads Get I’m Full Swing Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina State turned in impressive victories in making their 1863 debuts in college foot ball. The Sooners of Oklahoma – ranked at Number Four in the A-P preseason poll – broke loose in the second half for 31 to 14 vic tory over Clemson. TouchdoWns by Lance Rentzel, Mike Ringer and Ralph Nicely, plus a field goal by George Jarman gave Oklahoma its second-half points. Alabama whipped Georgia, 32 to ‘, in the opening Southeastern Conference game for the two teams. Mike Fracchia scored two touchdoWns and quarterback Joe Klamath sparked the attack for the Crimson Tide. A flock of talented sophomores paced Tennessee to a 34 to rout of Richmond, giving Jim McDon- aid a victory in his head coaching debut for the Volunteers. Hal Wantland scored two touchdoWns to lead the way for Tennessee. North Carolina State surprised Maryland, 36 to 14, with quarter back Jim Rossi starring for the Wolfpack Rossi scored one touch down and passed for another one while he mixed up his attack per fectly. In an Atlantic Coast Confer ence opener, North Carolina de- feated Virginia, II to 2, on a fourth-period touchdown by Ken Willard. Henry Massie gave the Cavaliers their touchdown on a 99-yard runback of the second-half kickoff Army and Navy both came through with one-sided decision in their first appearance of the season. The Army battered Boston University, 30 to O. Navy ran wild in it’s 51 to 2 shellacking of West Virginia. Elsewhere on the gridiron: Wally Mahle led Syracuse to a 32 to 21 victory over Boston College; Ne braska ripped South Dakota State for a 58 to decision; Kansas State registered a 24 to 2 verdict over Brigham Young; Northwestern dOWned Missouri, 23 to 12: Duke held off South Carolina for g to l4 victory. Iowa State-California – Cali fornia quarterback Craig Morton

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 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Syracuse leads 33–⁠25; as played, 34–⁠25 in 59 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Boston College 34, Syracuse 12
2024Boston College 37, Syracuse 31
2023Boston College 17, Syracuse 10
2022Syracuse 32, Boston College 23
2021Syracuse 21, Boston College 6
2020Boston College 16, Syracuse 13

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