Syracuse at Yale

Saturday, October 15, 1904

Yale beat Syracuse 17–⁠9. It was their third meeting; after it, Yale led the series 3–⁠0.

AwaySyracuse1–⁠2 in 1904
9
HomeYale10–⁠1 in 1904
17

FinalHigh 67°F, low 40°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Salt Lake herald's story: NAVY WINS A CAME AT LAST Princeton Tigers Beaten by Midshipmen. HARVARD BEATS WEST POINT YALE TAKES SYRACUSE DOWN BY SCORE OF 171To O.

    The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], October 16, 1904, page 8

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    NAVY WINS A CAME AT LAST Princeton Tigers Beaten by Midshipmen. HARVARD BEATS WEST POINT YALE TAKES SYRACUSE DOWN BY SCORE OF 171To O. Annapolis. Nd. Oct. I5,-The navy foot bah team so helplessly defeated by their army rivals last year today worsted the last years college champions the Prince ton Tigers. the score being 10 to g. The ilrst score was made by Princeton through field goal BY Tooker After getting the bail IN mid field the Tigers sent Foulke around the nayY’s left end tor twenty-five yards. King followed inns By clearing the opposite end and fuT twenty-five more placing the pigskin on the naVys tweuty-yard line where tae navy forced her opponents TO kick. After TINS score hOnorS We’re about even unuu Douglass in the middle Of the f.ei3. punted Tor the navy. The bali went be hlud the goal posts. was touched ny Buck. who fumbicd through Earlcy 5 Jostling him. Whiting falling on the bali for the navy. Whiting Kicked goal Tne Tigers became desperate after this forced their opponents back until Fouike rsos around the end for fortyyard run and score near the sideifnc The bali- was p0ntcd out for try goal which how ever. WAS blocked The advantage through the second half was entirely Win The navy, Princeton’s fine team work being offset by the brilliant individual work<Of the midshipmen. Douglass. the “Plebc” nainstay Of the navy, was put out Of the game by a broken leg

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)

Yale 86% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Yale leads 11–⁠0 in 11 meetings, counting the eight since this game.

Recent meetings
1912Yale 21, Syracuse 0
1911Yale 12, Syracuse 0
1910Yale 12, Syracuse 6
1909Yale 15, Syracuse 0
1908Yale 5, Syracuse 0
1907Yale 11, Syracuse 0

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