Rutgers at Syracuse

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  The Bridgeport evening farmer, Connecticut, October 15, 1917, page 10

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  CORNELL DEFEAT BIG SURPRISE FOR FOOTBALL WORLD War seems to have levelled most of the class distinctions in intercollegiate football. Witness the fate of the Cor nell eleven in the game with Williams last Saturday. On paper pr. Sharpe’s team seemed far too strong. for Fred Walkers combination. but that did not stop Williams from outplaying Cornell and winning by 14 to 10. The result indicates just what may be expected in football this year. A week previous Williams had a hard time beating Union 13 to 6, and Union lost to Amherst on Saturday, 19 to 6. Last year Williams with far stronger eleven than 1t has now, was swamped by Cornell. AZ to 0. It generally was supposed that with the loss of their leading players the ratio of strength between Cornell and Williams would be about what it was in 1916. But ‘dope’‘ appears to count for naught in these stirring war times. Cornell proved far weaker than 1t had been accounted. Through it out weighed Williams by big margin, the Ithaca team was slow and de- veleloped a defence against neither q straight nor an aerial attack. When Williams opened up in. in the fna, PCA4Co OOA iACAi ASAl LOs plGcGS. II the Red team is to be half as big as it has been in recent years it will have to improve by about 100 per cent. Next to the Cornell downfall the biggest upset last Saturday was the defeat of Rutgers by Syracuse, IA to 10. Syracuse holds it would have made the tally bigger but for its hay ing had a lot of cripples. Be that l as it may, the result would do credit to the greatest strength Syracuse l could put on the field. While both teams had been expected to score it was thought that Foster Sanford’s | eleven would prove just little | stronger. Either Syracuse has been underrat- | ed or Rutgers has been overrated A real line on Syracuse will be obtained l On Saturday. when 1t plays Pittsburgh. l Glenn Warner has almost as strong a team as he had last year, when it beat l Syracuse so unexpectedly by 30 to O. Pitt already has beaten West Vir- l ginia, 14 to g; Bethany, 40 to 0, and I.ehigh,, Al to 0-altogether rather impressive record. l The Army, which appears to be Pitts closest rival for leading honors 1 just now, continued it’s victorious iiir1iSh dt lAe cAp0iiSo O1 virginia MIL tary Institute. s4 to O. The beating | would have been even worse had the l West Pointers used Wand egraaf, who is on the injured list; McQuarries, who I is ineligible, and Vidal, who is doins | some extra guard work for having i been mixed up in the recent hazine scandal. The three named would make a respectable nucleus for any team. However. the Army’s game served to show that Oliphant is jus as busy as ever.

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  Evening star, October 14, 1917, page 50

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  SYRACUSE BEATS RUTGERS. Malone’s Forty-Eight-Yard Run Features 14-to-1O Contest. SYRACUSE, N. Y, October 1s.-Syracuse University today defeated Rutgers IA to 10, In a well played foot ball game in the Archbold stadium. Malone’s 4s-yard run around right end for q touchdown at the beginning of the fourth quarter was the feature Of the play, the Syracuse halfback taking the ball on a double pass and scoring by fast footwork. He went through the entire Rutgers team without interference. Rutgers excelled with forward pass ing. attempting eleven. five of which succeeded, netting 50 yards and a touchdown. The visitors also scored a goal from placement from the 45yard line, whitehill booting the oval d. rectly between the goal posts. Syracuse made it’s first touchdown on straight foot ball, Meehan going through center for a score Meehan kicked both goals from touchdown.

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, October 14, 1917, page 18

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  SYRACUSE DEFEATS RUTGERS IA TO 10 Syracuse. N Ys october 1S.-Syra- cuse university today defeated Rut- gers, 14 to 10, In we’ll played foot ball game in the Archbold stadium Malone made a 4s-yard run around right end for touchdown at the be- ginning of the fourth quarter, going through the entire Rutgers team with out interference. Rutgers excelled-with forward passing, attempting II. five of which succeeded, netting 69 yards and a touchdown. The visitors also scored a goal from placement from the 45-yard line, Whitehill booting the oval directly between the goal posts. Syracuse made it’s first touchdown on straight football, Meehan going through center for score Meehan kicked both goals from touchdown.

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.

Officially, Syracuse leads 29–⁠13–⁠1; as played, 30–⁠13–⁠1 in 44 meetings, counting the 42 since this game.