Amherst vs. Syracuse
Amherst and Syracuse first met in 1900 and have played 3 times; Syracuse leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Syracuse 3–0, and Syracuse has won the last 3. Share
- Amherst wins
- 0
- Syracuse wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1900
- Longest streak
- 3 Syracuse
- Current streak
- 3 Syracuse
- Last 10 meetings
- Syracuse 3–0
- Most recent
- 1902
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 10.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Syracuse
- 3–0 Syracuse’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1900 · The Portland daily press, Portland, Me., Oct 22, 1900
1901 · New-York tribune, New York, Oct 27, 1901
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 18, 1902 | Syracuse 15, Amherst 0 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 26, 1901 | Syracuse 28, Amherst 17 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 20, 1900 | Syracuse 5, Amherst 0 | at Syracuse |
Every game is listed as played on the field.