Carlisle vs. Syracuse

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Carlisle’s biggest win1912: Carlisle 33, Syracuse 0by 33 points
2. Syracuse’s biggest win1914: Syracuse 24, Carlisle 3by 21 points
3. Upset1911: Syracuse 12, Carlisle 11Syracuse had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Carlisle’s side (Warner 2–⁠1 against O’Neill). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1906 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 4, 1906

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  1907 · New-York tribune, Oct 13, 1907

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  1908 · New-York tribune, Oct 11, 1908

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  1909 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 17, 1909

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  1911 · The Washington herald, Washington, D.C., Nov 19, 1911

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Carlisle vs. Pennsylvania21 meetings, Carlisle 6–⁠13–⁠2
• Carlisle vs. Lebanon Valley14 meetings, Carlisle 13–⁠0–⁠1
• Carlisle vs. Harvard14 meetings, Carlisle 2–⁠12
• Carlisle vs. Dickinson12 meetings, Carlisle 12–⁠0
• Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh82 meetings, Syracuse 33–⁠46–⁠3
• Syracuse vs. Penn State71 meetings, Syracuse 23–⁠43–⁠5
• Syracuse vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Syracuse 34–⁠27
• Syracuse vs. Colgate61 meetings, Syracuse 32–⁠25–⁠4