Johns Hopkins vs. Syracuse
Johns Hopkins and Syracuse first met in 1920 and have played 5 times; Syracuse leads the series 5–0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Syracuse 5–0, and Syracuse has won the last 5. Share
- Johns Hopkins wins
- 0
- Syracuse wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1920
- Longest streak
- 5 Syracuse
- Current streak
- 5 Syracuse
- Last 10 meetings
- Syracuse 5–0
- Most recent
- 1929
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 45.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Syracuse
- 5–0 Syracuse’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Syracuse’s biggest win1929: Syracuse 85, Johns Hopkins 6by 79 points
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

1920 · New-York tribune, Oct 10, 1920

1926 · The Pleasantville press, Pleasantville, N.J., Nov 2, 1926
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 19, 1929 | Syracuse 85, Johns Hopkins 6 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 13, 1928 | Syracuse 58, Johns Hopkins 0 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 8, 1927 | Syracuse 21, Johns Hopkins 6 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 30, 1926 | Syracuse 31, Johns Hopkins 0 | at Syracuse | ||
| Oct 9, 1920 | Syracuse 45, Johns Hopkins 0 | at Syracuse |
Every game is listed as played on the field.