1898 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1898 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–2–1
Head coach	Frank E. Wade (2nd season)
Captain	Morgan Wilcox
Home stadium	none

1898 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Drexel			–					7	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					8	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					6	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross			–					5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	3
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire			–					4	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh			–					3	–	6	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette			–					3	–	8	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					1	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1898 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1898 college football season. The head coach was Frank E. Wade, coaching his second season with the Orangemen.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 21	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	L 0–28
October 1	Rochester	Syracuse, NY	W 35–0
October 5	Cornell	Syracuse, NY	L 0–30
October 12	at Hobart	Geneva, NY	W 46–5
October 22	at Case School of Science	Cleveland, OH	W 10–0
October 26	Syracuse Athletic Assoc.	Syracuse, NY	W 28–0
October 29	at Ogdensburg	Syracuse, NY	W 17–6
November 5	NYU	Ohio Field New York, NY	W 17–0
November 9	Syracuse Athletic Assoc.	Syracuse, NY	W 28–0
November 12	at Wyoming Seminary	Kingston, PA	W 11–0
November 19	Trinity	Syracuse, NY	T 0–0