1897 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1897 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3–1
Head coach	Frank E. Wade (1st season)
Captain	Robert Adams
Home stadium	none

1897 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					15	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	2
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	0	–	2
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	1
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					7	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore			–					7	–	3	–	2
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	4	–	1
Wesleyan			–					6	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					3	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					2	–	6	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	6	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0

The 1897 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1897 college football season. The head coach was Frank E. Wade, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 25	Cazenovia	Syracuse, NY	W 36–0
October 2	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY	L 0–16
October 7	Hobart	Syracuse, NY	W 20–6
October 16	at Colgate	Hamilton, NY (rivalry)	T 6–6
October 23	Union (NY)	Syracuse, NY	W 40–0
October 30	at Cortland		W 24–0
November 3	Rochester	Syracuse, NY	W 36–0
November 6	at Buffalo	Buffalo Baseball Park Buffalo, NY	L 0–16	800
November 13	Buffalo	Syracuse, NY	L 0–10