Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry

Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry

Teams	Colgate Raiders Syracuse Orange

Colgate University

Syracuse University

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Locations in New York

The Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Colgate Raiders and Syracuse Orange. The two schools are located 38 miles apart from each other in Central New York. The two teams have met 67 times, and despite Colgate not recording a victory since 1950, the series is tied 31–31–5. The game has been infrequently played since the NCAA's divisional split in 1978, which placed Colgate in Division I-AA and Syracuse in Division I-A.

History

Colgate University (located in Madison County) and Syracuse University (located in neighboring Onondaga County) are both private institutions, and their close proximity to each other quickly lead to a natural rivalry in athletics between the two schools. Colgate and Syracuse first played each other in football in 1891, with Colgate recording a 22–16 victory. The Red Raiders would go on the win 12 of the first 16 games in the series. Colgate's early dominance in the series quickly gave rise to the legend of the Hoodoo (a play on a corruption of the word Voodoo). The Hoodoo legend was based on a story that, during the construction of Syracuse's Archbold Stadium in 1907, a Colgate student snuck onto the construction site and buried a varsity maroon "C" sweater in the drying cement, thereby cursing Syracuse to failure against the Red Raiders. Colgate students even went so far as to rent planes to drop "Hoodoo" flyers to litter the Syracuse campus, prompting Syracuse students to respond by dropping their own flyers on the Colgate campus. After Syracuse students upped the ante by pouring orange dye into Colgate's Taylor Lake, Colgate students responded by renting a plane to drop red paint onto Archbold Stadium. However, by the late 1950s, Syracuse had established itself as a major power in Eastern college football, while Colgate continued to lag behind and the games became increasingly one-sided. Following the 1961 contest, Colgate terminated the series, in order to focus on playing smaller, peer institutions. Following the NCAA's I-A/I-AA split in 1978, the rivalry was intermittently renewed in the 1980s, with Syracuse comfortably winning all three games played in the decade. In 2010, the rivalry was renewed again after a 23-year absence, with Syracuse recording a 42–7 victory. The series resumed again in 2016, when Syracuse is scheduled to host Colgate in a game played in the Carrier Dome. Syracuse won 33–7.

Notable games

• 1891: The first ever meeting between the two schools resulted in a 22–16 Colgate victory.
• 1897 – The Tackle: Colgate was hosting the game in Hamilton. With the game tied, a Colgate alumnus who was working as a newspaper reporter covering the game, ran out onto the field and tackled a Syracuse player who had broken away and was about to score the go-ahead touchdown. The game eventually ended in a 6–6 tie. The series would be suspended until 1902, at which point every subsequent game in the series would be played in Syracuse.
• 1916: Colgate defeats Syracuse 15–0 en route to the program's first national championship season.
• 1932: Colgate went into Archbold Stadium and shut out the Orangemen 16–0 en route to a perfect season and the program's second national championship season.
• 1950 – Colgate's Last Stand: Colgate pulls out a 19–14 victory over Syracuse in Archbold Stadium, Colgate's last victory in the series to date.
• 1956: Jim Brown scores an NCAA-record 43 points in Syracuse's 61–7 victory over Colgate.
• 1959: #1 ranked Syracuse hosted Colgate in front of 31,000 fans at Archbold Stadium and dominated the Red Raiders 71–0 en route to a perfect season and only national championship season to date.
• 1961 – The End: Syracuse records a 51–8 victory over Colgate in the last regularly scheduled annual meeting between the two schools. Colgate and Syracuse would not play again in football for the next 20 years.
• 2010: Colgate and Syracuse met on the gridiron for the first time since 1987, a 42–7 Syracuse victory in the Carrier Dome.

Game results

Colgate victories are shaded ██ maroon. Syracuse victories are shaded ██ orange. Ties are white.

#	Date	Location	Winner	Score	Series
1	November 7, 1891	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	22–16	Colgate 1–0
2	October 26, 1893	Hamilton, NY	Colgate	58–0	Colgate 2–0
3	October 6, 1894	Hamilton, NY	Colgate	32–8	Colgate 3–0
4	November 9, 1895	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	4–0	Colgate 3–1
5	October 24, 1896	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	6–0	Colgate 4–1
6	October 16, 1897	Hamilton, NY	Tie	6–6	Colgate 4–1–1
7	October 11, 1902	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	23–0	Colgate 4–2–1
8	October 17, 1903	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	10–5	Colgate 5–2–1
9	October 8, 1904	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	11–0	Colgate 6–2–1
10	October 21, 1905	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	11–5	Colgate 6–3–1
11	October 20, 1906	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	5–0	Colgate 7–3–1
12	November 7, 1908	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	6–0	Colgate 8–3–1
13	November 13, 1909	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	6–5	Colgate 9–3–1
14	November 12, 1910	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	11–6	Colgate 10–3–1
15	November 16, 1912	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	7–0	Colgate 11–3–1
16	November 15, 1913	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	35–13	Colgate 12–3–1
17	November 14, 1914	Syracuse, NY	Tie	0–0	Colgate 12–3–2
18	November 13, 1915	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	38–0	Colgate 12–4–2
19	November 18, 1916	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	15–0	Colgate 13–4–2
20	November 17, 1917	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	27–7	Colgate 13–5–2
21	November 15, 1919	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	13–7	Colgate 13–6–2
22	November 20, 1920	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	14–0	Colgate 13–7–2
23	November 12, 1921	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	14–0	Colgate 13–8–2
24	November 18, 1922	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	14–7	Colgate 13–9–2
25	November 17, 1923	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	16–7	Colgate 14–9–2
26	November 22, 1924	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	7–3	Colgate 14–10–2
27	November 14, 1925	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	19–6	Colgate 15–10–2
28	November 13, 1926	Syracuse, NY	Tie	10–10	Colgate 15–10–3
29	November 12, 1927	Syracuse, NY	Tie	13–13	Colgate 15–10–4
30	November 17, 1928	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	30–6	Colgate 16–10–4
31	November 16, 1929	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	21–0	Colgate 17–10–4
32	November 15, 1930	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	36–7	Colgate 18–10–4
33	November 14, 1931	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	21–7	Colgate 19–10–4
34	November 12, 1932	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	16–0	Colgate 20–10–4
35	November 18, 1933	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	13–3	Colgate 21–10–4
36	November 17, 1934	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	13–2	Colgate 22–10–4
37	November 16, 1935	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	27–0	Colgate 23–10–4
38	November 21, 1936	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	13–0	Colgate 24–10–4
39	November 20, 1937	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	7–0	Colgate 25–10–4
40	November 5, 1938	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	7–0	Colgate 25–11–4
41	November 18, 1939	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	7–0	Colgate 25–12–4
42	November 16, 1940	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	7–6	Colgate 26–12–4
43	November 15, 1941	Syracuse, NY	Tie	19–19	Colgate 26–12–5
44	November 14, 1942	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	14–0	Colgate 27–12–5
45	November 18, 1944	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	43–13	Colgate 27–13–5
46	November 17, 1945	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	7–6	Colgate 28–13–5
47	November 16, 1946	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	25–7	Colgate 29–13–5
48	November 15, 1947	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	7–0	Colgate 29–14–5
49	November 13, 1948	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	20–13	Colgate 30–14–5
50	November 15, 1949	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	35–7	Colgate 30–15–5
51	November 18, 1950	Syracuse, NY	Colgate	19–14	Colgate 31–15–5
52	November 17, 1951	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	9–0	Colgate 31–16–5
53	November 15, 1952	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	20–14	Colgate 31–17–5
54	November 14, 1953	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	34–18	Colgate 31–18–5
55	November 13, 1954	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	31–12	Colgate 31–19–5
56	November 12, 1955	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	26–19	Colgate 31–20–5
57	November 17, 1956	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	61–7	Colgate 31–21–5
58	November 16, 1957	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	34–6	Colgate 31–22–5
59	November 15, 1958	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	47–0	Colgate 31–23–5
60	November 14, 1959	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	71–0	Colgate 31–24–5
61	November 12, 1960	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	46–6	Colgate 31–25–5
62	November 11, 1961	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	51–8	Colgate 31–26–5
63	October 31, 1981	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	47–24	Colgate 31–27–5
64	October 30, 1982	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	49–15	Colgate 31–28–5
65	October 24, 1987	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	52–6	Colgate 31–29–5
66	September 25, 2010	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	42–7	Colgate 31–30–5
67	September 3, 2016	Syracuse, NY	Syracuse	33–7	Tie 31–31–5