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Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry
Colgate Raiders
Syracuse Orange
First meetingNovember 7, 1891
Colgate, 22–16
Latest meetingSeptember 2, 2023
Syracuse, 65-0
Next meetingSeptember 13, 2025[1]
Statistics
Meetings total68
All-time seriesSyracuse, 32–31–5
Largest victorySyracuse, 71–0 (1959)
Longest win streakSyracuse, 17 (1951–present)
Current win streakSyracuse, 17 (1951–present)
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The Colgate–Syracuse football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Colgate Raiders and Syracuse Orange.[2][3][4][5] The two schools are located 38 miles apart from each other in Central New York. The two teams have met 68 times, and despite Colgate not recording a victory since 1950, Syracuse leads the all-time series 32–31–5. 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

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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.[6] 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.[7]

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.[8] In 2010, the rivalry was renewed again after a 23-year absence, with Syracuse recording a 42–7 victory.[9][10] The series resumed again in 2016, when Syracuse hosted Colgate in a game played in the Carrier Dome,[11] which Syracuse won 33–7. The series was scheduled to resume in 2020 but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series did resume in 2023, a Syracuse 65–0 win in which Syracuse took the lead in the all-time series for the first time in series history and are on a current 17-game winning streak in the series. The teams are scheduled to meet in 2025.

Notable games

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  • 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.[12]
  • 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

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Colgate victoriesSyracuse victoriesTie games
No.DateLocationWinnerScore
1 November 7, 1891 Syracuse, NY Colgate 22–16
2 October 26, 1893 Hamilton, NY Colgate 58–0
3 October 6, 1894 Hamilton, NY Colgate 32–8
4 November 9, 1895 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 4–0
5 October 24, 1896 Syracuse, NY Colgate 6–0
6 October 16, 1897 Hamilton, NY Tie6–6
7 October 11, 1902 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 23–0
8 October 17, 1903 Syracuse, NY Colgate 10–5
9 October 8, 1904 Syracuse, NY Colgate 11–0
10 October 21, 1905 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 11–5
11 October 20, 1906 Syracuse, NY Colgate 5–0
12 November 7, 1908 Syracuse, NY Colgate 6–0
13 November 13, 1909 Syracuse, NY Colgate 6–5
14 November 12, 1910 Syracuse, NY Colgate 11–6
15 November 16, 1912 Syracuse, NY Colgate 7–0
16 November 15, 1913 Syracuse, NY Colgate 35–13
17 November 14, 1914 Syracuse, NY Tie0–0
18 November 13, 1915 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 38–0
19 November 18, 1916 Syracuse, NY Colgate 15–0
20 November 17, 1917 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 27–7
21 November 15, 1919 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 13–7
22 November 20, 1920 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 14–0
23 November 12, 1921 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 14–0
24 November 18, 1922 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 14–7
25 November 17, 1923 Syracuse, NY Colgate 16–7
26 November 22, 1924 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 7–3
27 November 14, 1925 Syracuse, NY Colgate 19–6
28 November 13, 1926 Syracuse, NY Tie10–10
29 November 12, 1927 Syracuse, NY Tie13–13
30 November 17, 1928 Syracuse, NY Colgate 30–6
31 November 16, 1929 Syracuse, NY Colgate 21–0
32 November 15, 1930 Syracuse, NY Colgate 36–7
33 November 14, 1931 Syracuse, NY Colgate 21–7
34 November 12, 1932 Syracuse, NY Colgate 16–0
35 November 18, 1933 Syracuse, NY Colgate 13–3
No.DateLocationWinnerScore
36 November 17, 1934 Syracuse, NY Colgate 13–2
37 November 16, 1935 Syracuse, NY Colgate 27–0
38 November 21, 1936 Syracuse, NY Colgate 13–0
39 November 20, 1937 Syracuse, NY Colgate 7–0
40 November 5, 1938[13] Syracuse, NY Syracuse 7–0
41 November 18, 1939 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 7–0
42 November 16, 1940 Syracuse, NY Colgate 7–6
43 November 15, 1941 Syracuse, NY Tie19–19
44 November 14, 1942 Syracuse, NY Colgate 14–0
45 November 18, 1944 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 43–13
46 November 17, 1945 Syracuse, NY Colgate 7–6
47 November 16, 1946 Syracuse, NY Colgate 25–7
48 November 15, 1947 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 7–0
49 November 13, 1948 Syracuse, NY Colgate 20–13
50 November 19, 1949 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 35–7
51 November 18, 1950 Syracuse, NY Colgate 19–14
52 November 17, 1951 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 9–0
53 November 15, 1952 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 20–14
54 November 14, 1953 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 34–18
55 November 13, 1954 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 31–12
56 November 12, 1955 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 26–19
57 November 17, 1956 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 61–7
58 November 16, 1957 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 34–6
59 November 15, 1958 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 47–0
60 November 14, 1959 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 71–0
61 November 12, 1960 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 46–6
62 November 11, 1961 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 51–8
63 October 31, 1981 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 47–24
64 October 30, 1982 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 49–15
65 October 24, 1987 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 52–6
66 September 25, 2010 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 42–7
67 September 3, 2016 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 33–7
68 September 2, 2023 Syracuse, NY Syracuse 65–0
Series: Syracuse leads 32–31–5[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kelley, Kevin (January 15, 2024). "Colgate adds seven future opponents, includes game at Syracuse in 2025". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "Colgate, Syracuse set to renew football rivalry". ESPN. September 22, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ^ "Return Of The Hoodoo: Colgate Officially Added To Syracuse's Schedule". nunesmagician.com. April 29, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  4. ^ "Colgate to renew historic football rivalry with Syracuse". Colgate University. April 29, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  5. ^ "Colgate Connect - Go 'gate". colgate.imodules.com. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  6. ^ "HOODOO! The Syracuse / Colgate Football Rivalry". Syracuse University. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  7. ^ "The war game: Syracuse-Colgate was once a fierce rivalry of scalping, kidnapping, fly-overs". dailyorange.com. September 22, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  8. ^ "UNBEATEN SYRACUSE CAUTIOUS OF COLGATE". The New York Times. October 24, 1987. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  9. ^ "Syracuse wallops Colgate in renewal of rivalry". Observer-Dispatch. September 26, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  10. ^ "Syracuse renewing Colgate rivalry". Times Union. September 25, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  11. ^ "Syracuse Football: Colgate Breaking Out The Hoodoo In 2016". nunesmagician.com. April 8, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  12. ^ "Syracuse football and Colgate to meet at Carrier Dome in 2016". The Post-Standard. April 7, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  13. ^ "Syracuse Daily Orange Has a Record Edition". Elizabethtown Chronicle. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. December 23, 1938. p. 2. Retrieved November 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Colgate vs Syracuse (NY)". cfbdatawarehouse.com. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
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