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*1889*
On Nov. 23 Syracuse travels to Rochester for its first intercollegiate
football game. Wearing pink and blue uniforms, SU is trounced 36-0 to
finish the year 0-1.
*1890*
Orange is adopted as the school color and Syracuse athletic teams are
henceforth known as "Orangemen". SU defeats Rochester 4-0 in the season
opener for its first football victory, en route to an 8-3 record.
*1891*
Stephen Crane, author of the Civil War classic, "Red Badge of Courage,"
is a member of the SU squad.
*1896*
The Orangemen play their first opponent from outside of New York state,
losing to Williams (MA) College, 24-6.
*1897*
The Colgate "Hoodoo" is born when a newspaper reporter sympathetic to
the Red Raiders cause tackles an SU player who was on his way to scoring
the winning touchdown. The game ends in a 6-6 tie.
*1900*
Edwin Sweetland, a Cornell grad, is hired as head coach and to start the
crew program. Later, he will coach against SU as the head man at Colgate.
*1907*
Archbold Stadium, a 20,000 seat stadium, opens providing the Orangemen
with one of the finest facilities of its time.
*1908*
SU plays its first game against a Big Ten foe, beating Michigan 28-4.
Marquis (Bill) Horr becomes SUs first All-America pick.
*1915*
SUs first powerhouse team goes 9-1-2, recording seven shutouts and
outscoring the opposition 331-16. SU is invited to the Rose Bowl to play
Washington, but declines because an earlier west coast trip (the first
by an eastern school) to Oregon State had used up the travel budget.
*1922*
The Penn State series starts with the first game played in the Polo
Grounds in New York City ending in a scoreless tie. The clubs met
regularly until 1990, when PSU ended the series.
*1926*
Vic Hanson earns All-America honors in football and captains the
basketball team to the national championship. Hanson is the only athlete
in both the Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
*1929*
SU plays the first night game in the east, beating Hobart 77-0. Lew
Andreas, who went on to become SUs winningest basketball coach,
completes a three-year stint as football coach.
*1938*
Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, one of the first black quarterbacks to play college
football, leads SU to a stunning 19-17 comeback win over Cornell. Among
Sidat-Singhs teammates Olympic sprinter and legendary sports announcer
Marty Glickman and the great Michigan State coach Hugh "Duffy" Daugherty.
*1943*
Syracuse University suspends intercollegiate sports due to World War II.
*1949*
Ben Schwartzwalder is hired as head coach. The Orange had just completed
its fifth straight losing season, still the longest losing stretch in SU
history.
*1952*
Syracuse goes 7-2 and accepts its first bowl invitation. SU is crushed
by Alabama in the Orange Bowl, 61-6.
*1954*
A halfback from Long Island, well down on the preseason depth chart, is
issued jersey number 44. His name is Jim Brown.
*1956*
With a bowl bid on the line in the regular season finale vs. Colgate,
Brown scores an NCAA record 43 points and SU wins 61-7. The Orange
finishes 7-1 and goes to the Cotton Bowl, where it is nipped by TCU,
28-27. Brown breaks the SU rushing record with 986 yards and earns first
team All-America honors. He goes on to a Hall of Fame career with the
NFLs Cleveland Browns.
*1959*
Undefeated, untied and national champions. The Orange cap off an 11-0
season with its first bowl win, a 23-14 victory over Texas in the Cotton
Bowl. Syracuse enjoys its finest time on the gridiron, pulverizing its
foes both offensively and defensively. The defense allowed only 193
yards in 10 games, a mind-boggling statistic. On offense, the Orange
averaged 451 yards per game.
*1961*
Ernie Davis wins the Heisman Trophy to become the first black to receive
college footballs most prestigious award. Along the way, he breaks Jim
Browns SU career rushing record and closes his career by leading the
Orange to a Liberty Bowl win over Miami. Less than two years later, he
died of leukemia.
*1966*
Floyd Little and Larry Csonka, the greatest 1-2 running punch in Orange
annals, lead the team to an 8-2 record and a Gator Bowl berth. Little
sets an SU bowl record with 216 yards and Csonka adds 114, but the
Orange falls to Tennessee, 18-12.
*1970*
Facing a boycott by black athletes, Syracuse is outscored 100-29 in its
first three games, but rebounds to win six of its next seven.
*1972*
A loss in the season finale gives the Orange a 5-6 record and ends a
streak of 22-straight non-losing seasons.
*1973*
Ben Schwartzwalder retires after guiding the Orangemen to a 153-91 mark
in 25 years.
*1974*
Frank Maloney becomes head coach as the Schwartzwalder era comes to a
close.
*1979*
With Archbold Stadium suffering from old age, the stadium is razed. SU
spends the entire season on the road, playing "home" games in the
Meadowlands, Buffalo and Ithaca. Despite the obstacles, future NFL
players Joe Morris, Art Monk, Bill Hurley, Craig Wolfley, Gary Anderson
and Jim Collins lead SU to its first bowl berth since 1967.
*1980*
Sept. 20 marks the beginning of a new era with the opening of the
Carrier Dome. Joe Morris scores four touchdowns and totals a record 300
all-purpose yards as the Orange christens its new home with a 36-24 win
over Miami of Ohio. An all-time Syracuse record crowd of 50,564
witnesses the event.
*1981*
Down-easterner Dick MacPherson arrives on the scene, replacing Maloney.
Joe Morris concludes his career as SUs all-time leading rusher.
*1984*
A turning of the tides in SUs football fortunes; SU stuns top-ranked
Nebraska 17-9 in the Carrier Dome.
*1985*
SU begins a run of seven bowl berths in eight years, earning a spot
opposite Maryland in the Cherry Bowl. SU loses to the Terps 35-18,
finishing the year 7-5.
*1987*
SU goes 11-0 in the regular season and earns a trip to the Sugar Bowl,
its first New Years Day Bowl bid since 1965. Auburns poorly named Win
Lyle kicks a last second field goal to pull out a 16-16 tie, the first
deadlock in Sugar Bowl history. SUs sensational QB Don McPherson
finishes second in the Heisman race, but earns several other Player of
the Year honors.
*1988*
SU puts together consecutive double-figure win seasons for the first
time ever, climaxing a 10-2 season with a 23-10 victory over LSU in the
Hall of Fame Bowl on New Years Day.
*1989*
Syracuse observes its 100th birthday and earns a record third-straight
bowl invite. This time it is the Orange that hit a last minute field
goal, by John Biskup, to edge Georgia, 19-18, in the Peach Bowl and cap
off an 8-4 season.
*1990*
The Orange go "only" 7-4-2, but the players dont seem to mind when the
reward is a trip to Honolulu for the Aloha Bowl. SU puts the finishing
touches on its fourth-straight bowl by shutting out Arizona, 28-0,
behind freshman quarterback Marvin Graves. The Wildcats had not been
shut out in 20 seasons (214 games), the second longest streak in NCAA
history.
*1991*
Paul Pasqualoni replaces Dick MacPherson as head coach and SU joins the
BIG EAST Football Conference. Pasqualoni leads the Orangemen to a 10-2
record, a perfect 5-0 BIG EAST record and a 24-17 win over Ohio State in
the Hall of Fame Bowl on New Years Day. The 10 wins for a rookie coach
has been surpassed just twice in the history of major college football.
*1992*
Coach P and the Orangemen again win 10 games and make their second
straight New Years Day bowl appearance, knocking off Colorado 24-22 at
the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe. It is the fifth-straight bowl win for
Syracuse, the second-best streak in the country behind Florida State.
SUs thrilling 16-10 loss to Miami in the Carrier Dome serves notice that
there is more than one major power in The BIG EAST Football Conference.
*1993*
Another year, another winning season. The Orangemen finish with a 6-4-1
overall record for a seventh straight winning season. Breaking records
is a regular occurance during the campaign. Marvin Graves set new marks
in almost every passing and total offensive category, while Shelby Hill,
Pat ONeill and Kevin Mitchell also leave their names in the SU record
books.
*1994*
In keeping with the tone in the recent past, the Orangemen record an
eighth straight winning season, finishing 7-4 overall and in third place
in the BIG EAST. The passing combination of Kevin Mason to Marvin
Harrison is prominent throughout the year, while the return of Dan
Conley for a sixth season of competition after numerous knee surgeries
was a story of perseverance and dedication.
*1995*
A young SU team posts a 9-3 season and a victory in the Toyota Gator
Bowl. The emergence of Donovan McNabb from a crowded young quarterback
battle and his immediate chemistry with receiver Marvin Harrison
provides thrills and records, as Harrison established himself as one of
the all-time great receivers at Syracuse. Outstanding performances on
both sides of the line of scrimmage highlight the season.
*1996*
Despite getting off to an 0-2 start, the Orangemen won a share of The
BIG EAST Conference title and once again were among the nations elite. A
mid-season eight game win streak, led by the balanced play between
offense, defense and special teams, earned the Orangemen another
post-season berth. Syracuse beat Houston in the Liberty Bowl for its
seventh-consecutive bowl victory, which was the nations longest active
bowl win streak.
*1997*
Syracuse won its first-ever outright BIG EAST Conference championship,
clinched by a triumphant 33-18 victory at Miami. The Orangemen won eight
straight games en route to the title, after opening the season with a
victory against Wisconsin in the Kick Off Classic. After three straight
losses and a 1-3 record, including the first-ever overtime game in
school history against North Carolina State, the Orange beat Tulane to
ignite the eight-game win streak. A 35-18 loss to Kansas State in the
Fiesta Bowl did not detract from the fact that the Orangemen were one of
six teams to earn an alliance bowl bid.
*1998*
The Orangemen started the season hosting eventual national champion
Tennessee at the Carrier Dome. After a close 34-33 loss, the Orangemen
defeated defending national champion Michigan in Ann Arbor the following
week, 38-28. From there, SU went 7-3 and won its second outright BIG
EAST title and third in a row (SU shared the crown in 1996) with a 66-13
victory against Miami in the Carrier Dome. For its efforts, SU earned an
alliance bowl bid, facing Florida in the Orange Bowl. The Orangemen
lost, 31-10.
*1999*
Syracuse earned a bowl invitation for the fifth straight year and the
11th time in the last 13 years. The Orange posted a 7-5 record in the
final season of the millenium. The Orangemen kicked it off two victories
and closed the century with a 20-13 victory against Kentucky in the
Music City Bowl. In between SU beat three BIG EAST teams and lost to
four. Michigan exacted revenge against the Orange with a 18-13 victory
in the Dome after SU had gone to Ann Arbor the previous year and beaten
the Wolverines.
*2000*
Syracuse continued its streak of winning seasons with its 14th in a row.
Cornerback Will Allen was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft.
*2001*
Syracuse continues its streak of winning seasons with its 15th in a row
with a 10-3 record. SU is one of just four schools that can make the
claim. SU beats Kansas State in the Insight.com Bowl for SU?s 12th bowl
win. Consensus All-American Dwight Freeney is selected in the first
round of the NFL Draft, marking the fifth year in a row that an SU
player has heard his name in the opening round.