1912 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1912 Syracuse Orangemen football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5
Head coach	C. DeForest Cummings (2nd season)
Captain	Rudolph Propst
Home stadium	Archbold Stadium

1912 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Maine			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University as an independent during the 1912 college football season. Led by C. DeForest Cummings in his second and final season as head coach, the Orangemen compiled a record of 4–5. The team played home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 28	Hobart	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 12–0
October 5	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–21
October 12	Carlisle	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 0–33	[1]
October 19	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–62
October 26	Michigan	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 18–7
November 2	Rochester	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 28–0
November 9	at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	W 30–7
November 16	Colgate	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	L 0–7	[2]
November 23	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 7–23	[3]

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References

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