Remembering the 1959 Syracuse football national champions, the greatest team in school history

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Remembering the 1959 Syracuse football national champions

We look back at the greatest team in Syracuse University history.

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1959 National Champs: Gerhard Schwedes captains Syracuse football

Gerhard Schwedes led Syracuse in rushing in 1959. Just before the 1959 season began, he was asked to be the quarterback.

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1959 National Champs: Syracuse beats Navy and college football world pays attention

Syracuse's Week 3 domination at Navy made the college football take notice.

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The movie The Express had many inaccuracies for movie drama but it does highlight who the best players on that team were.

 

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1959 National Champs: Art Baker, ‘a tough son of a gun’ for SU football

Ernie Davis is a Syracuse legend, but it was their other running back, Art Baker, which drove the Orange early on.

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1959 National Champs: The leader of SU football, Coach Ben

Ben Schwartzwalder was a World War II paratrooper and put together the greatest football team in Syracuse University history.

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1959 National Champs: SU beats Penn State in a thriller

The top 10 matchup between Syracuse and Penn State for Eastern football supremacy lives up to the hype.

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[SWC75]

Great articles. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

Every SU fan should have this book:

 

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1959 National Champs: SU beats Penn State in a thriller

The top 10 matchup between Syracuse and Penn State for Eastern football supremacy lives up to the hype.

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"Syracuse’s saving grace that day was Penn State’s inability to convert after touchdowns, they missed on all three of their kicks or two-point conversions. "
No two-point conversions back in the day.

 

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"Syracuse’s saving grace that day was Penn State’s inability to convert after touchdowns, they missed on all three of their kicks or two-point conversions. "
No two-point conversions back in the day.

Yes there were. it started in 1958. We won this game because Penn State failed on one.

 

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1959 National Champs: SU football fields the ‘perfect’ offense

The 1959 Syracuse University had what one college writer described as a "perfect offense."

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1959 National Champs: SU football’s immovable defense

The 1959 Syracuse University football team shut out five opponents and held two others under eight points.

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My Cuse pride and joy, '59 Ernie Davis and team and coach signed national championship ball

 

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1959 National Champs: Syracuse win at UCLA secures undefeated regular season

The last game of the 1959 season was SU's first regular season game on national television.

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1959 National Champs: Syracuse football fans celebrate undefeated season

Syracuse football fans go bonkers after win at UCLA in season finale.

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1959 National Champs: Race an undercurrent at the Cotton Bowl

The three African American Syracuse football players faced a hostile reception in Dallas before, during and after the Cotton Bowl.

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1959 National Champs: Syracuse wins the Cotton Bowl!

Syracuse finish off undefeated season with 23-14 win over Texas at the 1960 Cotton Bowl.

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1959 National Champs: Race an undercurrent at the Cotton Bowl

The three African American Syracuse football players faced a hostile reception in Dallas before, during and after the Cotton Bowl.

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"At the post-game banquet after the 23-14 Syracuse win, the three Syracuse black players were asked to leave after the speeches, meals and the handing out of trophies. They were taken by representatives of the NAACP to another party."

What an absolute abomination.