Syracuse has the nickname but has the 5th most Orange in their uniforms in the ACC

[SWC75]

These uniforms are awesome. Perfect shade of Orange, I would copy this shade of Orange and make the uniforms look exactly like they do now with this shade of uniform. What is so hard to ask for the Orange to wear an Orange jersey.

The interesting thing is the trim on the helmets: blue for most but white for Jim.

 

[NineOneSeven]

I don't care if the team is out there wearing orange speedos, as long as they at least keep it competitive in the 4th quarter, it's erroneous.

Wait what?

 

[CuseLegacy]

Don't think anyone has to worry about VT wearing Orange again...

It takes quite a day on the other side of the ball to hold Duke to 198 yards of offense and win, and Virginia Tech had that day. Aaaand VT blog The Key Play is aflutter about…
Did anyone else go "...oh " when they saw the uniforms for the first time?
The orange uniforms, however, have to go. Forever. Burn them. Never wear orange again.

Could someone compile a list of games that we have played in orange pants for me? My guess is we lost most of them.

I told my son as we made the march back to the car that the silver lining was we probably would never see these orange uniforms again.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sbnation/SBNation_20131029_This_Week_In_Schadenfreude__Missouri_and_the_importance_of_plumb_uprights.html#GuukvqLgwmWDWQQO.99​

 

[KaiserUEO]

The interesting thing is the trim on the helmets: blue for most but white for Jim.

interesting.

any reason for this?

i like that shade of Orange too.

 

[rosconey]

again with the grown men arguing over uniforms-

queer eye for the straight guy did way more damage than first thought-

 

[riskylogic]

Don't think anyone has to worry about VT wearing Orange again...

It takes quite a day on the other side of the ball to hold Duke to 198 yards of offense and win, and Virginia Tech had that day. Aaaand VT blog The Key Play is aflutter about…
Did anyone else go "...oh " when they saw the uniforms for the first time?
The orange uniforms, however, have to go. Forever. Burn them. Never wear orange again.

Could someone compile a list of games that we have played in orange pants for me? My guess is we lost most of them.

I told my son as we made the march back to the car that the silver lining was we probably would never see these orange uniforms again.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sbnation/SBNation_20131029_This_Week_In_Schadenfreude__Missouri_and_the_importance_of_plumb_uprights.html#GuukvqLgwmWDWQQO.99​

Perhaps, there is a message here. Some teams should wear orange, while others should not. Otherwise, the wrath of Great-Otto-in-the-Dome shall be visited upon them.

 

[SWC75]

interesting.

any reason for this?

i like that shade of Orange too.

I haven't come across one in my readings yet. If I do, I'll post it.

I did check one thing: we had game captains that year, so that's not what it means.

 

[SWC75]

The story behind the Zimmerman cover.

First, here's Chuck talking about it, I'd guess about 2008, which would be 50 years after it came out:
http://videos.syracuse.com/post-standard/2011/05/chuck_zimmerman_of_liverpool_o.html

The date of the issue is 10/27/58. Syracuse's most recent game at that juncture was a loss on the road to Penn State. The week before that, they'd beaten Nebraska in Archbold and I always sort of assumed that this was the Nebraska game. (The Huskers in the 50's had different uniforms with dark helmets rather than white- of course they would have been red but the Orange on the actual cover is a bit brighter than in the picture above so I though maybe the colors were off a bit).

Chuck mentions that it's a Holy Cross game. Syracuse played at Holy Cross in 1958, not in Archbold. The full picture, (above), reveals that it's not a 1958 photograph at all, because Jim Brown's in it. The one year that Chuck was quarterback with Jim was 1956. We played the Crusaders at home that year and won 41-20. That's the game Chuck is talking about. But he's wrong that the team wore Orange just because Holy Cross came out in white: the team wore Orange jerseys many times in the 1950's, including in the huge upset over Maryland that opened the season. Perhaps it had been agreed that the Crusaders would be in dark jersies for this one and they forgot to bring them.

Back in those days, it took a long to put a magazine together and much of the photography, especially the color photography, was from a previous event, often from the previous year's event. In this case, SI had on it's cover a shot from a game played two years before (11/10/56, to be specific). They cropped out Jim Brown not just to focus on Zimmerman but to avoid revealing that it was not a recent photograph, since Jim was well into his second year as a Cleveland Brown at that time.

Ironically, on the Table of Contents page, next to a thumbnail of the cover, it says "The traditional request for silence by Syracuse quarterback Chuck Zimmerman was not honored by football's fifth week." Perhaps it was not honored because he made it two years before!

 

[SWC75]

Here's another great shot from that game. To view it, click on the link, then "view this issue", "thumbnails" and go forward to pages 66-67:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1133116/index.htm

Unfortunately, I'm not able to copy it from that page and I can't find that photo elsewhere on the net.

This could be the same play. Who knows?

The Orangeman throwing the block, (you can't see his number), has the white stripe on his helmet and his hands are dark, so that's got to be Jim Brown. Who said he didn't block?

 

[SWC75]

The Zimmerman cover:

 

[TheCusian]

The zombie post re-animates! Eating the brains of other posts! Mumbling, "Orange, Orange, McNabb Classics, Orange!"

 

[KaiserUEO]

The story behind the Zimmerman cover.

First, here's Chuck talking about it, I'd guess about 2008, which would be 50 years after it came out:
http://videos.syracuse.com/post-standard/2011/05/chuck_zimmerman_of_liverpool_o.html

The date of the issue is 10/27/58. Syracuse's most recent game at that juncture was a loss on the road to Penn State. The week before that, they'd beaten Nebraska in Archbold and I always sort of assumed that this was the Nebraska game. (The Huskers in the 50's had different uniforms with dark helmets rather than white- of course they would have been red but the Orange on the actual cover is a bit brighter than in the picture above so I though maybe the colors were off a bit).

Chuck mentions that it's a Holy Cross game. Syracuse played at Holy Cross in 1958, not in Archbold. The full picture, (above), reveals that it's not a 1958 photograph at all, because Jim Brown's in it. The one year that Chuck was quarterback with Jim was 1956. We played the Crusaders at home that year and won 41-20. That's the game Chuck is talking about. But he's wrong that the team wore Orange just because Holy Cross came out in white: the team wore Orange jerseys many times in the 1950's, including in the huge upset over Maryland that opened the season. Perhaps it had been agreed that the Crusaders would be in dark jersies for this one and they forgot to bring them.

Back in those days, it took a long to put a magazine together and much of the photography, especially the color photography, was from a previous event, often from the previous year's event. In this case, SI had on it's cover a shot from a game played two years before (11/10/56, to be specific). They cropped out Jim Brown not just to focus on Zimmerman but to avoid revealing that it was not a recent photograph, since Jim was well into his second year as a Cleveland Brown at that time.

Ironically, on the Table of Contents page, next to a thumbnail of the cover, it says "The traditional request for silence by Syracuse quarterback Chuck Zimmerman was not honored by football's fifth week." Perhaps it was not honored because he made it two years before!

good stuff

 

[riskylogic]

Congrats to your Duke Blue Devils, Cutliffe should be given a nice big fat extension to prevent anybody from going after him I couldn't believe you beat VPI in Lane Stadium. If Stanford can be a top 25 team Duke should be able to be decent year in year out with NC recruiting ground and good school education to offer.

Well, it helps that we're not playing Stanford, or FSU, or Clemson. Wiped the three sure losses off our schedule. We're recruiting Ohio this year.

 

[OrangeDW]

Go back to these, and then leave them alone. These are the Syracuse football uniforms, and we're not going to dumb them down for some bonehead mass audience!

 

[TheCusian]

Go back to these, and then leave them alone. These are the Syracuse football uniforms, and we're not going to dumb them down for some bonehead mass audience!

I knew this was coming. Can't talk about uni's without these pics.

I love them too - just know that they look dated to me and I'm 36. I'm pretty confident recruits would think so too.

Uni's are not for fans. They are for the players.

 

[OrangeDW]

I knew this was coming. Can't talk about uni's without these pics.

I love them too - just know that they look dated to me and I'm 36. I'm pretty confident recruits would think so too.

Uni's are not for fans. They are for the players.

Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State, Alabama, Notre Dame, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, USC, Florida State...

as far as I know, there are a lot of schools who wear essentially the same uniforms that they always have.(not counting alternate jerseys worn on occasion) Any changes are minor. Like the McNabb era unir's had some slight alterations from the McPherson-Graves ones. I watch far less college football than I used to, so maybe a few have the above have gotten new ones very recently that I missed.

I'm younger than you, and "classic" college uniforms don't look dated to me. They look normal. All these new uni's look weird and are for the Oregon's and Virginia Tech's of the world who think college football started in 2003.

 

[TheCusian]

Michigan, Nebraska, Penn State, Alabama, Notre Dame, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, USC, Florida State...

as far as I know, there are a lot of schools who wear essentially the same uniforms that they always have.(not counting alternate jerseys worn on occasion) Any changes are minor. Like the McNabb era unir's had some slight alterations from the McPherson-Graves ones. I watch far less college football than I used to, so maybe a few have the above have gotten new ones very recently that I missed.

I'm younger than you, and "classic" college uniforms don't look dated to me. They look normal. All these new uni's look weird and are for the Oregon's and Virginia Tech's of the world who think college football started in 2003.

Fair point. But it really doesn't matter what we think. Uni's are for the players.