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The 1959 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York during the 1959 college football season.Led by eleventh-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the independent Orangemen were undefeated and won the school's only national championship in football, topping the rankings by wide margins in the final polls in early December.
The Rebels have been rated as the 1959 national champion by Berryman QPRS, Billingsley Report, Dunkel System, and Sagarin Ratings. Fullback Charlie Flowers was a unanimous All-American selection. Three small college teams also claimed national championships: Bowling Green compiled a 9–0 record and was named the UPI small college national ...
Davis led the 1959 Syracuse team to a national championship, capping an 11–0 season with a 23–14 win over the Texas Longhorns in the 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic, where Davis was named Most Valuable Player. That same season, Elmira Star-Gazette sports writer Al Mallette coined the nickname for Davis, the "Elmira Express".
As a sophomore, Davis led the 1959 Syracuse team to a national championship, [9] capping an 11–0 season with a 23–14 win over the Texas Longhorns in the 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic, where Davis was named Most Valuable Player. That same season, Elmira Star-Gazette sports writer Al Mallette coined the nickname for Davis, the "Elmira Express". In ...
At Syracuse, Yates was a member of the undefeated Orange national championship team in 1959. [3] He was named first-team All-American and was later honored as one of the "Forty Four Players of the Century" at Syracuse.
1959: Syracuse: 11–0: W Cotton: 1: 1 ... National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth † Indicates Bowl Coalition ...
Last year, the 2019 LSU Tigers made their argument to be the greatest team in college football history. Just one year later, 2020 Alabama football entered the same conversation. “I think we’re ...
The 1959 team was an unprecedented powerhouse with both the toughest offense (313.6 yards rushing, 451.5 yard total and 39 points per game on average) and the toughest defense (giving only 19.3 yards rushing, 96.2 yards total per game on average) in the country. This remains Syracuse's only football national championship to date.