1949 Syracuse Orangemen football team

1949 Syracuse Orangemen football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainJames Fiacco
Home stadiumArchbold Stadium
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Saint Vincent    10 0 0
No. 4 Army    9 0 0
Gannon    8 0 0
Trinity (CT)    8 0 0
Brown    8 1 0
No. 12 Cornell    8 1 0
No. 13 Villanova    8 1 0
Bucknell    6 2 0
Dartmouth    6 2 0
Buffalo    6 3 0
Pittsburgh    6 3 0
Princeton    6 3 0
Fordham    5 3 0
Tufts    5 3 1
Carnegie Tech    5 3 1
Penn State    5 4 0
Temple    5 4 0
Penn    4 4 0
Yale    4 4 0
Boston College    4 4 1
Syracuse    4 5 0
Drexel    3 3 1
Duquesne    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 5 2
CCNY    2 5 1
NYU    3 6 0
Columbia    2 7 0
Hofstra    1 5 1
Colgate    1 8 0
Harvard    1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1949 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1949 college football season. This was Syracuse's first season under head coach Ben Schwartzwalder, who would eventually coach at the school for 25 years and become Syracuse's all-time winningest coach. The Orangemen finished the season with a record of 4–5.