The Syracuse–West Virginia football rivalry is an American college football

rivalry A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant ...

between the Syracuse Orange football team of Syracuse University and

West Virginia Mountaineers football The West Virginia Mountaineers football team represents West Virginia University (also referred to as "WVU" or "West Virginia") in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. West Virginia plays its home games at Milan Puskar ...

team of

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State Coll ...

History

The Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy is the trophy that went annually to the winner of the game. It was introduced in

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and is named after former WVU football player and Syracuse head coach

Ben Schwartzwalder Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder (June 2, 1909 – April 28, 1993) was a Hall of Fame football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained future National Football League stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, t ...

, who died in April of that year. It was sculpted by Syracuse player

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. West Virginia won the first trophy game 43–0 at Syracuse and has gone on to win 11. Syracuse has won the trophy eight times and leads the series 34–27. With West Virginia's move to the

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in 2012 and Syracuse's move to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013, the future of the series is in doubt with no meetings currently planned. The two teams met in the

2012 Pinstripe Bowl The 2012 New Era Pinstripe Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 29, 2012 at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx in the United States. The third edition of the Pinstripe Bowl began at 3:15 ...

and

2018 Camping World Bowl The 2018 Camping World Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 2018, between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Syracuse Orange. It was the 29th edition of the Camping World Bowl, and one of the 2018–19 bowl games con ...

, which Syracuse won 38–14 and 34–18 respectively. However, the trophy was not exchanged.

Game results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Syracuse-West Virginia football rivalry College football rivalries in the United States Syracuse Orange football West Virginia Mountaineers football

History

Game results

See also

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