Sport: Carried Away In Syracuse

Clinging to tradition, the Orangemen are undefeated

As if playing for the basketball title were an elixir, the football teams of Indiana and Syracuse have kept the ball going into the fall. For the first time ever, the Hoosiers have trimmed both Ohio State and Michigan on the same calendar, and this time the Orangemen have gone them one better. On top of beating both Penn State and Pitt, 17 years in the trying, Syracuse is undefeated. It is 1959 again.

Ben Schwartzwalder has been gone from the sidelines for 14 seasons, and the team has been gone from the headlines for 20. But everything came back together...

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