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1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. T–19
Record5–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1941
1943 →
1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams     7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State     6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College     8 2 0
Buffalo     6 2 0
Bucknell     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Duquesne     6 3 1
Yale     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 1
Penn     5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross     5 4 1
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Brown     4 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Vermont     4 3 0
Carnegie Tech     3 3 0
Boston University     4 5 0
Cornell     3 5 1
Princeton     3 5 1
Temple     2 5 3
Columbia     3 6 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Tufts     2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall     1 4 2
Massachusetts State     2 5 0
Harvard     2 6 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Manhattan     2 6 0
CCNY     1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its first year under head coach Ank Scanlan, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record.[1]

Holy Cross was ranked at No. 41 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26DartmouthL 6–1725,000[3]
October 3Duquesne
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 0–25
October 10Fort Totten
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 60–06,000
October 17Syracuse
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 0–1910,000
October 24NC State
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 28–07,500[4]
October 31Colgate
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
T 6–6
November 7at Brown
L 14–20
November 14at TempleW 13–0
November 21Manhattan
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 28–0
November 28at No. 1 Boston CollegeW 55–1230,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

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Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked т = Tied with team above or below ( ) = First-place votes
Week
Poll1234567Final
AP19т (1)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "2014 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross. p. 122. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Childs, Kingsley (September 27, 1942). "Dartmouth Sinks Holy Cross, 17-6". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S4.
  4. ^ "Holy Cross surprises North Carolina State". The Hartford Courant. October 25, 1942. Retrieved December 22, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.


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