1950 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

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1950 Holy Cross Crusaders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5–1
Head coach
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1949
1951 →
1950 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Franklin & Marshall   –   9 – 0 – 0
No. 6 Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 0
St. Lawrence   –   8 – 0 – 0
Thiel   –   7 – 0 – 0
No. 2 Army   –   8 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   8 – 1 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   7 – 1 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 3 – 0
Yale   –   6 – 3 – 0
Buffalo   –   5 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 5 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 4 – 1
Tufts   –   4 – 4 – 1
Columbia   –   4 – 5 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 1
Dartmouth   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston University   –   3 – 5 – 0
Duquesne   –   2 – 6 – 1
Hofstra   –   2 – 6 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 5 – 1
CCNY   –   1 – 7 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 7 – 0
Brown   –   1 – 8 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Boston College   –   0 – 9 – 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1950 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1950 college football season. In its seventh, non-consecutive year under head coach Eddie Anderson, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record.[1] The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at Dartmouth
T 21–21 13,000 [2]
October 7Brown
W 41–21 20,000 [3]
October 14at Colgate
L 28–35 7,000 [4]
October 21Syracusedagger
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 27–34 18,000 [5]
October 28at Yale
L 13–14 30,000 [6]
November 4at Harvard
W 26–7 11,000 [7]
November 11at Marquette
L 19–21 16,500 [8]
November 18Georgetown
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 14–21 12,000 [9]
November 25Temple
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 26–21 5,000 [10]
December 2vs. Boston College
W 32–14 25,035 [11]
  • daggerHomecoming

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2014 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross. p. 122. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. ^ "Dartmouth in Tie with Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 1, 1950. p. S1.
  3. ^ "Holy Cross Passes Rout Brown, 41-21". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. October 8, 1950. p. S4.
  4. ^ Slattery, Jack (October 15, 1950). "Holy Cross Dumped by 35-28". The Sunday Press. Binghamton, N.Y. p. 1D – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Fitzgerald, Tom (October 22, 1950). "Holy Cross Bows to Syracuse, 34-27". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Lee, Bill (October 29, 1950). "Luck, Skill of Irish at Yale Too Much for Holy Cross". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Holy Cross Capitalizes on Harvard Mistakes to Gain Victory at Cambridge". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 5, 1950. p. S3.
  8. ^ Thisted, Red (November 12, 1950). "Marquette Nips Holy Cross, 21 to 19". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 46 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Keane, Clif (November 19, 1950). "Georgetown Clips Sluggish H.C., 21 to 14". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Holbrook, Bob (November 26, 1950). "H.C. Ground Game Beats Temple 26-21". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Nason, Jerry (December 3, 1950). "Holy Cross Rally Beats B.C., 32-14". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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