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1912 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–3–1
Head coach
Captain Frederick V. Ostergren
Home stadium Fitton Field
Seasons
←  1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 0
Penn State   –   8 – 0 – 0
Carlisle   –   12 – 1 – 1
Maine   –   7 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   7 – 1 – 1
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 2 – 0
Wesleyan   –   7 – 2 – 0
Colgate   –   5 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Rhode Island State   –   6 – 3 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 4 – 0
Army   –   5 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Rutgers   –   5 – 4 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   3 – 3 – 0
Morris Harvey   –   2 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   4 – 5 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 5 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   3 – 6 – 0
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 1
Cornell   –   3 – 7 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 6 – 0

The 1912 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent diring the 1912 college football season. In its sixth and final year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record. Frederick V. Ostergren was the team captain. [1] Holy Cross played home games at Fitton Field on the college's campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. A new concrete grandstand was dedicated at the first home game, on October 12. [2]

Holy Cross was scheduled to visit Army on November 2, but the game was canceled due to the funeral of United States Vice President James S. Sherman. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28 at Yale
L 0–7 2,000 [4]
October 5 at Harvard
L 0–19 7,000 [5]
October 12 Norwich
L 0–6 [2]
October 19 at Springfield YMCA
W 7–0 [6]
October 26 Massachusetts
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
T 6–6 [7]
November 2 at Army
Canceled [3]
November 9 Vermont
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 13–0 [3]
November 16 Worcester Polytechnic
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 27–0 [8]
November 28 at Saint Louis
W 24–15 8,000 [9]

References

  1. ^ "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Norwich Beats Holy Cross 6-0". The Barre Daily Times. Burlington, Vt. October 14, 1912. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Two Touchdowns by Holy Cross". Burlington Daily Free Press. Burlington, Vt. November 11, 1912. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Finds Holy Cross Worthy Foe". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. September 29, 1912. Sporting section, p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Harvard Finds Holy Cross Easy". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 6, 1912. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Blunder Costs a Game". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 20, 1912. sect. 2, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Miliken to the Rescue". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 27, 1912. sect. 2, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Holy Cross 27, Wor P.I. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 17, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "St. Louis University Wages Strenuous Battle Against Holy Cross, but Is Returned Loser, with Score 24 to 15". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Mo. November 29, 1912. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
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