1911 Holy Cross football team

1911 Holy Cross football
Conference	Independent
1911 record	4–5
Head coach	Timothy F. Larkin (5th season)
Captain	William Joy
Home stadium	Fitton Field
Seasons ←  1910 1912  →

1911 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	1
Carlisle			–					11	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	0	–	2
Trinity (CT)			–					6	–	0	–	2
Temple			–					6	–	1	–	0
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	2	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					5	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	4	–	0
St. Bonaventure			–					2	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	3	–	3
Colgate			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					3	–	6	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					0	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1911 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1911 college football season.

In its fifth year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 4–5 record. William Joy was the team captain. ^[1]

Though both Holy Cross and Dartmouth record their 1911 meeting in Hanover as a 6–0 win for the home team, officials on the field ruled it a 1–0 forfeit, as the Holy Cross team left the stadium after three quarters of play, reportedly to catch a train. Dartmouth 6, Holy Cross 0, was the score at the time of the forfeit. ^[2]

The season-ending home game against crosstown rival Worcester Polytechnic Institute was postponed a week because of flooding on Holy Cross' home field. ^[3] When the game was finally played November 25, about 4,000 people attended. ^[4]

Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 23	Boston College	Fitton Field Worcester, MA (rivalry)	W 13–5	[5]
September 30	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–26	[6]
October 7	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 0–8	[7]
October 14	at Dartmouth	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	L 0–6^	[2]
October 21	Massachusetts	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 6–0	[8]
October 28	at Princeton	Osborne Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–20	[9]
November 4	Springfield Training School	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–12	[10]
November 11	Colby	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 24–0	[11]
November 25°	Worcester Tech	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 35–0	[4]
^ also reported as a 0–1 forfeit loss ° Postponed from Nov. 18 [3]

References

1. "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
2. "Holy Cross Forfeits Game". New-York Tribune . New York, N.Y. October 15, 1911. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Postponed a Week". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 19, 1911. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Holy Cross 35, Wor Tech 0". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 26, 1911. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Holy Cross Eleven Wins". New-York Tribune . New York, N.Y. September 24, 1911. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Holy Cross Fell in Yale's Hands". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pa. October 1, 1911. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Harvard Beats Holy Cross 8 to 0". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. October 8, 1911. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Holy Cross 6, M.A.C. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. October 22, 1911. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Tiger Claws Rip Up Holy Cross Eleven". Brooklyn Eagle . Brooklyn, N.Y. October 29, 1911. sect. 5, p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Springfield T.S. Wins". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 5, 1911. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Holy Cross 24, Colby 0". The Bangor Daily News . Bangor, Maine. November 13, 1911. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.