1918 Holy Cross football team

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1918 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0
Head coach
CaptainNone
Home stadium Fitton Field
Seasons
  1917
1919  
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell   600
Princeton   300
Holy Cross   200
Army   100
Buffalo   610
Columbia   510
Syracuse   510
Pittsburgh   410
Boston College   520
Rutgers   520
Franklin & Marshall   210
Geneva   420
Swarthmore   420
Harvard   210
Fordham   421
Villanova   320
Penn   530
Dartmouth   330
Lehigh   440
Washington & Jefferson   220
New Hampshire   221
Lafayette   340
Brown   230
Tufts   230
Penn State   121
Vermont   011
Drexel   010
NYU   040

The 1918 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1918 college football season.

In its first and only year under head coach Bart Sullivan, the team compiled a 2–0 record. No team captain was named. [1]

Amid the second-wave Spanish flu outbreak in late summer 1918, Holy Cross started the fall season with no scheduled intercollegiate football games for the first time in more than two decades. Like many New England colleges, Holy Cross did not even organize a football team until mid-October. [2]

Holy Cross played only two games in 1918, with a schedule set by the United Way War Work Fund, and proceeds benefitting the World War I effort. [3]

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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 16 Worcester Polytechnic W 27–7 [4]
November 23 Tufts
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 21–7 [5]

References

  1. "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. "Strong Football Teams in Sight". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Mass. October 14, 1918. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Big Sports Program for War Fund Drive". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Mass. November 12, 1918. p. 4 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Holy Cross Prove Best Scrappers". The Sunday Post . Boston, Mass. November 17, 1918. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Tufts' Fumbles Aid Purple to Victory". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Mass. November 24, 1918. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.