1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

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1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Home stadium Fitton Field
Seasons
←  1938
1940  →
1939 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 4 Cornell  – 8–0–0
No. 10 Duquesne  – 8–0–1
Swarthmore  – 6–0–1
Scranton  – 7–0–2
Princeton  – 7–1–0
La Salle  – 6–1–1
Penn State  – 5–1–2
No. 11 Boston College  – 9–2–0
No. 17 Fordham  – 6–2–0
Villanova  – 6–2–0
Boston University  – 5–3–0
Brown  – 5–3–1
Dartmouth  – 5–3–1
Hofstra  – 4–3–0
NYU  – 5–4–0
Pittsburgh  – 5–4–0
Harvard  – 4–4–0
Manhattan  – 4–4–0
Penn  – 4–4–0
Syracuse  – 3–3–2
Vermont  – 3–3–2
Tufts  – 3–4–1
Yale  – 3–4–1
Army  – 3–4–2
Bucknell  – 3–5–0
Carnegie Tech  – 3–5–0
Providence  – 3–5–0
Columbia  – 2–4–2
Massachusetts State  – 2–5–2
Colgate  – 2–5–1
Temple  – 2–7–0
CCNY  – 1–7–0
Buffalo  – 0–7–0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its first year under head coach Joe Sheeketski, the team compiled a 7–2 record. [1]

Holy Cross was ranked at No. 11 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939. [2] It was ranked at No. 42 in the 1939 Williamson System ratings. [3]

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

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Manhattan
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 28–020,000 [4] [5]
October 7 LSU
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 7–2625,000 [6]
October 14at Georgia
W 13–015,000 [7]
October 212:00 p.m. Brown
W 20–018,000 [8] [9]
October 28 Colgate
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 27–715,000 [10]
November 4 Providence
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 46–010,000 [11]
November 11 Temple
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 14–015,000 [12]
November 18 Carnegie Tech
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 21–030,000 [13]
December 2vs. Boston College
L 0–1440,000 [14]

References

  1. ↑ "2014 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross. p. 122. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ E. E. Litkenhous (December 31, 1939). "Vols Second In Final Litkenhous Grid Rankings; Southern California Tenth". Johnson City Sunday Press. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Paul Williamson (December 8, 1941). "Texas Aggies Ranked Nation's Top". The Atlanta Constitution. p. 26 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "20,000 Watch Holy Cross Play Manhattan". The Boston Globe. September 30, 1939. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Jaspers Beaten, 28–0". New York Daily News. October 1, 1939. p. C35 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "LSU Overwhelms Holy Cross, 26-7". New York Daily News. October 8, 1939. p. 103 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Jack Troy (October 15, 1939). "Georgia Bows, 13-0: Holy Cross Breaks Bulldogs' Yank Jinx". The Atlanta Constitution. pp. 1B, 5B – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "College Football Lineups Today". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1939. p. 6. Retrieved June 7, 2023– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  9. ↑ "Holy Cross Rips Brown Apart, 20-0". New York Daily News. October 22, 1939. p. 98 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Holy Cross Tops Colgate, 27 to 7". New York Daily News. October 29, 1939. p. C42 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Holy Cross smothers Providence team, 47–0". The Hartford Courant. November 5, 1939. Retrieved May 1, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Stan Baumgartner (November 12, 1939). "Holy Cross Defeats Temple Gridmen, 14-0; Pass and Interference Result in Score". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 5S – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Lester Biederman (November 19, 1939). "Holy Cross Long Runs Humble Carnegie Tech, 21-0: Crusaders Notch 23, 45, 55-Yard Gallops". The Pittsburgh Press. p. II-7 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Boston C. Upsets Holy Cross, 14-0, On Power Passes". New York Daily News. December 3, 1939. p. 101 – via Newspapers.com.


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