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1940 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

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1940 Holy Cross Crusaders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5–1
Head coach
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Boston College     11 0 0
Duquesne     7 1 0
No. 14 Penn     6 1 1
Penn State     6 1 1
No. 12 Fordham     7 2 0
No. 15 Cornell     6 2 0
La Salle     6 2 0
Princeton     5 2 1
Columbia     5 2 2
Brown     6 3 1
Bucknell     4 2 2
Boston University     5 3 0
Colgate     5 3 0
Hofstra     4 3 0
Harvard     3 2 3
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Temple     4 4 1
Tufts     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 0
Villanova     4 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 4 1
Syracuse     3 4 1
Buffalo     3 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 5 0
Manhattan     3 6 0
Providence     3 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Yale     1 7 0
Army     1 7 1
CCNY     1 5 1
Massachusetts State     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In its second year under head coach Joe Sheeketski, the team compiled a 4–5–1 record.[1] The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28ProvidenceW 34–615,000[2]
October 5at LSUL 0–25
October 12at Carnegie TechPittsburgh, PAW 18–0
October 19at NYUW 13–712,000[3]
October 26at BrownProvidence, RIL 6–9
November 2Colgate
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 0–6
November 9Ole Miss
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 6–34
November 16Temple
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
T 6–6
November 23Manhattan
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 33–25
November 30vs. Boston CollegeL 0–739,000

References

  1. ^ "2014 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross. p. 122. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. ^ "Holy Cross wins easily over Friars". The Hartford Courant. September 29, 1940. Retrieved May 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Crusaders top Violets, 13–7". Daily News. October 20, 1940. p. 93. Retrieved February 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.