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1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

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1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1935
1937 →
1936 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Anselm     6 0 1
No. 3 Pittsburgh     8 1 1
No. 10 Penn     7 1 0
No. 12 Yale     7 1 0
No. 13 Dartmouth     7 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     7 1 1
No. 14 Duquesne     8 2 0
Boston College     6 1 2
Boston University     5 1 2
No. 15 Fordham     5 1 2
Holy Cross     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Colgate     6 3 0
Drexel     6 3 0
Temple     6 3 2
La Salle     6 3 1
Buffalo     5 3 0
Columbia     5 3 0
Princeton     4 2 2
Saint Vincent     5 3 0
NYU     5 3 1
Manhattan     6 4 0
Northeastern     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
CCNY     4 4 0
Tufts     3 3 1
Harvard     3 4 1
Cornell     3 5 0
Penn State     3 5 0
Westminster (PA)     2 4 1
Brown     3 7 0
Carnegie Tech     2 6 0
Massachusetts State     2 6 0
Providence     1 7 0
Syracuse     1 7 0
Vermont     1 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 1936 college football season.[1] The Crusaders were led by fourth-year head coach Eddie Anderson and played their home games at Fitton Field on campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. The team competed as a football independent. Holy Cross started the year on a five game winning streak, which helped land them a spot in the first ever AP Poll, released on October 19, 1936, being ranked 17th in that poll. Losses to Temple and rival Boston College and a tie to Saint Anselm knocked the Crusaders out of the polls by the end of the year. The team finished with an overall record of 7–2–1.

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26BatesW 45–0
October 3Providence
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 21–610,000[2]
October 10at DartmouthW 7–0
October 17Manhattan
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 13–710,000
October 24Carnegie TechNo. 17
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 7–0
October 31at TempleNo. 13L 0–3
November 7Colgate
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 20–13
November 14at BrownNo. 17W 32–0
November 21Saint AnselmNo. 17
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
T 0–0
November 28at Boston CollegeL 12–1328,000
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

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Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked т = Tied with team above or below
Week
Poll123456Final
AP1713T1717

References

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  1. ^ "1936 Holy Cross Crusaders Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  2. ^ "Fighting Friars give Crusaders hard opposition". The Hartford Courant. October 4, 1936. Retrieved May 1, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.