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1908 Holy Cross football team

The 1908 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1908 college football season.

1908 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4
Head coach
CaptainDaniel J. Triggs
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   11 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 1 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 2
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 3
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 3
Wesleyan   –   3 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 2
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   1 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 7 – 0

In their second year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 4–4 record. Daniel J. Triggs was the team captain.[1]

After three years of sharing its home field with the college's baseball team, Holy Cross' football team moved its home games to a new stadium, also called Fitton Field, beyond the baseball team's right-field fence.

Mayor James Logan was present to blow the first whistle at the September 25 debut of the new football stadium on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.[2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 25 Norwich
W 5–0 600 [2]
October 3 at Vermont
L 0–5 1,500 [3]
October 10 at Yale
L 0–18 7,000 [4]
October 17 at Bowdoin Portland, ME W 12–5 [5]
October 24 Dartmouth
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 5–18 5,000 [6]
October 31 at Trinity (CT)
L 0–28 [7]
November 7 Tufts
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 6–0 [8]
November 14 Worcester Tech
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 16–0 [1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 117. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Norwich Held Well After First Rushes". The Barre Daily Times. Barre, Vt. September 28, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Vermont 5, Holy Cross 0". Burlington Daily News. Burlington, Vt. October 5, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale 18, Holy Cross 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 11, 1908. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Holy Cross 12, Bowdoin 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 18, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Dartmouth Scored Upon". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 25, 1908. p. S1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Joy at Trinity". The Hartford Daily Courant. Hartford, Conn. November 2, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Holy Cross 6, Tufts 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 8, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
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