1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

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.

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

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.