1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

1936 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football
1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football
Conference	Independent
1936 record	7–2–1
Head coach	Eddie Anderson (4th season);
Home stadium	Fitton Field
	Seasons ← 1935 1937 →

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[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result
September 26	Bates		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 45–0
October 3	Providence		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 21–6
October 10	at Dartmouth		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 7–0
October 17	Manhattan		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 13–7
October 24	Carnegie Tech	No. 17	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 7–0
October 31	at Temple	No. 13	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–3
November 7	Colgate		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 20–13
November 14	at Brown	No. 17	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 32–0
November 21	Saint Anslem	No. 17	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 0–0
November 28	vs. Boston College		Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 12–13
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings[]

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	Final
AP	Not released	17	13T	NR	17	17	NR	NR

References[]

^ "1936 Holy Cross Crusaders Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018.

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v t Holy Cross Crusaders football
Venues	Worcester College Grounds (1896–1902) (1897–1902) Fitton Field (1903–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1946 Orange Bowl Boston College Ram–Crusader Cup (Fordham)
Culture & lore	"" Holy Cross Goodtime Marching Band
People	NFL draftees
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1936 Eastern college football independents records
v t	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
Buffalo		–		5	–	3	–	0
Columbia		–		5	–	3	–	0
NYU		–		5	–	3	–	1
Princeton		–		4	–	2	–	2
Manhattan		–		6	–	4	–	0
La Salle		–		6	–	4	–	1
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
Brown		–		3	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		2	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	6	–	0
Syracuse		–		1	–	7	–	0
Vermont		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll