1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

1942 Eastern college football independents records
	Rankings from AP Poll

1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football
1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
AP	No. T–19
1942 record	5–4–1
Head coach	Ank Scanlan (1st season);
Home stadium	Fitton Field
	Seasons ← 1941 1943 →

The 1942 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1942 college football season. In its first year under head coach Ank Scanlan, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record.^[1] The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 26	Dartmouth	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 6–17
October 3	Duquesne	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–25
October 10	Fort Totten^{[disambiguation needed]}	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 60–0
October 17	Syracuse	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–19	10,000
October 24	NC State	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 28–0
October 31	Colgate	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 6–6
November 7	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	L 14–20
November 14	at Temple	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	W 13–0
November 21	Manhattan	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 28–0
November 28	at Boston College	Fenway Park Boston, MA	W 55–12	30,000

^ "2014 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). College of the Holy Cross. p. 122. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

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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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1942 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Williams		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 19 Penn State		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Boston College		–		8	–	2	–	0
Buffalo		–		6	–	2	–	0
Bucknell		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	2	–	1
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Syracuse		–		6	–	3	–	0
Duquesne		–		6	–	3	–	1
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Fordham		–		5	–	3	–	1
Penn		–		5	–	3	–	1
No. T–19 Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth		–		5	–	4	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	3	–	0
Boston University		–		4	–	5	–	0
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	1
Princeton		–		3	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	3
Columbia		–		3	–	6	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	5	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		1	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State		–		2	–	5	–	0
Harvard		–		2	–	6	–	1
Drexel		–		2	–	6	–	0
Manhattan		–		2	–	6	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	7	–	1

Rankings from AP Poll