1916 Holy Cross football team

1916 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainRaymond Lynch
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 0 – 0
Brown   –   8 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   8 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   6 – 1 – 1
Swarthmore   –   6 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   6 – 2 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   6 – 2 – 1
Dartmouth   –   5 – 2 – 2
Harvard   –   7 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 1 – 2
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   4 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   3 – 2 – 2
NYU   –   4 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   3 – 4 – 1
Geneva   –   2 – 5 – 2
Carlisle   –   1 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   2 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 9 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 5 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   1 – 7 – 0
Villanova   –   1 – 8 – 0

The 1916 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1916 college football season.

In its third year under head coach Luke Kelly, the team compiled a 4–5 record. Raymond Lynch was the team captain.[1] He replaced captain-elect Mark Devlin, who withdrew from the school before the season began.[2]

Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23 Connecticut
W 7–0 [3]
September 30 Princeton
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
L 0–21 6,000 [4]
October 7 Bates
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 3–0 [5]
October 14 at Army
L 0–17 [6]
November 4 vs. Rutgers
L 6–14 3,000 [7]
November 11 at Bowdoin
W 19–10 2,500 [8]
November 18 Fordham
  • Fitton Field
  • Worcester, MA (rivalry)
L 0–40 1,500 [9][10]
November 25 at Worcester Polytechnic
  • Alumni Field
  • Worcester, MA
W 9–6 [11]
December 2^ at Boston College
L 14–17 8,000 [12]
  • ^ rescheduled from November 30 due to inclement weather[13]

References

  1. ^ "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ "Terse News of Sports". The New York Times. March 24, 1916.
  3. ^ "Holy Cross Gets Lucky Win 7 to 0". The Sunday Post. Boston, Mass. September 24, 1916. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Tigers Get Edge on Holy Cross in Early Periods". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. October 1, 1916. Sporting sect., p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Holy Cross Goal from Field Beats Bates, 3-0". Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine. October 9, 1916. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Oliphant Stars as Army Beats Holy Cross Men". New-York Tribune. New York, N.Y. October 15, 1916. sect. II, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Rutgers Too Strong for Holy Cross Men". New-York Tribune. New York, N.Y. November 5, 1916. sect. II, p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Bowdoin is Beaten by Holy Cross". The Sunday Post. Boston, Mass. November 12, 1916. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Fordham Humbles Holy Cross, 40 to 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, N.Y. November 19, 1916. p. 37 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Fordham Buries Holy Cross, 40 to 0". The Sun. November 19, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Holy Cross Wins by Daley's Field Goal". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 26, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Sweeney, Lawrence J. (December 3, 1916). "Boston Wins Bitter Battle". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Boston College and Purple Tomorrow". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Mass. December 1, 1916. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.