Holy Cross at Harvard

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  Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., September 26, 1920, page 1

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  HOLY CROSS HOLDS HARVARD GRID TEAM TO ONE FIELD GOAL tHv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL IsSseO “‘N.’ Cambridge. Mass. Sept. 20 Harvard’s football team was heid by Holy Cross to single field goal and won 3 to 0. in the open ing game of the season here To-Day. Harvard started with some falr rushing plays and with the aid OF a Holy Cross tumble carried the ball to the visitors seven yard me Here Buell. dropped an easy 1leid goal from the IS yard line, An other Crimson offensive In the third period placed the ball twice on the 1S-yard line but field goal attempts went wide. Holy Cross, capturing the ball IN mid field on a Harvard tumble IN the last period, drove it to the u yard line in four plays. Gagnon after being thrown back for no gain three times. tried field goal from the 35-yard line. but failed. A moment later, Harvard tumble gave Holy Cross the ball on the IL yard line. Instead of continuing plunges through center and outside OF tackle, Holy Cross switched to the forward pass and the first heave placed the ball squarely in Hamil- TONS hands. This seemed to take the punch out of the visitors Of fensive. A few minutes latersG Gag non. STANDING on Hafvard’s Az yard line, made a beautiful try at goal. but missed by q few feet.

• Richmond times-dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, Virginia, September 26, 1920

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  HARVARD WINS BY ONE FIELD GOAL IN FIRST GAME Holy Cross Held Crimson Warrior, All the Way In Straight Football. CHAMBRIDGE, MASS. Sept Is Harvard’s football team was held by holy Cross TO single field goal aud Won 10 o in the opening game OF tho season here today. Harvard started with some fair rushing plays. and with the aid of a tumble carried the ball TO the visitors seven-yard line. Here. Buell. dropped an easy field goal from the lS-yard line. Another crimson offensive In the third period placed the ball twice on the lS-yard line. but field goal at temptS wens wide. Holy Cross. capturing the ball in midhcld on a Harvard tumble, in the last period, drove it TO the 22yard line in four plays. Gagnon. after being thrown back for no gain three times. tried a field goal from the 35-yard line, but failed.

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  Evening journal, September 27, 1920, page 9 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL RESULTS Penn. 35; Delaware. 0. Harvard. 3; holy Cross. 0. Syracuse. 50, Hobart T. urslnus. ii; Rutgers. Z. Brown, %; Rhode Island, Z. Middlebury. 6. Union, 0. Maine. o: Boston, 0. Penn SLATE. 21. Nuhlengerg e. r-lnlly a: Connecticut Oggies, o Washington and jefferson, 2s; Beth any o. West Virginia, “a; W. vir. Wesley an, o. Bates. 3i: Fort Mckinley. 0. Indiana. a.: Franklin. o. Springfield, 2i. BowdOln. o. Vermont. 10; s.. Lawrence, 7 Wcslcrl Reserve, i6; Toledo, 3. Case, a., Hiram. 0. Wooster. 81: Baldwin-Nallace. O. Georgia Tech. “a: Wake Forest, 0 North Carolina state, %; Davidson, o. University OF Tennessee, i5; Emory and Henry College. o. Kalamazoo, 2i; “. A. G. 2 Drake. o.: Penn College, 0. Haskell “a; Baker. 0. Farm interests should be advertised

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  Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial, Delaware, September 27, 1920, page 8 (results column)

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  SATURDAYS FOOTBALL SCORES. Penn, 35; Delaware, 0. Ursinus, Id, Rutgers, z. Penn State, 27 Muhlenberg, 7. W. & j., a; Bethany, Q. Harvard. 3: Holy Cross, 0. j. NJ. c., 4; Vincome, 0. Springfield (Mass.)., 81; Bowdoin, O.. Syracuse. So; Hobart, 7. Brown University, 25; Rhode Island State, o. Middlebury, g: Union, 0. Trinity, Ia: Connecticut Agricultural College, o. University of Maine, 0; Boston Uni versity, 0. Bates, “a; Fort Mckinley, 0. West Virginia, IA; West Virginia Wesleyan, o. Univetsity of Vermont, 10; st. Law renee University, Z. Drake, 81; Penn College, 0. University Of Virginia, 20: William and Mary, 0. Maryland State. “a; Randolph Macon,

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Harvard leads 40–⁠16–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 52 since this game.