Holy Cross at Dartmouth
Saturday, October 10, 1931 Share
Dartmouth beat Holy Cross 14–7. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Dartmouth led the series 6–0.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 28°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1931, page 58
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DARTMOUTH LOSSES OFFSET 14–7 VICTORY Beats Holy Gross, but Four of Best Linenen, Including Yudicky, Seriously Hurt. HANOVER, N. H, October 10.-Dartmouth, using every one of its guns, today overcame its first major opposition, the hard fighting Holy Cross Crusaders, by lat score, but in so doing prob ably ruined its 1881 prospects, for four OF Its outstanding linemen were injured. The Greens dearly earned victory resuited from Bill McCall’s 88-yard run back OF the opening kickoff and Bill Mortons amazing aerial display in the second period, when he tossed four con- SecutlVe forwards, received a fifth pass for first down on Holy Cross one yard line and then smashed the Purple line for touchdown The clever Dart mouth quarterback also added the scoring touch to McCall’s sensational open ing run. The Purple score. made Immediately after Dartmouth broke the ice, followed capt. Phil OConnell’S 35-yard advance on lateral from Griffin Little Phil then whipped 15-yard pass to Tony Coluccl, his left end, and followed it with scoring heave to Right Halfback Martln Murray, who cut over in time 10 take Winger Jim Cavalieri’s part in the play. The Dartmouth casualties were Capt Stanley Yudicky, who made his first start OF the season in the second period; Mackey, the other regular end; Bill Hoffman, first string guard, and Henry Durgin, one of the starting tackles. It IS likely all four will be out of action for several weeks
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Dartmouth 72% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Holy Cross–Dartmouth gameDartmouth leads 31–25–4 in 60 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.
Around this game
Holy Cross
- Next gamevs. FordhamOct. 17, 1931
- SeasonHoly Cross in 1931
- ProgramHoly Cross history and records
Dartmouth
- Next gameat ColumbiaOct. 17, 1931
- SeasonDartmouth in 1931
- ProgramDartmouth history and records

