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Holy Cross at Harvard

Saturday, October 21, 1933

Holy Cross beat Harvard 10–⁠7. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 13–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayHoly Cross2–⁠1 in 1933
10
HomeHarvard5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1933
7

FinalHigh 55°F, low 38°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: BALL. RESUIIS&

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 23, 1933, page 5 (results column)

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    BALL. RESUIIS& The following are final scores of football games played in var ious parts of the states last Sat- urday afternoon Washington University IA; Pu- get Sound College 6. Washington State 6; California 6. Oregon State 0; Southern Cali fornia 0. Stanford 20; San Francisco 13. Loyola ‘; UCLA 20. Montana State 0; Montana 32. Army 6; Illinois 0. Michigan IS; Ohio State 0. Notre Dame 0; Carnegie Tech ‘. Columbia o; Princeton 20 Brown 6; Yale IA. Holy Cross 10; Harvard 7. Dartmouth IA; Penn Syracuse IA; Cornell ‘. Virginia T; Navy l3 Colgate T; Pittsburgh 3. Purdue IA; Chicago 0. Indiana 0: Northwestern 25. Nebraska g; Kansas State 0. Wisconsin T; Iowa 26. Tulane ‘; Georgie Tech 0. North Carolina 0; Florida 9. Alabama 12; Tennessee 6.

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)

Harvard 61% to win. Holy Cross won as Elo’s underdog.

The series

Every Holy Cross–Harvard game

Harvard leads 40–⁠16–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Harvard 30, Holy Cross 7
2025Harvard 59, Holy Cross 24
2024Harvard 35, Holy Cross 34
2023Harvard 38, Holy Cross 28
2022Holy Cross 30, Harvard 21
2021Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13

Around this game

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