Holy Cross at Harvard
Saturday, October 12, 1935 Share
Holy Cross beat Harvard 13–0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 13–6–1.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 46°F
In the newspapers

The Nome daily nugget, October 14, 1935, page 7 (results column)
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Football Scores Indiana 0 Michigan ‘ Kansas 0 Michigan state AZ Drake ‘ Ohio State 85 w Virginia 6 Pittsburgh “A Williams 2 Princeton IA Purdue 20 Fordham 0 Cornell IA Syracuse 21 Yale 31 Pennsylvania 20 Holy Cross 13 Harvard 0 Carnegie Tech 6 New York 25 Minnesota 12 Nebraska 2 Notre Dame 27 Wisconsin 0 Cal 6 Oregon 0 UCLA 2 Stanford 6 Whitman 7 Idaho 0 Wash State 13 Montana 2 West Maryland 0 Penn state 2 Bucknell 0 Villanova 25 Louisiana state 3. Manhattan nothing Gettysburg 0 Army 54 Colgate 6 Iowa 12 Illinois 19 Southern Cal 0 Bates 2 Dartmouth 59 Marietta 0 Oberlin 2 Mississippi 20 Alabama 2 Florida 0 Tulane 19 Creighton 0 Rice Inst. IA College Pacific 0 St. Marys B Vanderbilt 3 Temple 3 Catholic U 6 Duquesne 0 Okla Aggies 0 Detroit 13 Kansas States 0 Marquette IA s Dakota 0 N Dakota 25 Missouri School Mines 0 St. Louis 38
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)
Holy Cross 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Holy Cross–Harvard gameHarvard leads 40–16–1 in 57 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.
| 2026 | Harvard 30, Holy Cross 7 | |
| 2025 | Harvard 59, Holy Cross 24 | |
| 2024 | Harvard 35, Holy Cross 34 | |
| 2023 | Harvard 38, Holy Cross 28 | |
| 2022 | Holy Cross 30, Harvard 21 | |
| 2021 | Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13 |
Around this game
Holy Cross
- Next gamevs. ColgateOct. 26, 1935
- SeasonHoly Cross in 1935
- ProgramHoly Cross history and records
Harvard
- Next gameat ArmyOct. 19, 1935
- SeasonHarvard in 1935
- ProgramHarvard history and records

