Holy Cross at Harvard

Saturday, October 12, 1935

Holy Cross beat Harvard 13–⁠0. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 13–⁠6–⁠1.

AwayHoly Cross3–⁠0 in 1935
13
HomeHarvard3–⁠5 in 1935
0

FinalHigh 69°F, low 46°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story: Football Scores

    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.

Harvard leads 40–⁠16–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 37 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

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