Temple at Holy Cross

Saturday, November 5, 1938

No. 13 Holy Cross beat Temple 33–⁠0. It was their fourth meeting; after it, Temple led the series 2–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayTemple3–⁠6–⁠1 in 1938
0
Home13Holy Cross8–⁠1 in 1938
33

FinalHigh 71°F, low 45°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Holy Cross Crushes Temple, % 10 0, With Air Play CohiII Leads Crusader Drive, Passing Twice For 50-Yurd Coins

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 6, 1938, page 1

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    Holy Cross Crushes Temple, % 10 0, With Air Play CohiII Leads Crusader Drive, Passing Twice For 50-Yurd Coins WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. S. Their Wanted power stalemated by Temples fighting defenses today, the Holy Cross Crusaders hurried into the air and scared to smash ing 33to-0 victory over Pop War ner’s Owls on Ronnie Cahill’s perfeet passing before $4,000 fans. Cahill. brilliant little 155-pound halfback. pitched the Owls dizzy, his amazing third-period sharp shooting threw the Crusaders to three touchdowns in this wild-eyed session, completing seven out of nine passes-the first six in rapid succession-for total of ITO yards. Cahill losses for 50 Yards. Cahills first pass. monstrous 50-yard heave to Jack Reardon, set the stage for the opening score, produced by Capt. Bill Osmanski on a 5-yard sprint around his right end. Next he threw another equally long one to Reardon, who made the catch on the 20 and neatly tipped the ball backward to Henry Ouellette, who sped the remaining dis lance. Cahill then fired two passes for the next scoring drive, 35yarder to Jack Kelley and a IS yard toss into the end zone to Reardon. Jim Turner place-kicked the etxra points after each score, all the drives for which had been started by interruptions of Temple aerials just across midfleld, and all in 10 minutes. The Holy Cross regulars retired with the score 81 to 0 and Marty OBrien, a hometown sophomore and third-string halfback, took up where Cahill left off. O’Brien clips Strongly. OBTien passed IS yards to Joe Osmanski and then Is more to Raw Wise, a sixth string, 130-pound quarterback, for the fourth touch down in the final period. Next he tipped short one to Substitute End Bob OReilly for the final

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: football Results

    Imperial Valley press, California, November 6, 1938, page 1 (results column)

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    football Results Carnegie Tech 20, Pitt 10. Notre Dame Is, Navy 0. Lafayette 7, Penn State 0. Fordham 3, st. Mary’s 0. Yale 20, Brown IA. Rutgers 20, Princeton 10. Holy Cross 33. Temple 0. Manhattan 3, North Carolina State 0.

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 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Holy Cross leads 12–⁠9–⁠2 in 23 meetings, counting the 19 since this game.

Recent meetings
1974Temple 56, Holy Cross 0
1973Temple 63, Holy Cross 34
1972Temple 15, Holy Cross 7
1970Temple 23, Holy Cross 13
1955Holy Cross 42, Temple 7
1952Holy Cross 28, Temple 0

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