Colgate at Holy Cross

Saturday, November 2, 1940

Colgate beat Holy Cross 6–⁠0. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Holy Cross led the series 5–⁠3.

AwayColgate5–⁠3 in 1940
6
HomeHoly Cross4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1940
0

FinalHigh 54°F, low 34°F, 1.87 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, November 4, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Saturday, Nov ? l4) - Finals Oregon Fresh 0 - Washington Frosh 9. Oregon State 19-California 13 Washington State 26-Idaho 0 Stanford 20-UCLA IA Utah 2O-Colorado 13 Utah State 7-Brigham Young 12. Montana State T – Colorado Mines 21 Monaaa 0-Oregon 38. St. Mary’s 25-Portland 13 Santa Clara 27-University of San Francisco c Georgia Tech 7-Duke Al Temple 1O-Bucknell T Tulsa 7-Dstroit 0 Minnesota l3 - Northwestern l2 Baylor 12-Texas Christian fl Alabama 25-Kentucky 0 New York University 0-Miss- ouri 33 Mississippi 13-Vanderbilt T Louisiana State 0-TeneSsee 28 Purdue 2l-IoWa 6 Clemson 0-Tulane l3 Auburn l3-Georgia IA Illinois 6-Wisconsin 13 Notrs Dame Army 0 Navy 0-Pennsylvania 20 Colgate 6-Holy Cross 0 Dartmouth Observance 0 Brown 6 - Yale 2 Columbia 0-Cornell 27 Princeton 0-Harvard North Carolina 0-Fordham 14 Kansas State 0 - Michigan State l2 Boston College 25-Manhattan / 0. / Indiana 6-Ohio State 2l / Georgetown 28-SyracuSe

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Football

    Imperial Valley press, California, November 3, 1940, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Notre Dame7, Army 0. Colgate 6. Holy Cross 0. Penn 20, Navy 0. Muhlenberg 20, Gettysburgh 0. Bates 2, BoWdoin IL. Penn State IL. South Carolina 0 Dartmouth 26, Sewanee O. Boston College Is, Manhattan 0 Harvard 0, Princeton 0. Brown 6, Yale 2. Michigan State 80, Kansas State Georgetown %, Syracuse 6. Fordham IA, North Carolina o. Cornell 27, Columbia 0. Ohio State 81, Indiana 6. Duke Al, Georgia Tech 7. Tulsa 7, Detroit 0. Duquesne ID, Marquette 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 69% to win. Colgate pulled the upset.

Colgate leads 32–⁠30–⁠5 in 67 meetings, counting the 59 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Colgate 35, Holy Cross 10
2025Colgate 29, Holy Cross 28
2024Holy Cross 38, Colgate 7
2023Holy Cross 47, Colgate 7
2022Holy Cross 35, Colgate 10
2021Holy Cross 42, Colgate 10

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