Fort Totten at Holy Cross

Saturday, October 10, 1942

Holy Cross beat Fort Totten 60–⁠0. It was their only meeting on record.

AwayFort Totten0–⁠1 in 1942
0
HomeHoly Cross5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1942
60

FinalHigh 68°F, low 47°F

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Grids Weekend Roundup MIDWEST'S BIO THREE ARE HANDED DEFEATS

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 12, 1942, page 1 (results column)

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    Grids Weekend Roundup MIDWEST’S BIO THREE ARE HANDED DEFEATS Columbia 81: Colgate 81. Dart mouth 10; HOLY Cross 60. Fort Totten 0; Georgia Preflight School 26. Duke y; Tennessee “a. Dayton ID; Texas Christian 81, Kansas 6. JUST BARELY-Great Lakes got a touchdown in the last period to beat a surprisingly strong Pitts burgh eleven. TO. Offside penalty paved way for Harvard to score tying touchdown against William and Mary. Vanderbilt 7, Ken lucky 6. SPRINTS 100 YARDS LONG RuNS-Lyle Sturdy of Wichita returned a kickoff 100 yards for touchdown. John StrZykalski, Marquette, raced 80 yards as his team beat Iowa State. 43–⁠12. Don Hightower romped 81 for the Georgia Preflight School against Duke. Joe Magnatta. Wayne, in tercepted a pass and raced back 50 yards for teams only touch down against Michigan State. Ken Davis ran 90 yards for Cornell against Army with an intercepted pass. AERIAL DEFENSE-B ay o 7 intercepted seven passes to beat Arkansas. 20–⁠7. AERIAL ARTTST-Angelo Bertell. Notre Dame quarterback, threw 20 passes. He completed ID, four Of them for touchdowns. FROM HERO TO GOAT-BiI Daley. All-American back for Min nesota, scored on an S0-yard return of punt. Shortly afterward he failed to hold on to the bal and Alex Agase, Illinois guard. relieved him of il and raced 3S yards for touchdown. 1t was the first conference defeat for Minnesota since Nile kinnick and Company Of Iowa trimmed them, Is to 8 in 1899. SINK THE NAVY-Princetor did II when nobody expected them to. The brilliant play of Robert Perina. Tiger halfbaek, was the feature.

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 85% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Holy Cross leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

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