Colgate at Holy Cross

Saturday, October 30, 1943

Holy Cross beat Colgate 14–⁠7. It was their 11th meeting; after it, Holy Cross led the series 6–⁠3–⁠2.

AwayColgate5–⁠3–⁠1 in 1943
7
HomeHoly Cross6–⁠2 in 1943
14

FinalHigh 54°F, low 44°FAttendance 10,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Underdog Holy Cross Beats Colgate, l4-7

    The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., October 31, 1943, page 8

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    Underdog Holy Cross Beats Colgate, l4–⁠7 WORCESTER, Mass. Oct. 30 R,-Refreshed by weeks rest the Holy Cross Crusaders resumed their intercollegiate football cam paign by out-playing Colgate’s IA vored Red Raiders by wide margin while gaining a 14–⁠7 vic tory today before a 10000 crowd. The Raiders never were in the ball game until Fred Dreher, a backfield replacement, recovered a Sullivan tumble on Holy Cross IS about halfway through the fl male. That break gave Colgate its only scoring chance and Don Coates and Wingman Glenn Furey took full advantage of it. After Furey raced Is yards to Holy Cross three-yard line on an end. around sweep, Coates plunged for the Raiders lone touchdown. Stan Koslowski. who scored both of the Holy Cross touchdowns, made his first trip into the enemy end zone early in the second Pc Rod after taking a 15-yard pass from Dick Nolan.

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 57% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 32–⁠30–⁠5 in 67 meetings, counting the 56 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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