Holy Cross at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 7, 1945, page 23

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  NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. g. Big Stan Koslowski, who as q kid hoped someday to grow up to be another galloping ghost like Red Grange, his idol, ran and passed his Holy Cross footballers to 21–⁠0 tri- umph over Yale in the bowl today. He proved q phantom to the Blue, and would have brought smiles from the old master of Legerdemain him. self had he been on the scene. Koslowski, who even wore Jersey number n, famed by Grange, played a prominent part in every one of the crusader scores as Yale dropped its first game since the end of the 1s43 campaign, and suffered its first shutout in 26 contests. Tha blond Koslowski, aided by solid line play, and fine blocking and pitching by Veto Kissell and running of Joe Byers, outsmarted and outfought the Ellis as some rs 900 fans-a big crowd considering a steady rain fall until just before game time-looked on in amazement at the Holy Cross power and Yale’s inability to cope with it. Eight fumbles by the losers, six of which they lost, didn’t help the Ellis cause at all. After taking Yale’s toughest blows, most of the first period in which the Blue threatened seriously on two occasions. the Purple found

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Yale leads 22–⁠7 in 29 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.