Holy Cross at Harvard

Saturday, September 29, 1951

Holy Cross beat Harvard 33–⁠6. It was their 26th meeting; after it, Harvard led the series 17–⁠8–⁠1.

AwayHoly Cross8–⁠2 in 1951
33
HomeHarvard3–⁠5–⁠1 in 1951
6

FinalHigh 66°F, low 42°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Speedy Holy Cross Rolls Up .33-to-6 Score Over Harvard

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 30, 1951, page 43

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    Speedy Holy Cross Rolls Up .33-to-6 Score Over Harvard touchdown in two minutes, 40 Sec ondS of the opening quarter. rush. ing from the three. Harvard’s lone touchdown came in 11:14 of the first period on a pass from Captain Carroll Lowenstein to Halfback John Tulenko. Crusaders Make Scores. Holy Cross pushed over three quick touchdowns in the second quarter. Massucco carried over from the two on the second play. And John Fetch made the first Of his three conversions. Maloy then opened up his pass ing attack and hit Mccain sew eral times until the visitors reached the Harvard 16. Bob Doyle, big Holy Cross fullback, then plowed his way for a score. A Maloy to Mccain pass with only eight minutes of the second quarter gone was good for another score. The half ended with Holy Cross leading IT’S and the score stayed that way until the last minute of play when Paul Gallo. left half back. plunged over from the three-yard line after brushing of a swarm of red-jerseyed tacklers,

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 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Harvard leads 40–⁠16–⁠1 in 57 meetings, counting the 31 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Harvard 30, Holy Cross 7
2025Harvard 59, Holy Cross 24
2024Harvard 35, Holy Cross 34
2023Harvard 38, Holy Cross 28
2022Holy Cross 30, Harvard 21
2021Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13

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