Colgate at Holy Cross

Saturday, November 8, 1952

No. 20 Holy Cross beat Colgate 13–⁠7. It was their 20th meeting; after it, Holy Cross led the series 12–⁠5–⁠3.

AwayColgate6–⁠3 in 1952
7
Home20Holy Cross8–⁠2 in 1952
13

FinalHigh 40°F, low 22°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Holy Cross Passes Defeat Colgate, 1871

    Evening star, November 9, 1952, page 64

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    Holy Cross Passes Defeat Colgate, 1871 WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. B. Charlie Maloy. one of the East’s outstanding passerS, clicked with two touchdown passes while start ing his third aerial mile during a short-lived second-period snow storm today to give Holy Cross q 1877 victory over Colgate. Although the Red Raiders boast q tight passing defense. Maloy was able to complete payoff tosses of 20 and IL yards to Lou Hetfinger and Bob Dee to give the Crusaders their sixth win in seven starts. The record is marred only by 20–⁠19 setback by Syracuse. Maloy. playing his 25th varsity game, started with total pass ing yardage of 3.472, and he clicked with 10 of 13 tries for another 119 yards. AS a result. he now has two miles II yards to his credit. Colgate was stif1ed by Maloy’s magic during the nrSt nall Dut the Red Raiders frightened the skimpy 10000 crowd with their furious second-half efforts. They made two deep thrusts during the third period and were checked thrice on Holy Cross Is in the fourth session. However with less than three minutes to go. Johnny Owens tossed a 49, yard touchdown pass to Gary Chandler for Colgate’s lone score Maloy’s 25-game passing totals include 269 competitions out OF 597 tries. only ~ of which hava been intercepted. His 1852 totals are SO out of 1876 for 1882 yards and II touchdownS. Scoring: Colgate. touchdown-Chandler Conversionn-Totten. Holy Cross, touch. downs-Hettinger. Dee. Convention Parisi.

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.

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Holy Cross 71% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Colgate leads 32–⁠30–⁠5 in 67 meetings, counting the 47 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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