Temple at Holy Cross

Saturday, November 22, 1952

Holy Cross beat Temple 28–⁠0. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Holy Cross led the series 11–⁠5–⁠2.

AwayTemple2–⁠7–⁠1 in 1952
0
HomeHoly Cross8–⁠2 in 1952
28

FinalHigh 49°F, low 43°F, 1.94 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: BowI-Minded Holy Cross Blasts Temple as tettinqer So1rkles

    Evening star, November 23, 1952, page 63

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    BowI-Minded Holy Cross Blasts Temple as tettinqer So1rkles perry ball, the rugged quarterback totaled 1O1 aerial yards, all in the opening half before the going became too sloppy. Hettinger’s first toucnoown. on the long pass from Maloy, came with two minutes left in the first quarter. Maloy, after fumbling the soggy ball on the pass from center, scooped it up and threw ’38 yards. The speedy sophomore halfback took the throw on the Temple 20 an, aided by Joe Harrington’s block on the 10, sped for the tally. He added two more on slams of 3 and p yards in the next period to cap drives of 33 and IS yards. Gerry O’Leary scored for Holy Cross in the final period on a g. yard tackle slant and Tony Parisi, who booted four straight CONVEX sions despite the muddy field, COM pleted the scoring. Temple @ O Holy Cross IA 7–⁠2S Holy Cross scoring: Touchdowns--Hetfinger CD. o’Leary. Conversions-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.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Holy Cross 86% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Holy Cross leads 12–⁠9–⁠2 in 23 meetings, counting the five since this game.

Recent meetings
1974Temple 56, Holy Cross 0
1973Temple 63, Holy Cross 34
1972Temple 15, Holy Cross 7
1970Temple 23, Holy Cross 13
1955Holy Cross 42, Temple 7
1952Holy Cross 28, Temple 0

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