Bates vs. Holy Cross
Bates and Holy Cross first met in 1904 and have played 2 times; Holy Cross leads the series 1–0–1. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Holy Cross 1–0. Share
- Bates wins
- 0
- Holy Cross wins
- 1
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1904
- Longest streak
- 1 Holy Cross
- Current streak
- 1 Holy Cross
- Last 10 meetings
- Holy Cross 1–0
- Most recent
- 1936
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers

1904 · Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., Oct 3, 1904

1936 · The Nome daily nugget, Alaska, Sep 28, 1936
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 26, 1936 | Holy Cross 45, Bates 0 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Oct 1, 1904 | Bates 0, Holy Cross 0 | at Bates |
Every game is listed as played on the field.