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.

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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Bates and Holy Cross, 1904 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story of the 1904 game: FOOTBALL. Exeter Defeats Bowdoin. Eleven to Nothing. Bates and Holy Cross Unable to Score. University Of Maine Defeats Brown, to 0.

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

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story of the 1936 game: U. S. FOOTBALL SCORES

    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, 1936Holy Cross 45, Bates 0at Holy Cross
Oct 1, 1904Bates 0, Holy Cross 0at Bates

Every game is listed as played on the field.