Holy Cross vs. Marquette

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Holy Cross’s biggest win1956: Holy Cross 41, Marquette 0by 41 points
2. Marquette’s biggest win1959: Marquette 30, Holy Cross 12by 18 points
3. Upset1959: Marquette 30, Holy Cross 12Marquette had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Holy Cross’s side (O’Donnell 1–⁠1–⁠1 against Murray). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

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  1950 · Evening star, Nov 12, 1950

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  1953 · Evening star, Nov 15, 1953

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  1956 · Evening star, Nov 19, 1956

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Holy Cross vs. Colgate67 meetings, Holy Cross 30–⁠32–⁠5
• Holy Cross vs. Dartmouth60 meetings, Holy Cross 25–⁠31–⁠4
• Holy Cross vs. Harvard57 meetings, Holy Cross 16–⁠40–⁠1
• Holy Cross vs. Boston College55 meetings, Holy Cross 19–⁠36
• Marquette vs. Wisconsin36 meetings, Marquette 4–⁠32
• Marquette vs. Detroit Mercy25 meetings, Marquette 10–⁠12–⁠3
• Marquette vs. Michigan State21 meetings, Marquette 5–⁠15–⁠1
• Marquette vs. Kansas State13 meetings, Marquette 7–⁠6