Holy Cross vs. Quantico Marines

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

1. Holy Cross’s biggest win1951: Holy Cross 39, Quantico Marines 14by 25 points
2. Quantico Marines’s biggest win1953: Quantico Marines 17, Holy Cross 0by 17 points
3. Upset1952: Quantico Marines 27, Holy Cross 18Quantico Marines had a 10% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1953: Quantico Marines 17, Holy Cross 0Quantico Marines had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1963: Quantico Marines 7, Holy Cross 6Quantico Marines had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

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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  1952 · Evening star, Nov 17, 1952

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
• Quantico Marines vs. Xavier12 meetings, Quantico Marines 4–⁠8