Holy Cross vs. Tufts
Holy Cross and Tufts first met in 1898 and have played 11 times; Holy Cross leads the series 8–3. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Holy Cross 7–3, and Holy Cross has won the last 5. Share
- Holy Cross wins
- 8
- Tufts wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1898
- Longest streak
- 5 Holy Cross
- Current streak
- 5 Holy Cross
- Last 10 meetings
- Holy Cross 7–3
- Most recent
- 1943
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.1 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Holy Cross
- 6–1 Holy Cross’s record at home
- At Tufts
- 2–2 Tufts’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 6
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Holy Cross’s biggest win1943: Holy Cross 41, Tufts 0by 41 points
- Tufts’s biggest win1900: Tufts 27, Holy Cross 0by 27 points
- Upset1899: Tufts 6, Holy Cross 0Tufts had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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

1901 · Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, Oct 22, 1901

1903 · Waterbury evening Democrat, Connecticut, Nov 27, 1903

1904 · The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], Oct 16, 1904
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
| Nov 20, 1943 | Holy Cross 41, Tufts 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 18, 1905 | Holy Cross 12, Tufts 2 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Oct 15, 1904 | Holy Cross 34, Tufts 0 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Nov 21, 1903 | Holy Cross 32, Tufts 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Oct 17, 1903 | Holy Cross 6, Tufts 5 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Nov 1, 1902 | Tufts 11, Holy Cross 5 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 23, 1901 | Holy Cross 17, Tufts 5 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Oct 19, 1901 | Holy Cross 12, Tufts 5 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Nov 24, 1900 | Tufts 27, Holy Cross 0 | at Tufts | ||
| Nov 18, 1899 | Tufts 6, Holy Cross 0 | at Holy Cross | ||
| Oct 29, 1898 | Holy Cross 12, Tufts 0 | at Holy Cross |
Every game is listed as played on the field.