1909 Holy Cross football team

1909 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		10	–	0	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	0	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		9	–	1	–	0
Harvard		–		9	–	1	–	0
Penn State		–		5	–	0	–	2
Washington & Jefferson		–		8	–	1	–	1
Springfield Training School		–		5	–	1	–	0
NYU		–		6	–	1	–	1
Ursinus		–		6	–	1	–	1
Penn		–		7	–	1	–	2
Trinity (CT)		–		6	–	1	–	2
Dartmouth		–		5	–	1	–	2
Fordham		–		5	–	1	–	2
Princeton		–		6	–	2	–	1
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle		–		8	–	3	–	1
Colgate		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		7	–	3	–	1
Geneva		–		4	–	2	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	1
Vermont		–		4	–	2	–	2
Lehigh		–		4	–	3	–	2
Army		–		3	–	2	–	0
Villanova		–		3	–	2	–	0
Dickinson		–		4	–	4	–	1
Syracuse		–		4	–	5	–	1
Bucknell		–		3	–	4	–	2
Boston College		–		3	–	4	–	1
Cornell		–		3	–	4	–	1
Rhode Island State		–		3	–	4	–	0
Rutgers		–		3	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan		–		3	–	5	–	1
Holy Cross		–		2	–	4	–	2
Swarthmore		–		2	–	5	–	0
Drexel		–		1	–	5	–	3
Tufts		–		2	–	6	–	0
Amherst		–		1	–	6	–	1
Temple		–		0	–	4	–	1

The 1909 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1909 college football season.

In its third year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 2–4–2 record. Edward F. Sweeney was the team captain.^[1]

Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25	Norwich	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 18–0		^[2]
October 2	New Hampshire	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 13–0		^[3]
October 6	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–12	3,000	^[4]
October 16	Trinity (CT)	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 5–5		^[5]
October 23	Bowdoin	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–5		^[6]
October 30	at Dartmouth	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	L 0–12		^[7]
November 13	Worcester Tech	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 0–0		^[1]
November 20	at Fordham	American League Park New York, NY (rivalry)	L 5–9	4,000	^[8]

^ ^a ^b "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
^ "Holy Cross Beats Norwich". The Barre Daily Times. Barre, Vt. September 27, 1909. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Holy Cross 13, N.H.S.C. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 3, 1909. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale by 12 to 0". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Mass. October 7, 1909. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Holy Cross Equals Trinity's Score". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 17, 1909. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Bowdoin 5, Holy Cross 0". The Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine. October 25, 1909. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Dartmouth Good in Spots". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 31, 1909. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fordham Beats Holy Cross". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, N.Y. November 21, 1909. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.

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