1912 Holy Cross football team

1912 Holy Cross football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–3–1
Head coach	Timothy F. Larkin (6th season)
Captain	Frederick V. Ostergren
Home stadium	Fitton Field

1912 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Maine			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent diring the 1912 college football season. In its sixth and final year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record. Frederick V. Ostergren was the team captain.^[1] Holy Cross played home games at Fitton Field on the college's campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. A new concrete grandstand was dedicated at the first home game, on October 12.^[2]

Holy Cross was scheduled to visit Army on November 2, but the game was canceled due to the funeral of United States Vice President James S. Sherman.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 28	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–7	2,000	[4]
October 5	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 0–19	7,000	[5]
October 12	Norwich	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–6		[2]
October 19	at Springfield YMCA	Pratt Field Springfield, MA	W 7–0		[6]
October 26	Massachusetts	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 6–6		[7]
November 2	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	Canceled		[3]
November 9	Vermont	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 13–0		[3]
November 16	Worcester Polytechnic	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 27–0		[8]
November 28	at Saint Louis	Sportsman's Park St. Louis, MO	W 24–15	8,000	[9]

References

1. "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
2. "Norwich Beats Holy Cross 6-0". The Barre Daily Times. Burlington, Vt. October 14, 1912. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Two Touchdowns by Holy Cross". Burlington Daily Free Press. Burlington, Vt. November 11, 1912. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Yale Finds Holy Cross Worthy Foe". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. September 29, 1912. Sporting section, p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Harvard Finds Holy Cross Easy". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 6, 1912. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Blunder Costs a Game". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 20, 1912. sect. 2, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Miliken to the Rescue". The Sun. New York, N.Y. October 27, 1912. sect. 2, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Holy Cross 27, Wor P.I. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 17, 1912. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "St. Louis University Wages Strenuous Battle Against Holy Cross, but Is Returned Loser, with Score 24 to 15". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Mo. November 29, 1912. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.