1913 Holy Cross football team

1913 Holy Cross football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–6
Head coach	Harry von Kersburg (1st season)
Captain	Wilfred Metivier
Home stadium	Fitton Field

1913 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					10	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	0	–	1
Army			–					8	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					5	–	2	–	3
Rutgers			–					6	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	4	–	1
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	3	–	2
Geneva			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	0
Duquesne			–					3	–	5	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	4	–	1
Holy Cross			–					3	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	3	–	2
Penn State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	8	–	0

The 1913 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1913 college football season.

In its first and only year under head coach Harry von Kersburg, the team compiled a 3–6 record. Wilfred Metivier was the team captain.^[1]

The season began with a tragedy, as Vernon S. Belyea, a junior halfback at Norwich University, was paralyzed while running back a Holy Cross punt at Fitton Field, and later died. Belyea suffered a fractured sixth vertebra after being tackled by Holy Cross' captain, Metivier.^[2] Belyea was taken to Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, where he died the following day.^[3]

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

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 24	Norwich	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 28–0	[2]
September 27	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–7	[4]
October 4	Massachusetts	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 0–6	[5]
October 11	Boston College	Fitton Field Worcester, MA (rivalry)	W 13–0	[6]
October 18	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	L 7–47	[7]
November 1	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–54	[8]
November 8	at Springfield YMCA	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 13–25	[9]
November 15	Fordham	Fitton Field Worcester, MA (rivalry)	W 60–0	[10]
November 27	at Georgetown	Georgetown Field Washington, DC	L 7–16	[11]

References

1. "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
2. "Holy Cross Winner". Fall River Daily Globe. Fall River, Mass. September 25, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Halfback Belyea Died of Broken Spine". The Barre Daily Times. Barre, Vt. September 26, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Holy Cross Scares Yale". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pa. September 28, 1913. Sporting sect., p 1 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Holy Cross Beaten". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 5, 1913. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Holy Cross Victory". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 12, 1913. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Harvard's Game, 47-7; Holy Cross Is Well Beaten". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. October 19, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Tigers' New Plays Beat Holy Cross". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 2, 1913. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Forward Passes Clever". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 9, 1913. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Fordham Trounced, 60-0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 16, 1913. p. S2 – via Newspapers.com.
11. Peet, William (November 28, 1913). "Holy Cross Vanquished by Georgetown, 16 to 7". The Washington Herald. Washington, D.C. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.