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1913 Holy Cross football team

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.

1913 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–6
Head coach
CaptainWilfred Metivier
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1912
1914 →
1913 Eastern college football independents records
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
Temple   –   1 – 3 – 2
Penn State   –   2 – 6 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   2 – 6 – 0
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 8 – 0

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 edit

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 24 Norwich
W 28–0 [2]
September 27 at Yale
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
L 7–47 [7]
November 1 at Princeton
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 22 at Georgetown
L 7–16 [11]

References edit

  1. ^ "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "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.
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