1903 Holy Cross football team

The 1903 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Cavanaugh, the team compiled an 8–2 record. Tom Stankard was the team captain.^[1]

1903 Holy Cross football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–2
Head coach	Frank Cavanaugh (1st season)
Captain	Tom Stankard
Home stadium	Holy Cross Field
Seasons ← 1902 1904 →

1903 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	4	–	0
Dickinson			–					7	–	5	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Delaware			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	5	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

After years of playing home games at off-campus stadiums in Worcester, Massachusetts, Holy Cross opened its own football field in time for the start of the 1903 season. The new stadium, called simply Holy Cross Field by the press, was later named Fitton Field, and today serves as the college's baseball stadium.^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Massachusetts	Holy Cross Field Worcester, MA	W 6–0		[3]
October 3	at Dartmouth	Alumni Oval Hanover, NH	L 0–18		[4]
October 10	at Wesleyan	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	W 11–5		[5]
October 14	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 10–36	4,000	[6]
October 24	Tufts	Holy Cross Field Worcester, MA	W 6–5	1,000	[7]
October 31	Amherst	Holy Cross Field Worcester, MA	W 36–0	1,500	[8]
November 7	Springfield Training School	Holy Cross Field Worcester, MA	W 27–5	1,000	[9]
November 14	at Maine	Maplewood Field Bangor, ME	W 5–0	2,000	[10]
November 21	Worcester Polytechnic	Holy Cross Field Worcester, MA	W 41–0	2,500	[11]
November 26	at Tufts	Huntington Avenue Grounds Boston, MA	W 32–0	2,500	[12]