1919 Holy Cross football team

The 1919 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1919 college football season. In its first season under head coach Cleo A. O'Donnell, the team compiled a 5–3 record.^[1] The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1919 Holy Cross football
1919 Holy Cross backfield: Connors, Flynn, Gagnon and Kennedy
Conference	Independent
Record	5–3
Head coach	Cleo A. O'Donnell (1st season)
Home stadium	Fitton Field
Seasons ← 1918 1920 →

1919 Eastern college football independents records

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

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 4		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–9	[2]
October 11		Bowdoin	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 14–0	[3]
October 18		at Springfield	Pratt Field Springfield, MA	W 7–0	[4]
October 25		Connecticut	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 69–0	[5]
November 1		Rhode Island State	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 29–3	[6]
November 8		Colby	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 41–0	[7]
November 15	2:00 p.m.	vs. Boston College	Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 7–9	[8]
November 27		at Detroit	Navin Field Detroit, MI	L 7–21	[9]
All times are in Eastern time