Word: cross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Holy Cross Report...
Jayvee coach Ben McCabe, who has been scouting the Crusaders and saw them bow to Yale, 14 to 7, last Saturday, reported that Holy Cross is a rapidly improving team which should be at its strongest of the season so far this Saturday. The Crusaders, like Harvard, suffered badly from injuries in their first game and have dropped five straight so far. But the injured men have now recovered, and McCabe believes that the Cross will be "coming up" for Saturday's contest...
Unlike previous years, when the Crusaders were known as a heavy, bull-like team whose greatest ground-gaining potential was through the center of the line, this year's Holy Cross squad is notable for a good passing attack run off by an all-sophomore backfield, according to McCabe...
Crimson fans who have become accustomed to seeing opponents take one squad off the field and send on another every time the ball changes hands will find that the Cross uses even less of a two-platoon system than Harvard. About two-thirds of the Holy Cross team goes both ways, as opposed to about half of the Harvard team...
Along with his intelligence report on the Crusaders, McCabe also had a few words to say about Yale. Apparently the Yale line can no longer be known as the "Seven Dwarfs," for the Eli front wall looked good against the Cross, whose line averages 208 pounds--program weights...