Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Cross simply was not the team it once...
Perhaps Wiley, who had to live in Lockbaum's golden shadow the past two years, is striving too hard to become Holy Cross' next hero...
Despite its come-from-the-clouds victory, the 1988 Holy Cross football team is far from divine. It's not just that Crusader savior Gordie Lockbaum, the two-position player and Heisman Trophy finalist, graduated. Even Lockbaum probably could not have stopped the Cross' fall from grace. In its first game of the year, the Crusaders fell to Army...
...that game as we did was a real emotional lift," Holy Cross Coach Mark Duffner said. "It was a hard-fought game. It was a see-saw battle...
Losing to Army, a Division I school, was not a surprise. Army's Wishbone offense wore down the Cross defense. But losing to Lafayette, like Holy Cross, a Colonial league team, was a shock. It was the first sign that God had turned his face away from the Cross' fortunes...