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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity football team won its first game of the 1949 season yesterday by coming from behind in the second half to defeat Holy, Cross, 22 to 14, before 19,000 Stadium eye-witnesses...
Both clubs desperately needed a win. It served as a tremendous shot in the arm to the Harvards, even though their performance against an inferior football team was nowhere near perfection. As for Holy Cross' dentist-coach Bill Osmanski, he must keep trying to produce what Art Valpey has just achieved--a first victory...
Holy Cross did not work out here yesterday, the usual visiting team procedure. Most of the Crusaders are quite familiar with the Stadium and the squad will drive over from Worcester shortly before game time...
...backfield, it is fairly light for a Crusader team but being all-sophomore its consequent inexperience has been the source of many of Osmanski's troubles. Fumbles and penalties, among other errors of omission and commission, have hurt Holy Cross to the extent of five straight losses...
Osmanski, after much experimenting early in the fall, chose to string along with a batch of sophomores up from an excellent freshman team. However, the second-year men (there will be approximately six of them in the starting lineup) have failed to live up to expectations, although their mistakes appear to have become less conspicuous each week...