New Britain herald., 1925-10-19
HOLY CROSS BEATS
HARVARD ON GRID
Light and Speedy Team Shakes
OH Jiny and ReYelS in Victory

Cambridge, Oct. ia light and
speedy Holy Cross eleven made It's
fifth and perhaps last pilgrimage to
the Harvard stadium last Saturday,
managed for the first time TO elude
the jiny which has heretofore
thwartcd its efforts, and slipped
over a 7 10 G win on the best GRIM
son squad in recent years.
Alumni and close followers OF
Worcester's crack purple outfit see
in the victory the last appearance
OF Holy Cross on a Harvard sched-
ule. II has been freely predicted
both in Boston and Worcester for
the past two or three years that
Harvard was about ready 10 drop
Holy Cross, chiefly because the pur-
pie never appeared anxious to &C.
cupy the position OF early season
try-outs, but seemed on the contrary
rather too willing to make Harvard
a mid-scason objective.
Previous TO Saturdays game 1t
was whispered about that next
years Harvard schedule would lind
Dartmouth occupying its present
position with an easy game before
and after, this Of course necessitat-
ing the removal Of the Holy Cross
threat from the list. In other words,
Harvard schedule makers have de-
cided to give Dartmouth preference
over the purple.
The talk, however, Is not occa-
sioning any adverse criticism on the
part of Holy Cross followers as the
purple has In the short span OF sew
en- years grown from an annual
pushover to a leading figure in east
ern football circles. And then, Holy
Cross has something bigger to look
forward to, an annual classic WITH
Notre Dame. And this Is not hg-
ment of the inauguration.
Last spring, when the president OF
Holy Cross went to Boston TO get
permission TO sink piers in the
blackstone river at Worcester as a
foundation for the puppies
new apacity stadium ne
said In answer to a question put dl-
rectly to him that Holy Cross and
Notre Dame would play in 1925 ana
years thereafter. Alumni Of both In
stitutions are known to favor such
a clash and with Notre Dame and
Boston college games as a nucleus
Holy Cross will have no trouble III
arranging its annual schedule.
As for the game Saturday, IN
spite of the word upset used by
so many Sunday papers in connec-
ton with the result, Holy cross
players and followers never for a
moment considered the possibility OF
q Harvard win. This was borne ont
between halves. when Captain Crow
Icy, the best player on the field Sat-
urlay, sent the following crisp mes
sage to the Holy Cross rooters;
keep on fighting and Harvard
can't score" And they didn't.
Another pleasing aspect Of the
game from u Holy Cross standpoint
was the line play of the team, SO
far this season suspected as being
hut a collection of brilliant backs
with lust seven men in the rushllnc
Saturday the work Of the purple
lTJ line was a revelation. Early II
the game it looked as If the huS'
crimson forward wall would nave
an easy time battering the purple'
into submission and here and there
= first down was made. But as tn
came progressed the Worcester line
found itself and in the second hal
smpared play after play by the sim
pie process of swarming over "h
der and through the Harvard ram
parts.
Both scores were spcctacu'a
ricces of work, and for the hrs
limo in five years OF playing lad
luck smiled on tho purple and IN
; ono-point margin Of victory was III
result. Harvard fought furious I
+ the bitter end, and when the ma
whistle blew and the half-mad Hol
Cross cohorts took possession or IN
! rridiron for their victory march IN
. Harvard band and thousands {
rooters sat in a dazed silence unit
. long after the parade was owe
r Then. in little groups, they made &c
the exits, feeling, no doubt IN
u grave things portending next wetI
+ v hen Dartmouth, the mighty lndia
from tho north, visits the stadium