1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

The 1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football team represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 1936 college football season.^[1] The Crusaders were led by fourth-year head coach Eddie Anderson and played their home games at Fitton Field on campus in Worcester, Massachusetts. The team competed as a football independent. Holy Cross started the year on a five game winning streak, which helped land them a spot in the first ever AP Poll, released on October 19, 1936, being ranked 17th in that poll. Losses to Temple and rival Boston College and a tie to Saint Anselm knocked the Crusaders out of the polls by the end of the year. The team finished with an overall record of 7–2–1.

1936 Holy Cross Crusaders football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2–1
Head coach	Eddie Anderson (4th season)
Home stadium	Fitton Field
Seasons ← 1935 1937 →

1936 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Middlebury			–					8	–	0	–	0
Saint Anselm			–					6	–	0	–	1
No. 3 Pittsburgh			–					8	–	1	–	1
No. 10 Penn			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Yale			–					7	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Dartmouth			–					7	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					7	–	1	–	1
No. 14 Duquesne			–					8	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	1	–	2
Boston University			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 15 Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	2
Holy Cross			–					7	–	2	–	1
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					6	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					6	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					6	–	3	–	2
La Salle			–					6	–	3	–	1
Buffalo			–					5	–	3	–	0
Columbia			–					5	–	3	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	2	–	2
Saint Vincent			–					5	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	3	–	1
Manhattan			–					6	–	4	–	0
Northeastern			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
CCNY			–					4	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	1
Harvard			–					3	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	5	–	0
Westminster (PA)			–					2	–	4	–	1
Brown			–					3	–	7	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	6	–	0
Providence			–					1	–	7	–	0
Syracuse			–					1	–	7	–	0
Vermont			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Bates		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 45–0
October 3	Providence		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 21–6	10,000	[2]
October 10	at Dartmouth		Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 7–0
October 17	Manhattan		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 13–7	10,000
October 24	Carnegie Tech	No. 17	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 7–0
October 31	at Temple	No. 13	Temple Stadium Philadelphia, PA	L 0–3
November 7	Colgate		Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 20–13
November 14	at Brown	No. 17	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 32–0
November 21	Saint Anselm	No. 17	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	T 0–0
November 28	at Boston College		Fenway Park Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 12–13	28,000
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

See also: 1936 college football rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked т = Tied with team above or below

	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	Final
AP	17	13T	—	17	17	—	—