1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

The 1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its first year under head coach Joe Sheeketski, the team compiled a 7–2 record.^[1]

1939 Holy Cross Crusaders football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2
Head coach	Joe Sheeketski (1st season)
Home stadium	Fitton Field
Seasons ← 1938 1940 →

1939 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 4 Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
No. 10 Duquesne			–					8	–	0	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	0	–	1
Scranton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
La Salle			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	1	–	2
No. 11 Boston College			–					9	–	2	–	0
No. 17 Fordham			–					6	–	2	–	0
Villanova			–					6	–	2	–	0
Boston University			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	1
Hofstra			–					4	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					5	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	4	–	0
Harvard			–					4	–	4	–	0
Manhattan			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					3	–	3	–	2
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	2
Tufts			–					3	–	4	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	4	–	1
Army			–					3	–	4	–	2
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	5	–	0
Providence			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	2
Massachusetts State			–					2	–	5	–	2
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	1
Temple			–					2	–	7	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	7	–	0
Buffalo			–					0	–	7	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Holy Cross was ranked at No. 11 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.^[2] It was ranked at No. 42 in the 1939 Williamson System ratings.^[3]

The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		Manhattan	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 28–0	20,000	[4][5]
October 7		LSU	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 7–26	25,000	[6]
October 14		at Georgia	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	W 13–0	15,000	[7]
October 21	2:00 p.m.	Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	W 20–0	18,000	[8][9]
October 28		Colgate	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 27–7	15,000	[10]
November 4		Providence	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 46–0	10,000	[11]
November 11		Temple	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 14–0	15,000	[12]
November 18		Carnegie Tech	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	W 21–0	30,000	[13]
December 2		vs. Boston College	Fenway Park Boston, MA	L 0–14	40,000	[14]
All times are in Eastern time