1897 Holy Cross football team

The 1897 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1897 college football season.

1897 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–3–1
Head coach
CaptainE. F. Shanahan
Home stadiumWorcester College Grounds, Worcester Oval
1897 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    15 0 0
Princeton    10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Yale    9 0 2
Buffalo    9 1 0
Harvard    10 1 1
Army    6 1 1
Vermont    3 0 2
Lafayette    9 2 1
Drexel    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Dickinson    7 3 2
Swarthmore    7 3 2
Fordham    2 1 1
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 1
Brown    7 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Boston College    4 3 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Bucknell    3 3 1
NYU    3 3 0
Temple    3 3 0
Trinity (CT)    4 4 1
Wesleyan    6 6 0
Tufts    6 7 0
Geneva    3 4 1
Pittsburgh College    3 5 2
Villanova    3 5 1
Penn State    3 6 0
Amherst    2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall    2 6 2
Lehigh    3 7 0
New Hampshire    2 5 0
Rutgers    2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 3 0

In its second and final year under head coach Alfred C. N. Petersen, the team compiled a 4–3–1 record. E. F. Shanahan was the team captain.

Holy Cross played its home games at two off-campus fields in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Worcester Oval and the Worcester College Grounds.

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