1898 Holy Cross football team

The 1898 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent in the 1898 college football season.

1898 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–4–1
Head coach
  • Maurice Connor (1st season; games 2–10)
  • John Corbett (interim; first game)
CaptainM. J. McDonough
Home stadiumWorcester College Grounds, Worcester Oval
1898 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    11 0 0
Drexel    7 0 0
Princeton    11 0 1
Penn    12 1 0
Buffalo    8 1 0
Cornell    10 2 0
Swarthmore    9 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    9 2 0
Yale    9 2 0
Dickinson    8 2 0
Syracuse    8 2 1
Wesleyan    7 3 0
Western Penn.    5 2 1
Brown    6 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Penn State    6 4 0
Pittsburgh College    6 4 1
Army    3 2 1
Vermont    3 2 1
Holy Cross    5 4 1
Bucknell    4 4 3
Fordham    1 1 2
Frankin & Marshall    4 4 2
New Hampshire    4 4 0
Amherst    4 5 1
Villanova    2 4 1
Lehigh    3 6 1
Boston College    2 5 1
Colgate    2 5 1
Temple    2 5 0
Lafayette    3 8 0
NYU    1 3 0
Rutgers    1 6 1
Tufts    1 9 0
Geneva    0 6 1

In its first year under head coach Maurice Connor, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record. M. J. McDonough was the team captain. John Corbett served as interim head coach for the season's first game, a win.

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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