1917 Holy Cross football team

The 1917 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1917 college football season.

1917 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–4
Head coach
  • Luke Kelly (4th season)
CaptainRaymond Lynch
Home stadiumFitton Field
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pittsburgh    10 0 0
Williams    7 0 1
Yale    3 0 0
Princeton    2 0 0
Syracuse    8 1 1
Army    7 1 0
Rutgers    7 1 1
Penn    9 2 0
Brown    8 2 0
Fordham    7 2 0
Lehigh    7 2 0
Boston College    6 2 0
Swarthmore    6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    7 3 0
Colgate    4 2 0
Harvard    3 1 3
New Hampshire    3 2 2
Dartmouth    5 3 0
Geneva    5 3 1
Penn State    5 4 0
Buffalo    4 4 0
NYU    2 2 3
Tufts    3 3 0
Carnegie Tech    2 3 1
Bucknell    3 5 1
Lafayette    3 5 0
Holy Cross    3 4 0
Rhode Island State    2 4 2
Carlisle    3 6 0
Columbia    2 4 0
Delaware    2 5 0
Cornell    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 6 0
Villanova    0 3 2
Temple    0 6 1

The team compiled a 3–4 record in its fourth and final year under head coach Luke Kelly, who had stepped down after the 1916 season, but returned after his successor, Frank Cavanaugh, entered the United States Army. Raymond Lynch was the team captain for the second consecutive year.

Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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