2017 Football Schedule Released

First game ever versus Navy----hard to believe we never have played the Midshipmen. Yes, Nate is doing a fantastic job.

Nice photo of Yankee Stadium configured for football

Navy 2019 schedule, so far. Never thought I'd see this. Three cheers for the HC admin for ignoring the anti-schollie noise to save the program from oblivion.

09/07 - Holy Cross
10/05 - Air Force
11/16 - at Notre Dame
12/14 - Army (location, TBD)

I'll take Navy over Army everyday.

EXCELLENT work!

Thank you ADNP!

A recent email says that we are playing Yale, five consecutive years, from '17-'21, alternating home fields with them getting three

Let's walk before we run hoops and not look a gift horse in the mouth. Also Navy is a significantly better team than Army, a much more attractive match-up, and ambiance in Annapolis - one of the best towns in America, is terrific as well.

I don't know the specifics of the conversations between all the parties involved but this is very similar to the Lafayette-Lehigh setup for the 150th meeting at Yankee Stadium. In essence, Lafayette "gave up" a home game to make it happen, much like HC is "giving up" a home game here. The home-away rotations for PL play were set years ago and it's very possible all the schools agreed among themselves that if such opportunities like this arose, the league would not have to redo the football (or any) schedule to accommodate special situations.

IIRC, HC and Yale have a nine or ten game contract extending into the next decade.  Harvard series also extends into the next decade, and is also nine or ten games.  The breakthrough with Harvard came when HC agreed not to always schedule it as Harvard's first game, and HC's third or fourth.

The old board had links to the announcements, but again IIRC, these contracts happened in ADNP's first six months.

Kudos to ADNP and HCTG. The away games in general will be brutal......just sayin'

I don't know what the bigger mystery is in the history of Holy Cross football (1) the fact we've never played Navy, as we have noted above or (2) our lifetime record against Yale of 4-27 with 1 win in the 14 games we've played since 1985. We'll certainly correct #1 and I pray we can make some progress on # 2

As for #1, I remembah this was discussed a bit on the old board...I think one of the main reasons we nevah played Navy in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s anyway was that they were playing BC a lot then. The service academies like to spread their games around geographically and for whatevah reason, played our cousins in Newton for their "New England game." Not the only reason we didn't play Navy, but one of them. Glad this "not playing evah" is finally coming to an end. 

As for #2, this is an irritating legacy. The only school (in a series played 15 or so times) that approaches our futility against someone else is Syracuse (5-23). We were 0-9 against Penn St in the 50s and 60s. Part of our embarrassing record against the Eli can be rationalized away thusly: they dominated the series in the era of Waltahh Camp era (losing the 1st 11 games between these two fine institutions between 1903-1913),  nevah playing Yale much during either Eddie Anderson era (1 game a 14-13 loss in 1950) and then only playing sporadically against some of our bettah 1960s and onward teams (HC beat Yale in 1967 the only meeting that decade) and then we didn't play them much in the Carter/Duffner era. (Brutal losses in '81 and '85). And we  haven't played against them with a scholarship team since 1985.

Doesn't completely wash away the Yale futility, but it does helps me sleep bettah.