The College of the Holy Cross: America's
Highest Ranked Catholic Liberal Arts College*
*Based on the Rankings of the U.S. News and
World Report
Link to Rankings
Ranked #8 Best Value of all colleges and
universities in the US by Kiplinger Magazine:
Link to Rankings
Top 10 Most Beautiful Campus in the United
States:
Princeton Review Link
National Champions
Holy Cross has National Championships in Basketball, Baseball
And Football
1947 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions
1954 NIT Champions
1952 NCAA Baseball Champions
HC Head Coach John Barry
HC's top three hurlers at Omaha: Ronnie Perry, Jim O'Neill
and Dick Bogdan
The 1952 NCAA Men's Division I College World Series (CWS) involved 8
schools playing in double-elimination play to determine the national
champion of men's NCAA Division I college baseball. It began on June 12, and
ended with the championship game on June 17. A total of 15 games were played
at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.
The tournament participants were selected by the NCAA baseball committee,
with one team coming from each of the eight NCAA districts.
The College of the Holy Cross won the national championship with an 8-4
victory over the University of Missouri in front of 6,914 fans.
Senior pitcher Jim O'Neill of Holy Cross was named the CWS Most Outstanding
Player.
1987 NCAA 1-AA Football National Champions*
1987 Final NCAA football Poll:
1. Holy Cross
2. Appalachian St.
3. La.-Monroe
4. UNI
5. Idaho
6. Ga. Southern
7. Eastern Ky.
8. James Madison
9. Jackson St.
10. Weber St.
11. Western Ky.
12. Arkansas St.
13. Maine
14. Marshall
15. Youngstown St.
16. North Texas
17. Richmond
18. Howard
19. Sam Houston St.
20. Delaware St.
*The Patriot League did not allow its members to
participate in the 1AA playoffs during its early years so the Crusaders were
prevented from their inevitable triumph in the playoffs. However, it was
clear to most that Holy Cross was the best 1AA football team in the Nation
in 1987. They finished first in the National polls; the Sporting News
declared them National Champions, Head Coach Mark Duffner was named the
Eddie Robinson Award National Coach of the Year and Holy Cross dominated
every team they played:
Army
34-24
Lafayette
40-11
Lehigh
63-6
Colgate
49-7
Dartmouth
62-23
Bucknell
48-10
Brown
41-0
Massachusetts 54-10
Harvard
41-6
William & Mary
40-7
Villanova
39-6
(Nationally Televised Thursday Night Football ESPN)
Question:
How many colleges have won the national championship in
basketball and baseball, and played in a major football bowl game (e.g.
Orange, Sugar, Cotton, & Rose)?
Answer:
Michigan NIT:1984,1997,2004 / NCAA Basketball:1989 /
NCAA Baseball:1953, 1962 / Rose: & others
Ohio State – NIT: 1986 / NCAA Basketball: 1960 / NCAA Baseball: 1966/
Rose & others
Stanford – NIT:1991 / NCAA Basketball:1942 / NCAA Baseball:1987, 1988
/ Rose & others
California – NIT:1999 / NCAA Basketball: 1959 / NCAA Baseball:1947,
1957 / Rose & others
Arizona:
1980 Baseball, 1997 basketball, 1994 Fiesta
Oklahoma State:
1959 Baseball, 1945-46 basketball, 2003 Cotton
And of course ...
Holy Cross – NIT:1954 / NCAA Basketball:1947 / NCAA Baseball:1952 /
Orange:1946
Congratulations to the Women's Basketball Team for making the
Patriot League Final!
Holy Cross' Alyssa May hits a
layup early in the second half despite pressure from Bucknell's Kesha
Champion.
(ED COLLIER Photo from Worcester T&G)
Ceremony to honor the first recipient of the Purple Crested
Blazer
Non Alumni Dave is the first winner of the Purple Crested Blazer Award
for his many contributions to CROSSPORTS including his recent joining of the
Perry Millenium Club, his vocal support and his traditional, annual "Twas
the Night Before Christmas Holy Cross style." Here he is
wearing the hallowed jacket prior to the recent Men's basketball game versus
Bucknell. Here he is with Bob C. who generously donated the jacket.
Here NAD is being presented with the Blazer by Bob C. Of course, the
ever popular Mr. George Kennedy, a big CROSSPORTS fan, took part in
the ceremony. Here Mr. Kennedy is escorted by his host: Ray.
Dave was honored to receiver the award terming it "A tradition like no
other!"
Holy Cross Men's and
Women's Basketball Land Top Recruits
Meredith Ward & Mary Grace Jay
R. J Evans & Devan Brown
Read about Meredith, Mary Grace, R.J.
and Devan on the
Women's and Men's Basketball Pages of CROSSPORTS
FOOTBALL FINISHES AT 7-4!
Hornet Mom Photo
FUMBLE! Holy Cross
Ball!!
ATTENTION: Mrs.
CROSSPORTS (also know as Hornet Mom, unofficial photographer of
Mansfield (MA) High School Football: Brett McDermott's High School) is in
the process of posting over 200 Photos of the Georgetown Game on the
Kodak Site. Here is a link:
Hornet Mom Photos
ALSO: FOOTBALL PAGE HAS
BEEN UPDATED
Annie Sends her best from
Duke
Annie Hussey, our former basketball
columnist has matriculated to Dominican in River
Forrest, Illinois where she is a manager of the Women's basketball Team.
Her travels with the team last January brought her to Duke where she posed
for this photo at the Heart of Blue Devel's nation and was kind enough to
share it with us.
Congratulations to the
2007 Patriot League Basketball Champions:
Men
Beat Bucknell 74-66 in Thriller to Capture the Crown
Keith Simmons
makes cover of ESPN Magazine
Excerpt from the article:
9 Great Guys You Probably Don't Know Much About (Yet)
Keith Simmons, Holy Cross: Simmons, the Patriot League Player of the Year,
is an athletic swingman who can score from the perimeter or with his back to
the basket (17.3 ppg). He and his fellow seniors had lost to Bucknell in the
Patriot League championship game the previous two seasons, so Simmons will
be gunning to make a statement against Southern Illinois in his one and only
trip to the Big Dance.
Meanwhile. . .
Underdog Women Come
though in the end!
The Holy Cross women's basketball team Beat American 56-48 to Capture the
Patriot League Championship and has received the No. 16 seed in the
Greensboro Regional of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. The Crusaders will play a
first round game against No. 1 seed Duke in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday, March
18. The Holy Cross-Duke contest is scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. tip-off.
New: CROSSPORTS T-Shirts
Sader Fan, modeling his new CROSSPORTS T-Shirt, is ready for the
Football season to start.
Each Shirt is custom embroidered. You can choose to use your name,
posting name, favorite Crusader's name or team number. You can also
choose the sport: Football (as shown above), Basketball, Soccer,
Lacrosse, etc. Shirt colors include gray (as shown above) or royal
purple with white lettering. We have a variety of sizes.
Each Shirt is $20 (plus shipping and handling).
Click here to order
Interviews with:
Read Bill Cambria's latest interview
with
HC Athletic Director Dick Regan:
Link to Regan Interview
Tom Gilmore: Head Football
Coach: Link to
interview
Wally Carew (author of "A Farewell to
Glory," the history of the Holy Cross-Boston College Football rivalry):
Link to interview
Ralph Willard:
Link to interview
Check out all Past interviews on our
12 Essential Questions Page
Link to Fan Photo
Page
Holy Cross Equestrian
Team Schedule posted. See
Link
Back-up Message Board
Voy.com, the service we use for our message board, has had some
problems and is intermittently down. CROSSPORTS has developed a BACK
UP BOARD so that we can stay in touch during down times
LINK TO BACK UP BOARD. Please use the main board but, if its down,
click on this link.
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