1913 Holy Cross football team

1913 Holy Cross football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–6
Head coach
CaptainWilfred Metivier
Home stadiumFitton Field
Seasons
← 1912
1914 →
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Carlisle     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 0 1
Army     8 1 0
Dartmouth     7 1 0
Tufts     7 1 0
Colgate     6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 3
Rutgers     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 1
Villanova     4 2 1
Lehigh     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     5 4 1
Boston College     4 3 1
Syracuse     6 4 0
Fordham     3 3 2
Geneva     4 4 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Brown     4 5 0
Duquesne     3 5 1
Carnegie Tech     2 4 1
Holy Cross     3 6 0
Temple     1 3 2
Penn State     2 6 0
Rhode Island State     2 6 0
Vermont     1 5 0
NYU     0 8 0

The 1913 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1913 college football season.

In its first and only year under head coach Harry von Kersburg, the team compiled a 3–6 record. Wilfred Metivier was the team captain.[1]

The season began with a tragedy, as Vernon S. Belyea, a junior halfback at Norwich University, was paralyzed while running back a Holy Cross punt at Fitton Field, and later died. Belyea suffered a fractured sixth vertebra after being tackled by Holy Cross' captain, Metivier.[2] Belyea was taken to Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, where he died the following day.[3]

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

  1. ^ "2019 Holy Cross Football Fact Book" (PDF). Worcester, Mass.: College of the Holy Cross. p. 118. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Norwich was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Halfback Belyea Died of Broken Spine". The Barre Daily Times. Barre, Vt. September 26, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.