Holy Cross Historical Trivia

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<p>Holy Crossers in NFL</p>

<p>Adams, Bill (1972 - 1978)
Alberghini, Tom (1945 - 1945)
Barzilauskas, Fritz (1947 - 1951)
Bove, Pete (1930 - 1930)
Branon, Phil (1925 - 1925)
Brawley, Ed (1921 - 1921)
Brennan, Leo (1942 - 1942)
Britt, Eddie (1936 - 1938)
Buzyniski, Bernie (1960 - 1960)
Cahill, Ronnie (1943 - 1943)
Carton, Charlie (1925 - 1926)
Clancy, Stu (1930 - 1935)
Coleman, Ned (1926 - 1926)
Connor, George (1948 - 1955) HOF
Cosbie, Doug (1979 - 1988)
Cregar, Bill (1947 - 1948)
Dee, Bob (1957 - 1967)
Devlin, Mark (1920 - 1921)
Digris, Bernie (1943 - 1943)
Fenerty, Gill (1990 - 1991)
Finn, Bernie (1930 - 1932)
Fitzgerald, Jim (1930 - 1931)
Flaherty, Harry (1987 - 1987)
Garvey, Frank (1925 - 1926)
Gaziano, Frank (1944 - 1944)
Gildea, Denny (1926 - 1926)
Golembeski, Archie (1925 - 1929)
Greene, Tom (1960 - 1961)
Grigas, Johnny (1943 - 1947)
Hennessey, Tom (1965 - 1966)
Holley, Ken (1946 - 1946)
Jenkins, Ed (1972 - 1974)
Joyce, Bill (1920 - 1920)
Kennedy, Jimmy (1925 - 1925)
Kissell, Vito (1949 - 1950)
Kitteredge, Paul (1929 - 1929)
Koslowski, Stan (1946 - 1946)
Kozerski, Bruce (1984 - 1995)
Kucharski, Ted (1930 - 1930)
Landrigan, Jim (1947 - 1947)
Lentz, Jack (1967 - 1968)
Manfreda, Tony (1930 - 1930)
Mattiace, Frank (1987 - 1987)
McCabe, Jerry (1987 - 1988)
Mcgovern, Rob (1989 - 1992)
Mcgrath, Dick (1926 - 1926)
Mcmahon, Harry (1926 - 1926)
Mcnamara, Ed (1945 - 1945)
Monaco, Ray (1944 - 1945)
Moran, Jim (1935 - 1936)
Morris, Jon (1964 - 1978)
Natowich, Andy (1944 - 1944)
Nolan, John (1948 - 1950)
O’connor, Frank (1926 - 1926)
Osmanski, Bill (1939 - 1947)
Osmanski, Joe (1946 - 1949)
Porter, Rob (1987 - 1987)
Promuto, Vin (1960 - 1970)
Pyne, George (1931 - 1931)
Ray, Mike (1926 - 1926)
Riopel, Al (1925 - 1925)
Rovinski, Tony (1933 - 1933)
Simendinger, Ken (1926 - 1926)
Smith, Pete (1926 - 1926)
Snyder, Al (1964 - 1966)
Sullivan, Bob (1948 - 1948)
Sullivan, Bob (1947 - 1948)
Swiacki, Bill (1948 - 1952)
Titus, George (1946 - 1946)
Titus, Si (1940 - 1945)
Wallis, Jim (1926 - 1926)
Wilson, Joe (1973 - 1974)
Wizbicki, Alex (1947 - 1950)
Zeno, Joe (1942 - 1947)
Zyntell, Jim (1933 - 1935)</p>

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<p>Required Details, you should add Stephen Gannon to your NFL list. He was with the Giants for a short time. I think in 1981. I also think he should be nominated to the Hall of Fame. Just a thought!</p>

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<p>Holy Cross consistently ranks in the top 5 colleges in the nation for alumni giving. This year overall 53% of Holy Cross alumni contributed to the Holy Cross fund. By comparision mosty colleges have rates in the 15-25% range.</p>

<p><a href=“http://offices.holycross.edu/files/alumni/che-alumniparticipation.pdf[/url]”>http://offices.holycross.edu/files/alumni/che-alumniparticipation.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The history of the College of the Holy Cross was recorded in a book “Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 Anthony J. Kuzniewski S.J. (Hardcover)”</p>

<p>Holy Cross became a college in 1843, although it had existed before that as a boys boarding school. The author has woven the story of our country into the story of Holy Cross, and the result is fascinating. Consider that the first class was half African American and half Irish Catholic, at a time when New England was quite hostile to both groups. During the Civil War, a substantial minority of the student body fought for the confederacy! Time and again, Father K weaves the story of Holy Cross within the context of New England and America.</p>

<p>From this gem of a college, graduates have gone on to be Rhodes scholars, win the Nobel prize, run for President, ascend to the Supreme Court, and populate the professions, professional sports, science, media, law and business with great success, all the while as “men and women for others”. This is quite the story!</p>

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<p>Robert Joseph “Bob” Cousy (born August 9, 1928) is a retired American professional basketball player. The 6’1" (1.85-m), 175-pound (79.4-kg) Cousy played point guard with the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Boston Celtics from 1951 to 1963 and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1969–70 season. Cousy first demonstrated his basketball abilities while playing for his high school varsity team in his junior year. He obtained a scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross, where he led the Crusaders to berths in the 1948 and 1950 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament and was named an NCAA All-American for three seasons. Cousy was initially drafted as the third overall pick in the first round of the 1950 NBA Draft by the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, but after he refused to report with the Blackhawks, he was picked up by the Boston Celtics. Cousy had a highly successful career with the Celtics, winning six championship rings, being voted into 13 All-Star and 12 All-NBA First and Second Teams and winning the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 1957.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross is one of only 48 colleges and universities (out of more than 4,000 in the country) to evaluate applicants independent of their ability to pay - and to meet their full demonstrated need once admitted. If a student has met the high standards required for acceptance, he/she will be admitted and will be given the aid needed to make attending affordable.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross won the 1952 NCAA College Baseball World Series, beating the University of Missouri 8-4. To date, the 1952 Crusaders remain the only college team from the Northeast (New England and Midatlantic) to ever win the College World Series.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross’s Gordie Lockbaum is widely acknowledged as the last major college football program player to regularly play both offense and defense. Lockbaum finished third in the 1987 Heisman Trophy balloting, after finishing fifth in 1986.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross has a long history with the famous Shriver family.</p>

<p>The late Eunice Kennedy Shriver is a former Holy Cross trustee and honorary degree recipient in 1979 and of R. Sargent Shriver, who received an honorary degree in 1986. His sister Maria Shriver received an honorary degree in 1998. Mark Shriver ’86, vice president and managing director of Save the Children, is the son of the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver and R. Sargent Shriver.</p>

<p>At the request of the Shriver family, Fr. McFarland S.J. president of Holy Cross is in Maryland today for Sargent Shriver’s funeral Mass. R.I.P. He was a great man.</p>

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<p>The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the United States Congress on members of the United States Armed Forces. Holy Cross graduates number among the top colleges in the nation for the number of Medal of Honor Recipients, very impressive for the tiny school size of 2900 students.</p>

<p>West Point: 92
Annapolis:74
Harvard: 18
U of Washington:7
Virginia Tech:7
Virginia Military Institute: 7
Texas A&M: 7
Princeton: 5
Holy Cross: 3
Dartmouth: 3
and one each at: Columbia, Notre Dame, Rutgers, The Citadel, US Air Force Academy and the US Coast Guard Academy.</p>

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<p>CROSS SIGNALS
The gambit is actually listed in the Holy Cross playbook as “Kickoff Return Touchdown,” and it gave the Crusaders an unbelievable 30-26 win—their first of a so far disappointing season—over Princeton. With two seconds left at Princeton’s Palmer Stadium, the Tigers’ Chris Lutz, who had just kicked a 35-yard field goal, apparently to give his team a 26-24 comeback victory, had his kick fielded at the 23-yard line by Holy Cross’s Darin Cromwell. Cromwell started toward the left sideline, trailed by Tim Donovan. Just as Cromwell was about to be tackled at the Crusader 42 by Princeton’s Brian Wietharn, he pitched back to Donovan, who used his 4.48 speed to race into the end zone past the momentarily stunned Princeton defense. That bit of razzle-dazzle marked the first time a Division I-AA game has ever been won in the final seconds by a kickoff return for a touchdown. “It’s a play we work on in practice,” said Holy Cross coach Mark Duffner. “We could probably do it 100 times and it would never work again.”</p>

<p>Read more: [College</a> Football - 10.03.88 - SI Vault](<a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067827/2/index.htm#ixzz1Eyanfus7]College”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1067827/2/index.htm#ixzz1Eyanfus7)</p>

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<p>Bob Cousy recalls his national title with Holy Cross</p>

<p>Bob Cousy won six NBA titles with the Boston Celtics, made the All-Star team 13 times and was the league MVP once. But many forget that he played college ball at Holy Cross and was part of a national championship team. It was probably the only time Cousy was simply a member of a championship team—he scored two points in Holy Cross’ 58-47 win against Oklahoma on March 25, 1947, when the tournament consisted of just eight teams. He recalled that collegiate experience with Sporting News.</p>

<p>To me, what that Holy Cross team did is something that remains unparalleled in college sports history. Here is this tiny New England school—we had 2,400 students—going into a sold-out Madison Square Garden and winning the tournament. We beat Navy, we beat City College, a powerhouse at that time, and we beat Oklahoma for the championship.</p>

<p>Read more: [Bob</a> Cousy recalls his national title with Holy Cross - NBA - Sporting News](<a href=“http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-03-18/bob-cousy-recalls-his-national-title-with-holy-cross#ixzz1HKXIYwmK]Bob”>http://aol.sportingnews.com/nba/story/2011-03-18/bob-cousy-recalls-his-national-title-with-holy-cross#ixzz1HKXIYwmK)</p>

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<p>Twenty-six years after it was packed in storage, folks at Holy Cross discovered a stained-glass image of Bob Cousy that once graced the walls at the old Basketball Hall of Fame. Plans are being made to display the 10-foot tall, 2 1/2-foot wide window.</p>

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<p>Center Jon Morris '64, the former Holy Cross standout who played for the Patriots from 1964-74, has been selected for induction into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame. </p>

<p>Morris’ selection was made by the newly formed Senior Committee. Morris will be joined this year as an inductee by one of three yet-to-be-announced finalists. </p>

<p>A member of the Patriots’ 50th anniversary team, 35th anniversary team, and 1960s all-decade team, Morris was a six-time AFL all-star. He had been a finalist for induction in 2008, 2009 and 2010. </p>

<p>[Welcome</a> to Pats Hall, Jon Morris - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4694307/welcome-to-pats-hall-jon-morris]Welcome”>Welcome to Pats Hall, Jon Morris - ESPN - New England Patriots Blog- ESPN)</p>

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<p>NCAA Runs by New England teams:</p>

<p>U Conn - 1999 - 2004 NCAA Champions
Boston College - 1994 Elite Eight Lost to Florida
Holy Cross - 1947 NCAA champions
Northeastern - 1982 lost to Villanova 76 - 72 in the second round</p>

<p>Source: [BostonHerald.com</a> - Blogs: Connelly’s Top Ten](<a href=“http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/michael_connelly/]BostonHerald.com”>http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sports/michael_connelly/)</p>

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<p>Holy Cross has amazing alumni support. More than half of Holy Cross’s 32,000 alumni give to the college each year. That figure far exceeds the national average alumni-participation rate of 10 percent and is one of the highest rates of alumni giving for colleges that report the figures. </p>

<p>[5</a> Colleges That Inspire Alumni Giving, and How They Do It - Fund Raising - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“5 Colleges That Inspire Alumni Giving, and How They Do It”>5 Colleges That Inspire Alumni Giving, and How They Do It)</p>

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<p>The College of the Holy Cross turns 168 today. Benedict Fenwick laid the cornerstone of Fenwick Hall on June 21, 1843. On a bright, sunny day, a special train conveyed the dedicating party from Boston to Worcester. The group included the bishop and twelve priests and “a large concourse of the citizens of Boston and several distinguished strangers.” Music for the occasion was provided by the local chapter of the Catholic Temperance Society with “Hail Columbia” and “Adeste Fideles.” The Stars and Stripes waved that day “triumphantly on the Alpine like heights of the romantic site.” A large wooden cross had been erected near the building site to lend a backdrop to the festivities.</p>

<p>Fenwick prayed: “In the faith of Jesus Christ we lay this first stone on this foundation in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, that true faith may flourish here, and the fear of God, and fraternal affection; and may this place be devoted to invoking and praising the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,…”</p>

<p>Afterwards, Francis Dzierozynski, head of the American Jesuits, reported to the father general of the Jesuits in Rome: "We have achieved prodigies! It pleases me to send you news of ‘the Catholic College of the Holy Cross of the Society of Jesus’–in the midst of Yankees!</p>

<p>A toast today to Holy Cross: AD MULTOS ANNOS!</p>

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<p>BOSTON – Thursday, August 4, 2011 – Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick today announced that he will appoint Richard A. Davey, Holy Cross class of 1995, as Secretary and CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) effective September 1st. Davey will replace outgoing MassDOT Secretary and CEO Jeffrey Mullan, who last month announced his decision to resign in order to return to the private sector.</p>

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<p>Holy Cross has more people in the US Senate and House, proportionately, than any other college or university in the country. </p>

<p>1% of all CEOs of major corporations in the country are Holy Cross alumni. </p>

<p>3 of the 159 medical schools in the country are headed by Holy Cross grads.</p>

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<p>In the latest James Patterson novel, “Kill Me If You Can”. The main character is at an Internet cafe, and “Three guys in Holy Cross sweatshirts were standing outside”.</p>