Holy Cross Crusaders NCAA Football News

The NCAA football playoffs get under way on Saturday with two Cornwall products on the roster of the University of New Hampshire.

With one picture-perfect spiral that knifed 31 yards through an angry wind and wound up in the arms of wideout Tyler Purvis late in the first half, Kyle Smith broke Pat Devlin's state record for career passing yards.

Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph, the active FCS leader in total offense, looks to rack up the yards when the Crusaders play at Villanova Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs.

Working without the benefit of athletic scholarships, Holy Cross football coach Tom Gilmore follows a simple formula when trying to build his team.

The Patriot League's four weekly awards were divided among two schools. Bucknell claimed both the Male and Female Swimmer of the Week awards, while Army swept the diving accolades.

Old Dominion quarterback Thomas DeMarco said after Saturday's 42-35 victory over VMI that he intends to spend the next week "in an ice bath." ODU's sophomore quarterback, who transferred in from a junior college in California last winter, finished the season with 21 touchdown passes and 17 rushing touchdowns as he accounted for 230 points.

Ten-time champion and No. 1-ranked Mount Union grabbed one of four top seeds in the 32-team NCAA Division III field announced Sunday.

You would have to think that this time of year in the Football Championship Subdivision that Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 1970s hit "Takin' Care Of Business" would be in high rotation on the iPods of teams near the top of the top-25. Taking care of business is exact what a number of teams did over the weekend as the regular season inched a little ...

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this With an 11-0 record and Wyoming Valley Conference championship to its credit, the Coughlin Crusaders turned their attention to winning the Eastern Conference title.

Pottsville quarterback Matt Shields fumbles as he's hit by a host of Wilson players in Saturday's District 11 Class AAA playoff game.

Jonathan Baldwin made two exceptional catches that allowed No. 8 Pittsburgh to open up an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter, and the Panthers needed nearly every point, holding off visiting Notre Dame , 27-22, on Saturday.

Dominic Randolph threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, helping Holy Cross hold off Lafayette 28-26 to clinch the Patriot Football League title on Saturday.

It's another boffo morning in the dusty, cramped football offices on the second floor of the Holy Cross Field House - a building that served as an airplane hangar in Davisville, R.I., during World War II.

Lehigh's BJ Benning sacks Fordham quarterback John Skelton in last year's meeting between the two teams at Goodman Stadium.

It has come down to this, the four perennial favorites in Patriot League football: Lafayette and Holy Cross, unbeaten in league games; Colgate and Lehigh, each with one loss.

JAMES McLaughlin hit all five goals - including two penalty kicks - as Mosside dumped Richill out of the Irish Cup on Saturday.

Three Patriot League Football student-athletes received ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District honors on Thursday, as selected by CoSIDA .

Lehigh University coach Andy Coen claims game is a must win if team hopes to continue competing for league title.

When Aaron Jones arrived on campus at the College of Holy Cross, it didn't take him very long to figure out his role on the football team.

John Skelton's 67th and final pass of a very long afternoon hit his receiver in the hands but quickly thudded to the turf in the end zone.