The 1908 Holy Cross football team was an

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team that represented the

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in the

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. In their second year under head coach Timothy F. Larkin, the team compiled a 4–4 record. Daniel J. Triggs was the team captain. After three years of sharing its home field with the college's baseball team, Holy Cross' football team moved its home games to a new stadium, also called

Fitton Field Fitton Field is a football stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts, primarily used for College of the Holy Cross sporting events. The stadium opened in 1908 as the official home for the Holy Cross Crusaders football team. Before that, most games we ...

, beyond the baseball team's right-field fence. Mayor James Logan was present to blow the first whistle at the September 25 debut of the new football stadium on the college campus in

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