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2014 Holy Cross Crusaders football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ16241992 ↗
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The 2014 Holy Cross Crusaders football team represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 11th-year head coach Tom Gilmore and played their home games at Fitton Field. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 4–8, 2–4 in Patriot League play to finish in a tie for fifth place.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2014 Holy Cross Crusaders football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Holy, Cross and Crusaders, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Holy, Cross and Crusaders is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2014 Holy Cross Crusaders football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.