By Dan Shaughnessy
Boston Globe
Most of them have turned 70 years old. Like almost everyone else in America, they practice social distancing and miss the daily box scores.
But the aging men who played on the Holy Cross football team in 1969 understand what is happening more than most because they lived through something similar a half-century ago when their season was canceled after 90 players and coaches tested positive for hepatitis A. The '69 Crusaders finished 0-2 and spent the balance of their season quarantined in Hanselman Hall near the top of Pakachoag Hill. For many, it meant their final days of football were erased by a virus.
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