In their fifth and final year under head coach Rick E. Carter, the Crusaders compiled an 4–6–1 record.
Leo Carlin, Ed Kutschke and Tom Patton were the team captains.
This would be Holy Cross' final year as an independent, before joining the Colonial League.
Colgate was the only future league football opponent on the Crusaders' 1985 schedule.
Holy Cross played its home games at Fitton Field on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.