Boston College Eagles
| Boston College Eagles | |
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| University | Boston College |
| Conference |
Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey East Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Brad Bates |
| Location | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts |
| Varsity teams | 29 |
| Football stadium | Alumni Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Conte Forum |
| Ice hockey arena | Kelley Rink |
| Baseball stadium | Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at John Shea Field |
| Mascot |
Baldwin the Eagle Welles |
| Nickname | Eagles |
| Fight song | For Boston |
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
| Website | bceagles |
The Boston College Eagles are the athletic teams representing Boston College. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level for football), primarily competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
The Eagle nickname and mascot for Boston College's teams were given by Rev. Edward McLaughlin. Fr. McLaughlin, incensed at a Boston newspaper cartoon depicting the champion BC track team as a cat licking clean a plate of its rivals, penned a passionate letter to the student newspaper, The Heights, in the newspaper's first year in 1920. "It is important that we adopt a mascot to preside at our pow-wows and triumphant feats," wrote Fr. McLaughlin. "And why not the Eagle, symbolic of majesty, power, and freedom?
The Boston College mascot is Baldwin the Eagle, an American bald eagle whose name is a pun derived from the bald head of the eagle and the word "win."
The school colors are maroon and gold. The fight song, "For Boston", was composed by T.J. Hurley, Class of 1885, and is America's oldest college fight song.
The Boston College sponsors teams in eleven men's, fourteen women's, and two coed NCAA sanctioned sports.
Men's Intercollegiate Sports
Women's Intercollegiate Sports
Coed Intercollegiate Sports
The Eagles compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The women's rowing team competes in the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (EAWRC) as well as the ACC. The men's and women's ice hockey teams compete in Hockey East. Skiing and sailing are also non-ACC. Boston College is one of only 15 universities in the country offering NCAA Division I football (Football Bowl Subdivision), Division I men's and women's basketball, and Division I hockey.
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